Poverty alleviation through agricultural projects

Of the estimated 1 billion people in the developing world who survive in conditions of extreme poverty, 70 percent live in Asia. The majority of these people live in rural areas and agriculture is their main occupation. Most of the rural poor are small and marginal farmers, landless agricultural wor...

• Main Authors: D'Silva, Emmanuel H, Bysouth, Kaye
• Corporate Author: Banco Mundial. Instituto de Desarrollo Económico
• Format: Book
• Published: Washington, D.C. World Bank. Economic Developemnt Institute 1992
• Series: An EDI policy seminar report no. 30
• Subjects: ALIVIO DE LA POBREZA; PROYECTOS AGRICOLAS; POBREZA; DESARROLLO RURAL; PAISES EN DESARROLLO; MITIGACION DE LA POBREZA; REDUCCION DE LA POBREZA; TERCER MUNDO

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• 1. Introduction and overview
• 2. Review of Asian experience in poverty alleviation
• 3. Macroeconomic policies and poverty
• 4. Agricultural planning and sector policies
• 5. Poverty and access to resources
• 6. Gender and rural poverty
• 7. Beneficiary participation: involving the poor in project design and implementation
• 8. Replication of successful projects
• 9. Seminar conclusions and recommendations
• Bibliography
• Annexes: A. List of participants, resource persons
• B. Seminar program
• C. Participants' action plans