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020 _a9781139003759 (ebook)
020 _z9780521888943 (hardback)
020 _z9780521717694 (paperback)
040 _aUkCbUP
_beng
_erda
_cUkCbUP
_dBD-SySUS.
050 0 0 _aHD1415
_b.T73 2011
082 0 0 _a338.1
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100 1 _aTsakok, Isabelle,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aSuccess in Agricultural Transformation :
_bWhat It Means and What Makes It Happen /
_cIsabelle Tsakok.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2011.
300 _a1 online resource (424 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520 _aTo lift and keep millions out of poverty requires that smallholder agriculture be productive and profitable in the developing world. Do we know how to make this happen? Researchers and practitioners still debate how best to do so. The prevailing methodology, which claims causality from measures of statistical significance, is inductive and yields contradictory results. In this book, instead of correlations, Isabelle Tsakok looks for patterns common to cases of successful agricultural transformation and then tests them against other cases. She proposes a hypothesis that five sets of conditions are necessary to achieve success. She concludes that government investment in and delivery of public goods and services sustained over decades is essential to maintaining these conditions and thus successfully transform poverty-ridden agricultures. No amount of foreign aid can substitute for such sustained government commitment. The single most important threat to such government commitment is subservience to the rich and powerful minority.
650 0 _aAgricultural productivity
650 0 _aAgriculture and state
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521888943
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139003759
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c38067
_d38067