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Poverty orientated agricultural and rural development

by Hartmut Brandt

"Hartmut Brandt and Uwe Otzen's key book undertakes a wide-ranging conceptual reorientation of development cooperation, criticizing the current orthodoxy and its bias towards urban areas, and argues that in order to effectively alleviate poverty across the world, agricultural and rural development measures need to be implemented by central and subnational governments, aid agencies and the private sector. The authors investigate the world food question, the current pressures it is under and its link to rural poverty, and set out the policies that need to be undertaken to reduce global poverty."--Jacket.