[...]... Given the scarcity of land and the very high level of rural poverty, what is mainly needed if poverty is to be reduced is increased agricultural productivity To neglect the development of agriculture and rural areas in this situation would be to treat poverty as a secondary issue For the next generation poverty reduction will be achieved primarily through agricultural and rural development, since some... German development cooperation practitioners and within the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) that there is again growing recognition and awareness in both German and international development cooperation of the pivotal role that agricultural and rural development have to play in poverty reduction The international debate embracing the World Bank, the regional development. .. quantitative cross-section analyses make it clear that poverty reduction requires both agricultural and rural development measures by central and subnational government and the private sector and an appropriate agricultural policy environment Despite this, donors’ material efforts and recipients’ Preface xxi policies have largely ignored agriculture and rural areas since about 1980 To correct the resulting... Economic Development MFEPD Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Development MINMEC Ministerial Members of Executive Council MLGH Ministry of Local Government and Housing MLGPA Ministry of Local Government and Provincial Affairs MLGTP Ministry of Local Government and Town Planning MLRRD Ministry of Lands, Resettlement and Rural Development MOL Ministry of Lands MPACD Ministry of Provincial Affairs and. .. early phase urban and industrial development depend on the agricultural sector’s social transformation function and on its market and factor contributions and are thus closely linked to agricultural growth An increase in total agricultural productivity (through technical progress and investment) is the key to poverty reduction It leads to rising wages and ground rents in real terms and – depending on... SARD Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development SIDA Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency SIP Sector Investment Programme SME small and medium-sized enterprises SNRD Sector Network Rural Development SWAP Sector Wide Approach Abbreviations xxvii TOT Terms of Trade UAA Utilized Agricultural Area UN United Nations UNCED United Nations Conference on Environment and Development UNCOD... Reconstruction and Development Part A Approaches to poverty reduction through agricultural development Hartmut Brandt Fine words about a Doha development round ring hollow and appear cynical in the face of foot-dragging on reform of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy; and the US farm bill, which further entrenches protectionism The consequences for Africa are literally a matter of life and death Niall... to switch funds and alter the national and international agricultural policy environment but also to adopt a more efficient organizational and institutional approach, for the inefficiency of centrally guided agricultural and rural development measures in earlier conceptual phases has been very sobering In view of the experience of past development policy, and especially the constraints and weaknesses... Cooperation and Development) BMVEL Bundesministerium für Verbraucherschutz, Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (Federal Ministry for Consumer-protection, Nutrition and Agriculture) CARD Co-ordinated Agricultural and Rural Development Programme CAS Country Assistance Strategy CBO Community Based Organization CCD United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification CCD Cabinet Committee on Development CD Community Development. .. Development LME Liberal Market Economy LP Linear Programming M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MAFF Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries MCDSS Ministry of Community Development and Social Services MCT Ministry of Communication and Transport MDGs Millennium Development Goals MENR Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources MFA Ministry of Food and Agriculture of Ghana MFED Ministry of Finance and . Poverty Orientated Agricultural and Rural Development Hartmut Brandt and Uwe Otzen Routledge Studies in Development and Society Poverty Orientated Agricultural and Rural Development Hartmut Brandt and. 1982 and 1986 he spent four years in Zimbabwe as an agricultural and rural development advisor to the Ministry of Lands, Resettlement and Rural Development in Harare. Poverty Orientated Agricultural. analysis and innovations 97 12 Growth and poverty reduction 101 12.1 Economic growth and poverty reduction 102 12.2 Agricultural development and poverty reduction 105 13 The problems posed by poverty- oriented