Agricultural growth and investment options for poverty reduction in Rwanda

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Agricultural Growth

scholarly journals Rethinking Development Strategy –The Importance of the Rural Non Farm Economy in Growth and Poverty Reduction in Pakistan

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (Special Edition) ◽  
pp. 189-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sohail Jehangir Malik
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Investment Climate ◽  
Agricultural Growth ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
The 1960S

The structural transformation of Pakistan’s economy has not been accompanied by a concomitant decline in the proportion of labor employed in agriculture. While this transformation has resulted in a non-farm sector that is large and growing it has not lead to the rapid absorption of the pool of relatively low productivity labor away from the agriculture sector, as predicted by conventional development theory embodied in the models of the 1960s. Despite the obvious importance of the role of a vibrant rural non-farm economy (RNFE), and in particular, a vibrant non-farm services sector to address the challenges of poverty, food security, agricultural growth and rural development, this sector has received inadequate attention in the debate in Pakistan. Based on a review of literature and data from two large surveys – the Rural Investment Climate Survey of Pakistan 2005 and the Surveys of Domestic Commerce 2007 – this paper attempts to analyze the factors underlying the low level of development of the rural non farm economy and the potential role it can play in Pakistan’s economic development.

Agricultural Growth and Rural Poverty Reduction in India

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seema Bathla ◽  
Pramod Kumar Joshi ◽  
Anjani Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Rural Poverty ◽  
Agricultural Growth

scholarly journals Synergy or Trade-Off between Agricultural Growth and Nutrition Women’s Work and Care

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (4I-II) ◽  
pp. 897-913 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mysbah Balagamwala ◽  
Haris Gazdar ◽  
Hussain Bux Mallah
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Poor Growth ◽  
Agricultural Growth ◽  
Agricultural Work ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Growth And Nutrition ◽  
Nutrition Review ◽  
Nutritional Outcomes

This paper examines the implications of women‘s work in agriculture and children‘s nutritional outcomes in Pakistan. Agricultural growth is an important element of overall economic growth and poverty reduction. It is generally presumed that growth in agriculture will also lead to better nutrition through the higher availability of nutritious foods and increased incomes for the poor. Growth, however, might also imply changes in the amount of time and effort women expend in agricultural work. This may have positive outcomes for nutrition if women have access to their own income, but might also have negative consequences if women‘s agricultural work diminishes their ability to provide nutrition-related care for themselves and their children. The cotton sector which relies very largely on women‘s labour, particularly in harvesting [Siegmann and Shaheen (2008)], can serve as a key vantage point for observing the link between women‘s agricultural work, care and nutrition outcomes in Pakistan. We first set the context for our research by discussing the problem of under nutrition in Pakistan and why agriculture can play a role in improving nutritional outcomes (Section 2). In Section 3, we introduce the concept of care as it exists in the literature the determinants of nutrition review the existing evidence on the relationship between care and women‘s agricultural work. Empirical findings from qualitative research in a cotton-growing region in Pakistan are reported in Section 4. The paper concludes in Section 5 with discussion on how growth in agriculture can be made more inclusiv

scholarly journals Pakistan's Agriculture in the 21st Century

1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (4II) ◽  
pp. 245-256
Author(s):  
Rashid Faruqee
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Agricultural Growth ◽  
The Past ◽  
Resource Degradation ◽  
Degradation Failure ◽  
Productivity Increase ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Fertiliser Use ◽  
Future Growth

In Pakistan, agriculture, which accounts for more than 20 percent of GDP and provides more than 50 percent of jobs, has a special role to play in growth, poverty reduction, and environmental protectiOl'. Agricultural growth in the past thirty years has been impressive, at more than 3 percent a year. Sources of growth, however, have changed over the years-from the seed, fertiliser, and irrigation package of the 1960s, to intensification of water and fertiliser use in the 1970s, to improvements in crop management and incentives in the 1980s. Those sources of growth have all but run their course, and agriculture growth in the next century will depend on increasing productivity. At present there are clear signs of stagnation in productivity growth. In fact, total factor productivity, a good measure of overall productivity, may even have declined since the mid-1970s due to resource degradation, failure to adapt technical change, and poor incentives, among others causes. Future growth through productivity increase, however, will require major changes in systems, policies, and institutions for agriculture. These changes are crucial because agriculture in the next century will continue to be key in achieving growth with poverty alleviation and environmental protection.

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