tailieunhanh - Poverty Orientated Agricultural and Rural Development

Over the last twenty years the proportion of development cooperation resources earmarked for agricultural development has dwindled to between 6 and 7 per cent of total bi- and multilateral Official Development Assistance. This is despite the fact that 80 per cent of the world’s poor live in rural agricultural areas, and that the poor are disproportionately affected when political, military and natural events lead to regional or global food shortages. | Poverty Orientated Agricultural and Rural Development Hartmut Brandt and Uwe otzen Routledge Taylor Francis Croup Poverty Orientated Agricultural and Rural Development Over the last twenty years the proportion of development cooperation resources earmarked for agricultural development has dwindled to between 6 and 7 per cent of total bi- and multilateral Official Development Assistance. This is despite the fact that 80 per cent of the world s poor live in rural agricultural areas and that the poor are disproportionately affected when political military and natural events lead to regional or global food shortages. 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. Hartmut Brandt began his professional education with three years of farming practice 1960-62 and continued with eight years of academic study and research in agricultural sciences and economics at Kiel University Technical University of Berlin and Makerere University College Kampala. Thereafter followed 32 years of applied research consulting work and postgraduate training based at the Deutsche Institut fur Entwicklungspolitik DIE . Dr Brandt retired in 2002 but continues his consultative activities. Uwe Otzen is senior research fellow at the Deutsche Institut fur Entwicklungspolitik DIE . He studied international agricultural science at the Technical University of Berlin where he obtained his PhD in 1973. He worked four years in Malawi as agricultural consultant and project