SUCCESS IN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION by Isabelle Tsakok, Bruce L. Gardner ( 9780521888943 )

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Title:

SUCCESS IN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION

By:

Isabelle Tsakok, Bruce L. Gardner

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0521888948

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9780521888943

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

8 August, 2011

Pages:

424

Description:

Isabelle Tsakok looks for patterns common to cases of successful agricultural transformation and then tests them against other cases.

Synopsis:

To 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.

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47 b/w illus. 1 table

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Cambridge University Press

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