Strategies for the alleviation of rural poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean: smallholders and structural change in the brazilian economy opportunities in rural poverty alleviation
1992
Howe, G. | Goodman, D.
This is the third study planned by the Internatinal Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in collaboration with IICA, with the goal of defining strategies for alleviating rural poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean. This studies is designed to broaden understanding of the generation and persistance of rural poverty in the region, and of how political and macroeconomic contests directly affect the rural poor. The series also present examples of policies and strategies designed to ameliorate factors causing poverty, to tap the productive potential of the rural poor, and to promote the greatest possible participation in the benefits of a project by the poorest stratum of th rural population. The table of contents is: the economic and political context of agrarian transformation; the position of the small-scale producer in the agricutural sector; smallholdings and rural poverty; smallholder agricture in the northest, smallholders and the rural poor in natinal development; towards and IFAD strategy in Brazil, and two annexes on rural poverty and productiion relations and agricultural credit
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