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African Agriculture and the World Bank: Development or Impoverishment? Policy Dialogue No. 1

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African Agriculture and the World Bank: Development or Impoverishment? Policy Dialogue No. 1 - Havnevik, Kjell, and Bryceson, Deborah, and Birgegard, Lars-Erik
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African smallholder family farming, the backbone of the continental economy throughout the colonial and early post-colonial period, has been destabilized and eroded over the past thirty years. Despite the World Bank's poverty alleviation concerns, agrarian livelihoods continue to unravel under the impact of economic liberalization and global value chains. Can African smallholders bounce back and compete? The World Development Report 2008 argues they can and must. How realistic is this given the history of World Bank ...

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African Agriculture and the World Bank: Development or Impoverishment? Policy Dialogue No. 1 2012, Nordic Africa Institute

ISBN-13: 9789171066084

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