| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 397 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-370) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. I. The many faces of agricultural transformation in and industrializing world and what it means -- pt. II. Success in agricultural transformation: what makes it happen? -- pt. III. Necessary conditions -- pt. IV. Necessary but not sufficient conditions? -- pt. V. Missing conditions -- pt. VI. The public foundations of private agriculture -- Appendix. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Agriculture -- Economic aspects.
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Agriculture -- Economic aspects. |
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Agricultural productivity.
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Agricultural productivity. |
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Agriculture and state.
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Agriculture and state. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tsakok, Isabelle. Success in agricultural transformation. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011 9780521888943 (DLC) 2011001822 (OCoLC)698029494 |
| ISBN |
9781139127073 (electronic book) |
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1139127071 (electronic book) |
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9781139003759 (electronic book) |
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1139003755 (electronic book) |
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1283314916 |
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9781283314916 |
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9780521888943 |
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0521888948 |
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9780521717694 |
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0521717698 |
| Standard No. |
9786613314918 |
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