Agriculture, Development and Urban Bias

By Dirk Bezemer, Derek Headey. 2007

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Agriculture and Development: A Brief Review of the Literature (2011, unknown): “Bezemer and Headet (2008) argue that public policies that actively support agriculture, such as pricing or support to agricultural research and extension, are a necessary prerequisite for agricultural growth, and that agricultural market liberalization has not benefited small farmers due to market…”
Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land (2013, background): “in the field of critical agrarian studies (Bernstein, 2010; Borras, 2009; White et al., 2012).”
Structural Transformation and Rural Change Revisited: Challenges for Late Developing Countries in a Globalizing World (2012, background): “In the case of agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa, Bezemer and Headey (2008) show how these external restrictions were endogenously exacerbated by a persistent urban bias in African domestic policy agendas.”
Developmental Drivers of Nutritional Change: A Cross-Country Analysis (2013, background): “6 Economic studies also typically suggest that agricultural income is particularly important for the world’s poor, most of whom are rural (Bezemer & Headey, 2008; World Bank, 2008).”
Strengthening Agricultural Innovation Capacity: Are Innovation Brokers the Answer? (2009, background): “…urgent in developing countries as agriculture remains a central element of the economy, and innovation is key to the agricultural growth needed to reduce poverty (Thomas & Slater, 2006; Bezemer & Headey, 2008). arrangements and discusses the role of policy in facilitating this emergence.”
Cities, Territories, and Inclusive Growth: Unraveling Urban–Rural Linkages in Chile, Colombia, and Mexico (2015, background): “9 While some literature points to the existence of urban biases in public investment decisions (Berdegue et al. , 2011; Bezemer & Headey, 2008; Eastwood & Lipton, 2000), others (Satterthwaite & Tacoli, 2006) point out that in situations of mutual interdependence between a city and its rural…”
Explaining agricultural productivity growth: an international perspective (2010, background): “1 See Bezemer and Headey (2008) for substantial documentation of the neglect of agricultural development by both foreign aid donors (including the World Bank) and developing country governments. Other important documents include the World Bank’s Rural Poverty Report (2003) and the 2008 World Develop”
The pattern of growth and poverty reduction in China (2009, background): “11 For a recent overview of this literature see Bezemer and Headey (2008).”