The Role of Agriculture in Poverty Reduction - An Empirical Perspective
By L. Christiaensen, L. Demery, Jesper J. Kuhl. 2006
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The relative contribution of a sector to poverty reduction is shown to depend on its direct and indirect growth effects as well as its participation effect. The paper assesses how these effects compare between agriculture and non-agriculture by reviewing the literature and by analyzing cross-country national accounts and poverty data from household surveys. Special attention is given to Sub-Saharan Africa. While the direct growth effect of agriculture on poverty reduction is likely to be smaller than that of non-agriculture (though not because of inherently inferior productivity growth), the indirect growth effect of agriculture (through its linkages with nonagriculture) appears substantial and at least as large as the reverse feedback effect. The poor participate much more in growth in the agricultural sector, especially in low-income countries, resulting in much larger poverty reduction impact. Together, these findings support the overall premise that enhancing agricultural productivity is the critical entry-point in designing effective poverty reduction strategies, including in Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, to maximize the poverty reducing effects, the right agricultural technology and investments must be pursued, underscoring the need for much more country specific analysis of the structure and institutional organization of the rural economy in designing poverty reduction strategies.
Subfields: Business and International Management, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science
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- Developmental Drivers of Nutritional Change: A Cross-Country Analysis (2013, background): “10 A key advantage of adding the country-specific trend effect is that it forces identification of the coefficients from the within country variation, strengthening any results because of the much lower signal-to-noise ratio (Christiaensen et al., 2011). However, in instances when the sample size is”
- Responding to global change: A theory of change approach to making agricultural research for development outcome-based (2017, background): “The role of agriculture in reducing poverty is relatively well studied; enhancing agriculture is often seen as a critical entry-point in designing effective poverty reduction strategies (Christiaensen et al., 2006; Alston, 2010), with agricultural research for development (AR4D) a key mechanism.”