TY - JOUR
AU - Martin, Frédéric
AB - Book Review rural credit; 4) involve farmers in the design Sustainability, Growth, and Poverty of technologies; 5) improve extension cover- Alleviation. A Policy and Agroecological age; and 6) increase the security and trans- Perspective ferability of resource tenure. The second part of the book analyzes Stephen A. Vosti and Thomas Reardon case studies drawn from Africa, Latin IFPRI, Johns Hopkins University Press, America and Asia. The authors discriminate Baltimore, 1997 these developing contexts by agroecological zone (arid and semiarid tropics, humid and In September 1999, a conference organized subhumid tropics, tropical highlands) but by the International Food Policy Research also recognize that policies, institutions, Institute (IFPRI) and the Deutsche Stiftung technologies, and population pressure vary fur internationale Entwicklung (DES) was from one place to another. In addition, rural held in Feldafing, Germany. This book households and communities significantly includes revised papers presented at this con- influence growth, poverty, and sustainability ference, complemented by other commis- through their decisions about output mix, sioned papers. It deals with the so-called land use, agricultural technology and land “critical triangle” of links among the sustain- investment decisions. This approach allows able use of resources, agricultural growth, the contributors to provide a good coverage 
TI - Sustainability, Growth, and Poverty Alleviation. A policy and Agroecological Perspective
JF - Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue Canadienne D'Agroeconomie
DO - 10.1111/j.1744-7976.1999.tb00391.x
DA - 1999-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/sustainability-growth-and-poverty-alleviation-a-policy-and-bDTqiDcNk2
SP - 199
EP - 200
VL - 47
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -