Agriculture and Development.

Agricultural growth: why and how
Debates about the means to social and economic development have brought the role of agriculture into question. Food production cannot be neglected; the world population still increases which implies that more and more people are to be fed. Moreover, an efficient rural economy can promote poverty reduction as well as the achievement of livelihood security. In his unimodal strategy to agricultural development, John Mellor has argued that if the rural economy increases its productivity and if gains are well distributed, then the demand for non-agricultural pr…