Description
This article discusses the idea that poverty should be oriented towards agricultural and rural development, in order to help alleviate poverty across the world. It criticizes the orthodoxy of development cooperation, which is biased towards urban areas, and argues that agricultural and rural development measures need to be implemented by both central and subnational governments, aid agencies, and the private sector.
Undertakes a reorientation of development cooperation, criticizing the orthodoxy and its bias towards urban areas, and arguing that in order to effectively alleviate poverty across the world, agricultural and rural development measures need to be implemented both by central and subnational governments, aid agencies, and the private sector.