Reasserting the Rural Development Agenda: Lessons Learned and Emerging Challenges in Asia

✍ Scribed by Arsenio Molina Balisacan (editor); Nobuhiko Fuwa (editor)

• Publisher: ISEAS Publishing
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 434
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The agricultural sector's perceived importance in the international development circle waned dramatically after the 1980s, and investments in rural development and agricultural research and development declined sharply. This volume reasserts the role of agricultural and rural development in the economic development debate. By revisiting the evolution of ideas, paradigms and empirical evidence, and by drawing on Asian experiences, the book intends to set a reinvigorated agenda on agricultural and rural development both for research and policy discussions in the coming decades. Written by internationally acknowledged research scholars, this book is helpful to a wide range of audience, including researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and students interested in rural development in Asia and its future evolutions.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
TABLES
FIGURES
PREFACE
CONTRIBUTORS
1 Challenges and Policy Options for Agricultural Development: Overview and Synthesis
2 The Economics of Agricultural Development: What Have We Learned?
3 The Role of Social Structures and Norms in Agricultural Development: African and East Asian Communities Compared
4 Food Security in a Globalised Setting
5 Poverty and Vulnerability
6 Asian Agricultural Development: From the Green Revolution to the Gene Revolution
7 Dryland Agriculture in Asia: Ideas, Paradigms and Policies
8 Establishing Efficient Use of Water Resources in Asia
9 Improving the Delivery of Extension Services to Rural People: New Perspectives
10 Land Tenure and Forest Resource Management in Asia
11 Globalisation and the Poverty- Environment Link in Asian Agriculture
INDEX