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

Author Rodolfo C. Severino

Publisher Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

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Author

Rodolfo C. Severino

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Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

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Copyright

2007

ISBN13

9789812304810

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eBook

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College Freshman - College Senior

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Overview

Presents a reinvigorated agenda on agricultural and rural development in Asia both for research and policy discussions in the coming decades.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Other Front Matter.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
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.
12: The Supermarket Revolution with Asian Characteristics.
Index.
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