Multifunctional Agriculture: Agriculture Renewal as a Modern Paradigm for Agriculture and Rural Development

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

Agriculture, development and malaria in rural Uganda

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SCP in Agriculture and Rural Development

Introduction Achieving more sustainable consumption and production in the agricultural sector requires a coherent response to the intimate linkages between agricultural production, agro-ecosystems and the people who rely on them, and also the concerns and preferences of a growing number of consumers. Less input intensive and more resource efficient agriculture offers a means to strengthen the c...

Sector-wide Approaches for Agriculture and Rural Development Policy Sector-wide Approaches for Agriculture and Rural Development Policy

1 Sector-wide approaches 2 Agricultural and rural SWAps 3 Why an IFAD policy on agricultural and rural SWAps? 4 EXPERIENCES AND LESSONS LEARNED 7 The link between PRSPs and SWAps 8 The special challenges of the agricultural sector 8 Ownership of agricultural/rural SWAps 9 Agricultural/rural SWAps and decentralization 10 Monitoring the impact of agricultural/rural SWAps 11 The financing of agric...

Northern Region Agriculture & Rural Development: What Futures?

The countryside and its supposed bedrock, farming, are commonly supposed to be under threat. What might the future hold? This article explores the major pressures and apparent opportunities facing agriculture and rural development in the Northern Region. It begins (section I) with a brief review of the recent economic history of the agricultural sector in Britain, drawing out the implications f...

Agriculture for development: new paradigm and options for success

The role of agriculture as an instrument for industrialization had been rigorously conceptualized in the 1960s and 1970s under the classical paradigm of development economics. After many implementation failures under import substitution industrialization policies and protracted neglect of agriculture under the policies of the Washington Consensus that followed the debt crisis, agriculture has g...