"While the worlds of agriculture are vast, varied, and rapidly changing, with the right policies and supportive instruments at local, national, and global levels, today’s agriculture offers new opportunities to hundreds of millions of rural poor to move out of poverty. Pathways out of poverty open to them by agriculture include smallholder farming and animal husbandry, employment in the “new agriculture” of high-value products, and entrepreneurship and jobs in the emerging rural, nonfarm economy. In the 21st century, agriculture continues to be a fundamental instrument for sustaining development and poverty reduction.”
World Development Report 2008:
Agriculture for Development
The World Bank |
