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The Future of Family Farms in West Africa
Michael Mortimore
其他書名
What Can We Learn from Long-term Data?
出版International Institute for Environment and Development, Drylands Programme, 2003
ISBN18436948679781843694861
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=SGkdSgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Small-scale family farming which has supported West Africans for thousands of years may be newly vulnerable under conditions of open, competitive global markets and processes of globalisation which transfer economic advantage to the rich nations. Since the early 1960s, long-term data series have evolved relating to many critical parameters of development. This paper examines some of the series relating to agriculture, with a view to exposing major strengths (or weaknesses) of the family farming sector, i.e. smallholder farming and livestock keeping systems. Knowledge of the evolution of these systems will help identify appropriate policies for the future.