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Title Reasserting the rural development agenda : lessons learned and emerging challenges in Asia / Arsenio M. Balisacan, Nobuhiko Fuwa, editors
Published Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies ; Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines : Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 414 pages) : illustrations
Contents Challenges and policy options for agricultural development -- overview and synthesis -- Arsenio M. Balisacan and Nobuhiko Fuwa -- The economics of agricultural development: what have we learned? -- James Roumasset -- The role of social structures and norms in agricultural development: Africa and East Asian communities compared -- Yujiro Hayami -- Food security in a globalised setting -- Jock R. Anderson -- Poverty and vulnerability -- Arsenio M. Balisacan and Nobuhiko Fuwa -- Asian agricultural development: from the green revolution to the gene revolution -- Prabhu Pingali and Terri Raney -- Dryland agriculture in Asia: ideas, paradigms, and policies -- William D. Dar, M.C.S. Bantilan, P. Anand Babu, G.V. Anupama, H. Deepthi, and R. Padmaja -- Establishing efficient use of water resources in Asia -- Randolph Barker and Mark Rosegrant -- Improving the delivery of extension services to rural people: new perspectives -- Dina Umali-Deininger -- Land tenure and forest resource management in Asia -- Keijiro Otsuka -- Globalisation and the poverty-environment link in Asian Agriculture -- Ian Coxhead -- The supermarket revolution with Asian characteristics -- Thomas Reardon and C. Peter Timmer
Summary Presents a reinvigorated agenda on agricultural and rural development in Asia both for research and policy discussions in the coming decades
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Original: xx, 414 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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Subject Rural development -- Asia -- Congresses
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Asia -- Congresses
Rural poor -- Asia -- Congresses
Agriculture -- Economic aspects
Rural conditions
Rural development
Rural poor
SUBJECT Asia -- Rural conditions -- Congresses
Subject Asia
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Balisacan, A. M
Fuwa, Nobuhiko
ISBN 9789812304810
9812304819