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Agricultural Development and Economic Transformation

Promoting Growth with Poverty Reduction

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  • © 2017

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Authors:
  1. John W. Mellor

    1. Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

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  • Provides comprehensive and original coverage of agriculture’s key role in economic development
  • Focuses on the economic transformation of low- and middle-income countries
  • Draws from Mellor’s several decades of experience in international agricultural development
  • Features major broadening and quantification to Mellor’s acclaimed 1966 text

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-14

  3. Agriculture and the Economic Transformation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. The Economic Transformation

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      Pages 17-28

    3. Measuring the Impact of Agricultural Growth on Economic Transformation

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      Pages 29-46

    4. Poverty, Food Security, and Nutrition

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      Pages 47-60

    5. Capital Formation and the Exchange Rate

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      Pages 61-71

  4. Traditional Agriculture: The Base for Modernization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. The Farm, the Farmer, and Labor Supply

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      Pages 75-86

    3. Land and Land Tenure

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      Pages 87-99

  5. Modernization of the Small Commercial Farm

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. Government and the Institutions of Modernization

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      Pages 103-112

    3. Physical Infrastructure

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      Pages 113-122

    4. Rural Education and Health

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      Pages 123-133

    5. Prices and Price Policy

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      Pages 135-150

    6. Research and Extension

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      Pages 151-164

    7. Purchased Inputs

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      Pages 165-179

    8. Finance for the Small Commercial Farmer

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      Pages 181-193

    9. Cities, Consumption, and Marketing Dynamics

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      Pages 195-205

    10. The Role of Foreign Aid

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      Pages 207-220
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About this book

This book examines the role of agriculture in the economic transformation of developing low- and middle-income countries and explores means for accelerating agricultural growth and poverty reduction. In this volume, Mellor measures by household class the employment impact of alternative agricultural growth rates and land tenure systems, and impact on cereal consumption and food security. The book provides detailed analysis of each element of agricultural modernization, emphasizing the central role of government in accelerated growth in private sector dominated agriculture. The book differs from the bulk of current conventional wisdom in its placement of the non-poor small commercial farmer at the center of growth, and explains how growth translates into poverty reduction. This new book is a follow up to Mellor’s classic, prize-winning text, The Economics of Agricultural Development.


Listed as a Best Books of 2017: Economics by Financial Times.

Reviews

“The book offers a detailed roadmap for government-driven structural transformation via small-farm agriculture. The prose in the book is remarkably accessible to practitioners, students, and applied economists. … amount of detail Mellor offers from agricultural development in different developing countries is an achievement, and the book makes for an engaging read.” (Sumit Mishra, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Vol. 63 (2), 2019)

 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

    John W. Mellor

About the author

John W. Mellor is Professor Emeritus, Cornell University, USA, and President of John Mellor Associates, Inc., a policy consulting firm. He was previously Professor of Agricultural Economics, Economics and Asian Studies; Associate Director and Acting Director of the Center for International Studies, Cornell University; Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute; and Chief Economist of the United States Agency for International Development. He was the recipient of the Wihuri Prize (Finland) and the Presidential Award (The Reagan White House, USA) for efforts to alleviate hunger, and he is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Agricultural Economics Association. 

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