Chapter 1: Human Misery
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Chapter 10:
Agricultural and Rural
Development
Contribution of Agriculture
Produce
– food to meet basic nutritional needs
– raw materials to help the industry
– cash crops for export
Create employment and income for a
large number of people
Contribution of Agriculture
Create demand for finished consumer
and capital goods
Employ a large percentage of the labor
force
Generate a large percentage of the GDP
Performance of Agriculture
Per Capita food production in 1970-94:
Remained stable in the Middle East (excluding
Israel)
Index of Per Capita Food Production
Reasons for Poor Performance
Insufficient of investment in rural areas:
–
Human capital (education, nutrition, health)
–
Social capital (roads, homes, electricity, irrigation)
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Land: water supply, fertilization, mechanization
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Technological advancement: (high yield seed
variety, better planting methods)
Reasons for Poor Performance
Unequal land distribution
–
Large & powerful landowners
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Small family farmers and peasants
–
Sharecroppers, landless peasants, and farm
workers
Agricultural Dualism
Commercial farming:
Very large landholdings
Massive government subsidies
Subsistence farming:
Small family farms
Sharecropers
Landless peasants
Agricultural Dualism
Problems:
Poverty
Land and income disparity
Rapid population growth
Growing number of landless peasants
Lack of government programs, helping
small farmers
Massive R-U migration
Role of Women
Daily tasks:
Home-making, child rearing
Food processing for consumption and
storage
Farming: weeding, harvesting, raising
livestock
Role of Women
Cash crop labor
Generate income through cottage industry
60-80% of farm labor in Asia
Subject to gender discrimination in education
and employment
Rural Development Strategies
Technological change and innovation:
Modern irrigation structure
Modern mechanical and chemical inputs
High seed varieties
Modern farming techniques
Appropriate technology: labor-intensive
Rural Development
Institutional and Pricing Policies
Parity pricing: equalization of unit farm
and nonfarm prices
Distribution systems and farmers
cooperatives
Pattern of Land Ownership in ME & NA
Private land owned by landlords and peasants
Public land owned by the government
Land under religious trust
Rural Development Strategies
Land Reform:
Distribute fertile land between small farmers and
landless peasants
Compensate owners for loss of land
Provide supportive services to help increase production
Establish rural industries and jobs to curb R-U migration