Hartmut Brandt, Uwe Otzen

Poverty Orientated Agricultural and Rural Development

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Produktbeschreibung

Brandt and Otzen's key book undertakes a wide-ranging conceptual reorientation of development cooperation, criticizing the current orthodoxy and its bias towards urban areas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9780415368537
• ISBN-10: 0415368537
• Artikelnr.: 21397251

Autorenporträt

Hartmut Brandt began his professional education with three years of farming practice (1960-62) and continued with eight years of academic study and research in agricultural sciences and economics at Kiel University, Technical University of Berlin and Makerere University College, Kampala. Thereafter, followed thirty-two years of applied research, consulting work and postgraduate training based at the German Development Institute (GDI). Dr Brandt retired in 2002 but continues his consultative activities. Uwe Otzen is senior research fellow at the German Development Institute (GDI). He studied international agricultural science at the Technical University of Berlin, where he obtained his PhD in 1973. He worked four years in Malawi as agricultural consultant and project manager for a regional development project of the GTZ, the German Agency for Technical Cooperation, before he joined the German Development Institute in 1977, where he worked as research fellow in the Africa Department. Between 1982 and 1986 he spent four years in Zimbabwe as agricultural and rural development advisor to the Ministry of Lands, Resettlement and Rural Development in Harare.

Inhaltsangabe

Part A: Approaches to Poverty Reduction through Agricultural Development
1. Background to the Problem: World Food Question 2. Motive for the Study:
New Urban Bias in Development Cooperation 3. Poverty Reduction in the
Conceptual Experience of Agricultural Development 4. Economic Growth,
Agricultural Development, Poverty Reduction 5. Fazit Part B: Institutional
and Organizational Ways for Rural Communities of Sub-Saharan Africa to
Reduce Poverty 1. Global Framework for Sustainable and Poverty-Reducing
Agricultural and Rural Development 2. Realistic Problem-Solving Approaches
3. Importance for Development Policy of Preconditions for and Effects of
Decentralization 5. Decentralization and Development Cooperation Priorities
5. Institutional and Organizational Implementation Options 6. Summary