Promoting Farm/Non-Farm Linkages for Rural Development - Case Studies from Africa and Latin America


Edited by
Benjamin Davis
Agriculture and Economic Development Analysis Division
FAO Economic and Social Department

Thomas Reardon
Department of Agriculture Economics
Michigan State University

Kostas Stamoulis
Agriculture and Economic Development Analysis Division
FAO Economic and Social Department

Paul Winters
Mexico, Central America and Hispaniola Region
Inter-American Development Bank

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 2002

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Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of acronyms

Chapter 1. Promoting farm/non-farm linkages in developing countries - Benjamin Davis, Thomas Reardon, Kostas Stamoulis and Paul Winters

Chapter 2. Farm/non-farm linkages and agricultural supply response in Mexico: a village-wide modelling perspective - J. Edward Taylor and Antonio Yunez-Naude

INTRODUCTION
FOUR MODELS OF FARM/NON-FARM LINKAGES
THE VILLAGES AND THE DATA
FINDINGS FROM VILLAGE AND VILLAGE/TOWN SAM MULTIPLIER MODELS
VILLAGE/TOWN MICROREGION CGE RESULTS
CONCLUSIONS
REFERENCES

Chapter 3. The rural non-farm economy and farm/non-farm linkages in Querétaro, Mexico - Fernando Rello and Marcel Morales

Chapter 4. Promoting strategic linkages between the farm/non-farm sectors: the Peruvian case - Javier Escobal and Victor Agreda

Chapter 5. Rural farm/non-farm income linkages in northern Ethiopia - Tassew Woldehanna

Chapter 6. Promoting farm/non-farm linkages: a case study of French bean processing in Kenya - Lydia Neema Kimenye

Chapter 7. The potential for farm/non-farm linkages in the cassava subsector in Ghana - Ramatu Al-Hassan and Irene Egyir

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