IDST 1000Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: World Food Summit, Sub-Saharan Africa, Agricultural Science
5 Apr 2016
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Food and hunger: an irresistible force? (cid:1) (cid:1) 60-80% of food is grown by women but they own less than 2% of the land (cid:1) 2008: the world bank divided the globe into 3 different rural worlds: Agriculture-based countries: agriculture is the most important source of economic growth and the countryside is where poverty is found, sub-saharan africa is the example. Transforming countries: agriculture is no longer the most important source of economic growth but the countryside is still where poverty is found, most of asia and the middle east. Urbanized countries: poverty is urban, latin america (cid:1) Since 1950s, rural development interventions have mirrored trends in international development practices state-led development in the period between the 1950s and the. 1970s was replaced by market-led approaches to the present. Rural development interventions have sought to try to energize agriculture on a broad front (complimentary intervention) community development integrated rural development (wide rang of things at the same time)
