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only the small farmer can do it
Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2002
Eastern Africa, Western Africa, Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa
"In contrast to popular predictions of Africa’s worsening economic decline, recent research supports an alternative and more positive vision of Africa’s future. New political commitment and African ownership of the development agenda, combined with a renewed focus on and investments in smallholder-led agriculture, have the potential to halt or reverse the current downward spiral of hunger, poverty, environmental degradation, disease, and civil strife.