A response to the World Development Report 2008
Introduction
After two decades of indefensible neglect, agriculture is back on the agenda. The World Bank’s publication of the ‘World Development Report 2008: Agriculture For Development’ (hereafter WDR), the first WDR on agriculture since 1982, reflects this renewed interest in the sector’s potential to reduce rural poverty and inequality.
The context is now vastly changed: as the Report outlines, agriculture faces new challenges, from natural resource degradation, and climate change to trade and market liberalisation, the rise of powerful new private actors and the development of new technologies. So what is the agenda now for agriculture?
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