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Hartmut Brandt And Uwe Otzen's Key Book Undertakes A Wide-ranging Conceptual Reorientation Of Development Cooperation, Criticizing The Current Orthodoxy And Its Bias Towards Urban Areas, And Argues That In Order To Effectively Alleviate Poverty Across The World, Agricultural And Rural Development Measures Need To Be Implemented By Central And Subnational Governments, Aid Agencies And The Private Sector. The Authors Investigate The World Food Question, The Current Pressures It Is Under And Its Link To Rural Poverty, And Set Out The Policies That Need To Be Undertaken To Reduce Global Poverty.--jacket. Pt. A. Approaches To Poverty Reduction Through Agricultural Development -- Pt. I. Background To The Problem: World Food Question -- 1. Overview -- 2. Demand -- 3. Supply -- 4. Main Development Problem Of The World Food Issue: Poverty, Hunger, Undernourishment And Malnutrition -- 5. Relevance Of Food Prices To Poverty -- Pt. Ii. Motive For The Study: New Urban Bias In Development Cooperation -- 6. Neglect Of The Agricultural Sector In Development Cooperation -- 7. Neglect Of Agriculture In The Sub-saharan African Countries -- Pt. Iii. Poverty Reduction In The Conceptual Experience Of Agricultural Development -- 8. Role Of Agriculture In The Early-industrial Phase Of Economic Development -- 9. Agricultural Policy Conceptions 1955-2000 -- Pt. Iv. Economic Growth, Agricultural Development, Poverty Reduction -- 10. Economic And Agricultural Growth -- 11. Driving Forces Behind Agricultural Growth -- 12. Growth And Poverty Reduction -- 13. The Problems Posed By Poverty-oriented Agricultural Policy -- 14. Conclusions -- 15. Recommendations -- Pt. B. Institutional And Organizational Ways For Rural Communities Of Sub-saharan Africa To Reduce Poverty -- Pt. I. Global Framework For Sustainable And Poverty-reducing Agricultural And Rural Development -- 1. Agenda 21 -- 2. World Food Summit Plan Of Action -- 3. Un Convention To Combat Desertification -- 4. Un Millennium Declaration And Poverty Reduction Strategies -- 5. Effects Of, Difficulties With The Implementation Of And Lessons To Be Learnt From The Structural Adjustment Programmes -- Pt. Ii. Realistic Problem-solving Approaches -- 6. Requirements To Be Met By Development Cooperation -- 7. Focusing On Key Areas Of Development Policy -- 8. Sequencing Of Development Steps -- 9. Jettisoning Of Ballast Inherent In Development Cooperation -- 10. Pooling Human And Financial Resources And Setting Priorities -- 11. Donor Coordination And International Division Of Labour -- 12. Performance Of Multifunctional Agricultural And Rural Development Tasks Through Decentralization -- Pt. Iii. Importance For Development Policy Of, Preconditions For And Effects Of Decentralization -- 13. Decentralization As A Recurrent Challenge To Development Policy -- 14. Importance For Broad-based Socio-economic Development -- 15. Effects On And Risks For Development Policy -- 16. Importance Of Fiscal Decentralization For Development -- 17. Opportunities For Development Cooperation To Promote Decentralization -- Pt. Iv. Decentralization And Development Cooperation Priorities -- 18. Cooperation Between The Private And Public Sectors -- 19. Integration Of Intersectoral Programmes Into Poverty Reduction Strategies -- Pt. V. Institutional And Organizational Implementation Options -- 20. Attempt At A Conceptual Approach -- 21. Poverty Reduction Through Agriculturally Based Rural Development -- 22. New Ways For Development Cooperation Support -- Pt. Vi. Conclusions And Recommendations -- 23. Conclusions -- 24. Recommendations. Hartmut Brandt And Uwe Otzen. English-language Translation First Published In 2007 By Routledge--t.p. Verso. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.