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In this rapidly globalizing world, possibly the most fundamental problem facing us all is the continuing prevalence of poverty in so many countries while only a minority of industrialized countries enjoy wealth. The World Bank estimates that more than half of the world’s poor live in rural areas, the majority of them subsistence farmers. “More than half a century of persistent efforts by the World Bank and others have not altered the stubborn reality of rural poverty, and the gap between the rich and poor is widening. Most of the world’s poorest people still live in rural areas and this will continue in the foreseeable future” (World Bank, 2002a).
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- Success in Agricultural TransformationWhat It Means and What Makes It Happen, pp. 1 - 12Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011