Successful pro-poor growth strategies led by agriculture depend on increased
agricultural sector productivity and improved access to domestic, regional and global
markets. But there is potential for further production unit – based productivity growth,
which has not been fully exploited under existing policy and market arrangements.
Harnessing this potential will immediately improve conditions for poor rural households –
either directly through market prices or indirectly through labour markets.
The weak human capacity of producer households and inappropriate and risky
technologies can undermine efforts to achieve higher levels of productivity and diversify
production into higher value products. Insecure and limited access to land, water and
finance compound these weaknesses. Sustained and targeted policies that address these
challenges and take account of local contexts can help realise agricultural households’
production potential. Delivering such policies requires combined and coordinated efforts
by public, private and civil society organisations.
Market access is critical for agriculture to become the main driver of pro-poor growth.
Households and firms in Rural Worlds 1 and 2 rely heavily on access to markets for their
agricultural production and on the labour from Rural Worlds 3 and 4 to produce surpluses.
Reasons for poor market access include the global “rules of the game” – restrictions,
standards and subsidies of wealthy states – down to local-level factors. They also include
the poor organisation and influence of producers, weak transport and communications
infrastructure and limited market information. Addressing these constraints requires
policy shifts at the regional and global levels – and substantial investment in the transport
infrastructure to enable produce to move from production units to the marketplace.
Strengthening social capital, in such forms as producer organisations, can ensure that
agricultural households have the ability to negotiate in the marketplace and secure fairer
prices for their products.
Agricultural households in Rural Worlds 2 and 3 can improve their incomes through
enhanced engagement with the market place underpinned by an ability to increase
productivity in a sustainable way. Commercial producers and firms in Rural World 1
provide employment opportunities for households in Rural Worlds 3 and 4 and their
pioneering in regional and global markets open future opportunities to producers in Rural
Worlds 2 and 3. These commercial agricultural businesses can be viewed as “engines of
growth” within the wider rural economy, stimulating and sustaining the labour market and
opening commodity markets.
agricultural sector productivity and improved access to domestic, regional and global
markets. But there is potential for further production unit – based productivity growth,
which has not been fully exploited under existing policy and market arrangements.
Harnessing this potential will immediately improve conditions for poor rural households –
either directly through market prices or indirectly through labour markets.
The weak human capacity of producer households and inappropriate and risky
technologies can undermine efforts to achieve higher levels of productivity and diversify
production into higher value products. Insecure and limited access to land, water and
finance compound these weaknesses. Sustained and targeted policies that address these
challenges and take account of local contexts can help realise agricultural households’
production potential. Delivering such policies requires combined and coordinated efforts
by public, private and civil society organisations.
Market access is critical for agriculture to become the main driver of pro-poor growth.
Households and firms in Rural Worlds 1 and 2 rely heavily on access to markets for their
agricultural production and on the labour from Rural Worlds 3 and 4 to produce surpluses.
Reasons for poor market access include the global “rules of the game” – restrictions,
standards and subsidies of wealthy states – down to local-level factors. They also include
the poor organisation and influence of producers, weak transport and communications
infrastructure and limited market information. Addressing these constraints requires
policy shifts at the regional and global levels – and substantial investment in the transport
infrastructure to enable produce to move from production units to the marketplace.
Strengthening social capital, in such forms as producer organisations, can ensure that
agricultural households have the ability to negotiate in the marketplace and secure fairer
prices for their products.
Agricultural households in Rural Worlds 2 and 3 can improve their incomes through
enhanced engagement with the market place underpinned by an ability to increase
productivity in a sustainable way. Commercial producers and firms in Rural World 1
provide employment opportunities for households in Rural Worlds 3 and 4 and their
pioneering in regional and global markets open future opportunities to producers in Rural
Worlds 2 and 3. These commercial agricultural businesses can be viewed as “engines of
growth” within the wider rural economy, stimulating and sustaining the labour market and
opening commodity markets.
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