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Wood, Stanley; Sebastian, Kate; Nachtergaele, Freddy; Nielsen, Daniel; Dai, Aiguo. |
Two increasingly shared perspectives within the international development community are that (a) geography matters, and (b) many government interventions would be more successful if they were better targeted. This paper unites these two notions by exploring the opportunities for, and benefits of, bringing an explicitly spatial dimension to the tasks of formulating and evaluating agricultural development strategies. The paper was originally conceived to address the more specific goal of proposing a spatial characterization to underpin deliberations on appropriate development strategies for the “fragile” or “less-favored” lands of Sub-Saharan Africa. In practice, however, we considered that goal to be not only impractical but, perhaps, ill-conceived. The... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: International Development. |
Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42830 |
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