In the World Development Report for 2008, the World Bank’s focus on “agriculture for development" is timely. But it assumes the inevitability of large-scale farming, and fails to explain how Africa’s rural smallholders will be able to continue to live from farming.

Kjell Havnevik, Senior Researcher, Nordic Africa Institute

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