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Small Farmers and Employment

In: What Price Food?

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  • Paul Streeten

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Food subsidies discussed in the previous section are an important short-run measure to alleviate the impact of raising food prices for producers. But they can be very expensive and may make, by themselves, only a limited contribution to a long-term solution. For this, it is necessary to raise the earning capacity of the poor, either by generating employment opportunities or by enabling them to grow more productively the food they themselves consume. These longer term programmes are administratively more difficult, and often run into political obstacles. Experience in India and Bangladesh has shown that the provision of credit to small farmers can be a highly productive investment and that there are few defaults.

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  • Paul Streeten, 1987. "Small Farmers and Employment," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: What Price Food?, chapter 14, pages 71-73, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-18921-2_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-18921-2_14
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