In a recent article from the New York Times, it was stated, “for the first time in a quarter century, the World Bank’s flagship annual report on development puts agriculture and the productivity of small farmers at the heart of a global agenda to reduce poverty. However, ¾ of the world’s poor live in the countryside. Also, increased public investment was essential for Africa’s poor farmers to grow more crops on their small plots of land. In addition, “most poor Africans make their living in agriculture and need to grow more to feed themselves and earn their way out of destitution,” as said by many analysts.
Furthermore, “the Gates Foundation, known for its work on global health, was motivate in part by an awareness that extreme poverty and malnutrition were underlying causes of much of the sickness and premature death plaguing Africa.” However, the bank among other organizations play a unique role in advising poor countries, and is likely to influence practical policies across Africa, where several millions of farmers and landless labors are still in poverty.
In conclusion, my analysis on this topic is that I think it is GREAT that agriculture can be the core to antipoverty in countries that agriculture is all the poorer people know. I also am very pleased that organizations are realizing that poverty is the source to many other problems and by solving the underlying issue in turn will help resolve the other issues. It amazes me that 3/4 of the world’s poor live in the countryside, but that their agriculture is the heart to reduce poverty. This article gives hope that to all those poor, hardworking, farmers that slave over their crops; that what they are doing is helping to reduce poverty. I also liked the Gates Foundation for reaching out to the people in Africa and trying to influence other farmers across Africa who were living in poverty.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/20/world/africa/20worldbank.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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