The Malawi 2002 Food Crisis: The Rural Development Challenge

摘要: The recent food crisis in Malawi has drawn stark attention to the failures of development policies over last forty years create wealth and develop a robust economy or markets on which such an must depend. Current market liberalisation have achieved at best mixed success addressing generic problems inhibiting smallholder agricultural development: low returns farmers' service providers' investments, with high risks from natural shocks, price variations, coordination failure opportunistic behaviour. Post-independence institutional mechanisms were more successful some these problems, particular those risk, although external internal difficulties led increasing costs declining effectiveness mechanisms, their collapse. They do provide, however, important lessons about different both intervention policies. We suggest discuss set critical elements needed for economic creation poor rural areas, propose four basic principles guide search for, design implementation of, effective strategies