Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 11/2009

Harnessing Agriculture for Development

Arabella Fraser

October 2009

Oxfam Publishing

Abstract

This report reflects Oxfam's emphasis on the role of sustainable livelihoods in rural areas, particularly agriculture, in reducing poverty and inequality. It also analyses the main challenges we face in the 21st century: identifying which actors have the power to promote the necessary political changes and setting out the elements of a political agenda able to strengthen an agricultural sector made up of millions of small farmers from around the world.