Historical take on agricultural policy


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Prof. Ha-Joon Chang, Cambridge University, reviews the agricultural policies of series of developed and developing economies to determine the roles that governments have played in shaping their agricultural sectors. He finds that policies that were instrumental for the growth of developed countries are not part of the ‘tool box’ available to current development policy practitioners - either at the international or national level.

The paper can be downloaded from the link below.

Chang, H. (2009). Rethinking public policy in agriculture: lessons from history, distant and recent. Journal of Peasant Studies, 36(3), 477-515. doi:10.1080/03066150903142741

Duncan Green, Oxfam GB, has written about this here.

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