Agricultural development and modernization in South Asia
Agriculture, natural resources, and the nutrition landscape in South Asia (SA) are unique. As in other Asian regions, SA’s agriculture is largely smallholder based and continues to employ a large share of the workforce, compared with Latin America. Compared with Africa south of the Sahara (SSA), agr...
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| author | Takeshima, Hiroyuki Kumar, Anjani Ahmed, Akhter Joshi, Pramod Kumar |
| author_browse | Ahmed, Akhter Joshi, Pramod Kumar Kumar, Anjani Takeshima, Hiroyuki |
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| description | Agriculture, natural resources, and the nutrition landscape in South Asia (SA) are unique. As in other Asian regions, SA’s agriculture is largely smallholder based and continues to employ a large share of the workforce, compared with Latin America. Compared with Africa south of the Sahara (SSA), agricultural modernization and intensification in SA have progressed more substantially. However, compared with East Asia (that is, Northeast and Southeast Asia), the speed of agricultural transformation has remained slower in terms of the exit of labor from farming, despite comparable intensification levels. The region is still home to almost 300 million of the poor, a majority of whom live in rural areas, engaging in agriculture. SA is also one of the regions with the scarcest natural resource endowments per capita, including water resources.1 Finally, the multiple burden of malnutrition persists, as the region remains one of the largest contributors to global undernutrition, while simultaneously overnutrition continues to emerge (Meenaksh 2016). Therefore, in SA, understanding the evolution and implications of agricultural development is important particularly in the context of agricultural transformation, natural resource management, poverty, and food/nutrition security improvement. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1421692025-11-06T03:58:59Z Agricultural development and modernization in South Asia Takeshima, Hiroyuki Kumar, Anjani Ahmed, Akhter Joshi, Pramod Kumar modernization agricultural development Agriculture, natural resources, and the nutrition landscape in South Asia (SA) are unique. As in other Asian regions, SA’s agriculture is largely smallholder based and continues to employ a large share of the workforce, compared with Latin America. Compared with Africa south of the Sahara (SSA), agricultural modernization and intensification in SA have progressed more substantially. However, compared with East Asia (that is, Northeast and Southeast Asia), the speed of agricultural transformation has remained slower in terms of the exit of labor from farming, despite comparable intensification levels. The region is still home to almost 300 million of the poor, a majority of whom live in rural areas, engaging in agriculture. SA is also one of the regions with the scarcest natural resource endowments per capita, including water resources.1 Finally, the multiple burden of malnutrition persists, as the region remains one of the largest contributors to global undernutrition, while simultaneously overnutrition continues to emerge (Meenaksh 2016). Therefore, in SA, understanding the evolution and implications of agricultural development is important particularly in the context of agricultural transformation, natural resource management, poverty, and food/nutrition security improvement. 2021-02-01 2024-05-22T12:10:03Z 2024-05-22T12:10:03Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142169 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293830 https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293854 https://doi.org/10.1353/jda.2021.0083 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Takeshima, Hiroyuki; Kumar, Anjani; Ahmed, Akhter; and Joshi, Pramod Kumar. 2021. Agricultural development and modernization in South Asia. In Agricultural development: New perspectives in a changing world, eds. Keijiro Otsuka and Shenggen Fan. Part Two: Regional Issues in Agricultural Development, Chapter 4, Pp. 111-152. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293830_04. |
| spellingShingle | modernization agricultural development Takeshima, Hiroyuki Kumar, Anjani Ahmed, Akhter Joshi, Pramod Kumar Agricultural development and modernization in South Asia |
| title | Agricultural development and modernization in South Asia |
| title_full | Agricultural development and modernization in South Asia |
| title_fullStr | Agricultural development and modernization in South Asia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agricultural development and modernization in South Asia |
| title_short | Agricultural development and modernization in South Asia |
| title_sort | agricultural development and modernization in south asia |
| topic | modernization agricultural development |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142169 |
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