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["Paul Mundy" <<address removed>>]

To follow up on Christie's and Berthold's comments:
Agriculture is very different in different parts of the world. Simon
Maxwell's and Michael Lipton's papers hint at this when they say that the
Green Revolution had a major effect in Asia, but has missed Africa.
Given the differences between societies, economies, ecosystems and farming
systems around the world, a one-size-fits-all policy is highly unlikely to
be appropriate. What works in the irrigated rice lands of SE Asia is not
likely to succeed in the drought-prone pastoralist lands of East Africa.
That goes for agricultural subsectors too: the needs and opportunities of
small-scale livestock holders are very different from those of cut-flower
growers or maize farmers.
DFID's policy presumably should recognize this. It should allow approaches
and interventions to be tailored to local needs, rather than apply a blanket
approach worldwide.

Paul Mundy
development communication
Weizenfeld 4
51467 Bergisch Gladbach
Germany
<address removed>
www.mamud.com

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