Agriculture in integrated rural development: A critique

This critique comes in response to an article by Montague Yudelman with the same title published in November 1976. Dr Ahmed reviews Yudelman's discussion of the World Bank's experience and approach. Their strategy, which aims at aiding small farmers without regard to what happens to landless labourers, is basically production oriented and differs little from the conventional approach to agricultural development. The alternative approach suggested by Ahmed has three basic components: agricultural development, non-farm rural occupations and public sector productive workers programmes.