TheWorld Development Report 2008
Inconsistencies, Silences, and the Myth of 'Win-Win' Scenarios
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2158306 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carlos Oya (0000-0003-0379-6377, SOAS University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 593-601 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03066150903142949 |
| OpenAlex | W2045211036 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 16 |
The World Development Report 2008 (WDR-2008) on agriculture and development has been received with much expectation and controversy. This paper welcomes some aspects of the WDR-2008 that help us reinvigorate some debates on agricultural development, so far marginalised in international development policy agendas. The paper, however, focuses on some critical problems in the report and the World Bank's stance on agriculture. First, there are tensions between advocacy and research and between the World Bank's rhetoric and operational realities. Secondly, the report suffers from the usual adherence to superficial win-win scenarios that mask conflict of interest and power relations. Thirdly, the WDR-2008 is caught in a tension between neo-populist pro-small farmer views and 'modernist' pro-agribusiness stances. Fourthly, the analysis of agricultural development in isolation from broader development processes and especially without a systematic analysis of industrialisation and agriculture-industry relations seriously limits the analytical and empirical value of the report
Agriculture · Economic growth · Economics · Industrialisation · International development · Political economy · Political science · Power (physics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Organic Food and Agriculture
Challenging ‘conventional agriculture’
Changing livelihoods in the context of multiple stressors and implications for adaptation in the Kilombero Valley of Tanzania
The agricultural productivity gap
Nothing Less than its Eradication'? Ireland'S Hunger Task Force and the Production of Hunger
The green growth narrative, bioeconomy and the foreclosure of nature
The global climate of land politics
Decoupling
Smallholder Participation in Modernising Agri-Food Value Chains in Thailand
Agroforestry transitions
Family farming, agribusiness and the state
Upgrading for whom? Relationship coffee, value chain interventions and rural development in Indonesia
The right to food in the context of large-scale land investment in Ethiopia
Host country governance and the African land rush
Niche Commodities and Rural Poverty Alleviation
Precarity, poverty and poppy
Rethinking rural development in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Delta through a historical food regimes frame
A green economy failure? Italian investors in Senegal between green grabbing and development promises
Working in Chains
Can Capitalism Solve Its Own Rural Problems? Japanese Lessons for the World Bank's Vision of Rural-Led Development
Redrawing the Map of the World? Reflections on the World Development Report 2009
Class Dynamics at the Margins
Beyond simplistic narratives
Politically engaged, pluralist and internationalist
Without the blanket of the land
The Long Green Revolution
The new enclosures
Centering labor in the land grab debate
Processes of inclusion and adverse incorporation
Peasants and Globalization
Rural income and poverty in a time of radical change in Malawi
Research, knowledge, and the art of ‘paradigm maintenance’
Leaving the Household Out of Family Labour? The Implications for the Size–Efficiency Debate
The Struggle for Alternatives
World Development Report 2008
Governance and Trade in Fresh Vegetables
(Re)imagining Agrarian Relations? TheWorld Development Report 2008
Urban Bias', Intersectoral Resource Flows and the Macroeconomic Implications of Agrarian Relations
Chinese Land Reform in Long-Run Perspective and in the Wider East Asian Context
Neo-Classical Neo-Populism 25 Years On
Development strategies and rural development
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |