Risk in rural development: Challenges for managers and policy makers

Agricultural Systems

Volumn 75, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 161-197

  Anderson, Jock R ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Farmers; Intervention; Policy; Poverty; Risk; Rural; Uncertainty; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

COPING STRATEGY; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL ECONOMY; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 0037314121     PISSN: 0308521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0308-521X(02)00064-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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