'Agroindustrialization' comprises three related sets of changes: (a) growth of commercial, off-farm agro-processing, distribution and input provision activities, (b) institutional and organizational change in the relations between farms and firms both upstream and downstream, such as a marked...

This paper examines the complex relationship that exists between poverty and natural resource degradation in developing countries. The rural poor are often concentrated in fragile, or less favorable, environmental areas. Consequently, their livelihoods can be intimately dependent on natural...