Crisis, adjustment policies and agriculture

This article deals with the effects on agriculture of the economic policy associated with the crisis and the economic adjustment. T he author starts by recounting the most notable features of the macroeconomic policies which in relative terms marginalized agriculture from the most vigorous stimuluses of growth and of the specific policies designed to offset these effects. Before the crisis the combination of these policies had shaped a complex and costly pattern of agricultural development, the results of which were successful for a while with respect to the growth of agriculture in many countries, but failed with respect to equality and alleviation of rural poverty.