Agri - business and entrepreneurship

The purpose of this book is to serve as a practical manual in order to give the background to, and a set of methods for the analysis of rural agro-industrial projects. The volume is written basically for three different groups. The first is those who are concerned with the design, implementation and/or the evaluation of agricultural and rural enterprise projects. The second group of potential users is those who are involved only part time with agricultural and rural agro-indus trial projects. The third group includes development agency and government personnel who have only a peripheral interest in agricultural and rural enter prise projects as one one among many possible developments interventions. For all these groups, the volume should be useful as a guide and a signpost to the major issues likely to be established in rural areas. Much is yet to be learned about the agri-business and agro-enter prise systems in developing assistance in the most effective and successful ways. Twin objectives in this volume are to provide an overview of what is known about the role of activities which could be developed as possible components in projects formulated by governments and aid agencies and then to outline methods of project analysis for identification, design, monitoring and evaluation of development assistance projects in this area.
This superb book contains plenty of substance for scholars, but the writing has the verve and clarity to seize and entertain the general reader as well.