For many poor countries and for a majority of poor people in the world, agriculture broadly defined can be one of the most effective instruments for development. Yet using agriculture for development, while widely advocated in the development profession and effectively practiced by a number of countries, remains too often well below potential. At the invitation of the editors of the Annual Review of Resource Economics, we retrace how we have used our academic and activist careers to promote agriculture as an instrument for development. We show how access to assets, the design of agrarian institutions, the creation of income opportunities for rural households, and understanding their behavioral responses can lead to successful modernization of agriculture and its transformation toward farming systems, value chains, and local rural nonfarm economies instrumental for development. We encourage younger colleagues to pursue and fulfill this mission by combining analytical rigor, attention to behavior, commitment to activism, and a long-term vision of the development process.

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农业促进发展：分析与行动

对于许多贫穷国家和世界上大多数穷人来说，广义的农业可以是最有效的发展手段之一。然而，利用农业促进发展虽然得到了发展界的广泛提倡，并得到了一些国家的有效实践，但仍然常常远远低于其潜力。应《资源经济学年度评论》编辑的邀请，我们回顾了我们如何利用我们的学术和活动生涯来促进农业作为发展的工具。我们展示了资产的获取、农业制度的设计、为农村家庭创造收入机会以及了解他们的行为反应如何能够成功实现农业现代化及其向耕作系统、价值链和当地农村非农经济的转型。为发展。我们鼓励年轻同事将严谨的分析、对行为的关注、对行动的承诺以及对发展过程的长期愿景结合起来，追求并完成这一使命。