date:Sep 29, 2013
urage investment by agricultural firms whose know-how and capital it says can develop terrain largely hostile to farming.
Oxfam in turn argues that the government should invest in infrastructure in order to make smallholder farming viable there and to improve livelihoods of rural dwellers. That would also ensure production of locally consumed staples rather than encouraging monoculture, or production of single crops like soy, for export markets, Oxfam says.