Agriculture and Rural Development: Lessons for Christian Groups Combating Persistent Poverty

It is the Policy of Cornell University actively to support equality of educational and employment opportunity. No person shall be denied admission to any educational program or activity or be denied employment on the basis of any The University is committed to the maintenance of affirmative action programs which will assure the continuation of such equality of opportunity. Comments Greatly Appreciated The authors' names are listed alphabetically; we share seniority of authorship. Prepared for the Association of Christian Economists' conference on " Economists, Practitioners, and the Attack on Poverty: Toward Christian Collaboration, " January 5-6, 2003, in Washington, DC. We thank Ruerd Ruben for helpful comments on an earlier version. Any remaining errors are our responsibility.