* This is a revised version of a keynote lecture presented at Workshop on Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development: Exploring the Links" organised by International Institute for Sustainable Development at Ottawa, Ontario, January 23, 2001. I wish to thank participants in the Workshop for suggestions that helped revise the paper.

We have benefited from the comments of John Hoddinott. The work reported here is the outcome of a collaborative project between researchers at IFPRI, the University of Natal, and the University of Wisconsin. In addition to support from these three institutions, the following provided financial support: the United States Agency for

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