Breaking the Global Poverty Trap: Why Aid Fails and How to Build a Sustainable Future for the Planet's Poor

Millions of the world's smallholder farmers live in desperate poverty. For decades the development sector has spent hundreds of billions of dollars annually to address the crisis, yet extreme poverty remains endemic. In Breaking the Global Povery Trap, Pierre Ferrari diagnoses the flaws in the conventional development approach and shares his successful "pro-poor, wealth-creating, value chain" strategy that emphasizes: building social capital and technical capacity, organizing for collective...