ABSTRACT
If, as claimed in Chapter 2.2 in particular, international development cooperation has constantly viewed the problem area of agricultural and rural development and the associated task of poverty reduction ‘from the wrong angle’ in the past, the question now has to be what, then, would be the ‘right angle’ and where might realistic problem-solving approaches be found? To get to grips with this difficult issue, five notional steps will first be taken, culminating in another idea: what structures of government and society would be most likely to support the performance of complex development tasks of this kind?
