According to the World Bank’s World Development Report 2008 on Agriculture for Development, 70% of poor people live in rural areas and are dependent on agriculture for their living. An estimated 2.5 billion persons depend on this activity worldwide. Cervantes-Godoy and Dewbre (2010), seeking to identify shared characteristics among developing countries that had been particularly successful in reducing extreme poverty over the last twenty to twenty-five years, find that, while economic growth in general was a necessary pre-condition and an important contributor to poverty reduction, agricultural growth had played the most important role in the majority of the reviewed countries. Brooks (2012) highlights the contribution of agricultural growth in reducing poverty in particular through smallholder development.