The Bank similarly missed crucial opportunities to support smallholder subsistence farmers and to promote integrated rural development more generally in impoverished rural communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. For around 20 years, roughly from 1985 to 2005, the Bank resisted the well-proven use of targeted support for small landholders to enable impoverished subsistence farmers to improve yields and break out of poverty.
类似地，世行错失了在非洲、亚洲和拉美贫困农村地区支持自耕小农、普及促进农村综合发展的关键机会。从1985年到2005年的近20年时间里，世行一直拒绝使用已被证明效果良好的定向小地主支持项目以帮助贫困自耕农提高产量、走出贫困。而在最近，世行已增加了其对小农的支持，但距离它所能做到也应该做到的还差得很远。