In IFAD’s experience, working simply to double the income of a smallholder farmer who scrapes by on less than a dollar a day is poverty management, because at two dollars a day, he or she still remains poor. But supporting that smallholder in launching a farming business that could generate a five-fold increase in income amounts to poverty eradication.
事到如今，这种做法必须彻底扭转过来。根据非洲绿色革命联盟的经验，仅仅将一个每天收入不足1美元的小生产者收入提高一倍，这只能算是救济，因为即便日收入达到了2美元，他/她依然生活在贫困线之下。但支持同样的一个人，令其农场能成为一盘为他带来5倍收益的生意，才是真正的根除贫困。