This is particularly important in an LDC context, since a large proportion of time spent at work is devoted to subsistence activities, and since a large number of people are engaged in such activities, particularly agriculture. Broadly speaking, agriculture in LDCs comprises both subsistence activities and commercial agriculture.11 Agricultural development policies are likely to benefit both types of activities. In the case of subsistence agriculture, they are expected to have an impact on earnings, on poverty, but also on output levels.