Agricultural growth affects poverty and overall economic growth directly and indirectly through linkages with the non-agricultural sector, at the same time, reinforcing economic activity in rural areas has a significant impact on the disproportionately large number of poor living in those areas (see empirical studies on Ethiopia by Diao and Nin-Pratt, 2007, on Ghana by Breisinger et al., Nin-Pratt et al. ( The authors stress the mismatch between the old-fashioned, low productivity and high risk production patterns that are still prevalent in the region and the role of the agricultural sector as the main provider of employment, rural livelihoods, export revenues, and more generally national income.