the case studies draw a comprehensive picture showing how some countries have managed to harness commodities in promoting inclusive growth and development while in others commodity dependence has hampered growth prospects owing to weak governance lessons can be drawn from the success stories but also from cases where economies continue to suffer from the negative consequences of commodity dependence both countries used a period of strong global demand for commodities to implement policies that aimed at inclusive growth given that the structure of soybean production in both countries is based on medium and largescale farms social policies were important for redistributing benefits and they resulted in significant progress in poverty reduction and food security