Fostering Crop Productivity in Rural Rwanda: Policy Implications

Agriculture continues to be the backbone of the economy of Rwanda contributing more than a third of the country’s GDP. The government of Rwanda with collaboration of researchers and its population has to stress on policies and projects to stimulate productivity as they are many corners in agriculture sector to be improved. Bolstering the livelihoods in developing countries is feasible through maintenance of food sovereignty and safety by increasing productivity. The research spotlights the policies to improve the livelihood of rural population of Rwanda through crop productivity improvement. The current review concluded that the government should take the first ride to innovate farming systems. The future researches will examine precisely each policy spotlighted in the current research and provide practical process to achieve the government goal of being the middle income country.