Volumes 41 - 46: Recent submissions
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Adapting Smallholder Agriculture to Climate Change
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/7/2012)Agriculture and climate change are mutually impacted. The worst affected are the small and marginal farmers who constitute more than 70 per cent of the farming community in India. Extreme weather events like increased ... -
India's Climate Policy: Squaring the Circle
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/7/2012)The Durban Platform process towards a new global climate agreement has thrown open for debate all issues, including those earlier settled in the Kyoto Protocol. Any new compact must ensure sharply reduced global emissions ... -
Notes on Contributors
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Introduction: The Young People and Agriculture ‘Problem’ in Africa
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2012)In introducing this collection of articles we argue that policy framing and policy responses to the ‘problem’ of young people and agriculture in Africa are hampered by a lack of research and evidence that is theoretically ... -
Agriculture and the Generation Problem: Rural Youth, Employment and the Future of Farming
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2012)Youth unemployment and underemployment are serious problems in most countries, and often more severe in rural than in urban areas. Small?scale agriculture is the developing world's single biggest source of employment, and ... -
Perceptions and Aspirations: A Case Study of Young People in Ghana's Cocoa Sector
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2012)This article considers the question of young people's aspirations in agriculture in light of the renewed interest in the agricultural sector as a viable basis for development in sub?Saharan Africa (SSA), and the perception ... -
‘A Last Resort and Often Not an Option at All’: Farming and Young People in Ethiopia
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2012)Development policies in Ethiopia emphasise agriculture as the pathway to industrialisation. Policies allude to the need for a new generation of young, literate and trained farmers to transform the agricultural sector and ... -
Youth, Agriculture and Land Grabs in Malawi
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2012)Malawi has received international media attention as a potential model for a uniquely African green revolution following the success of its fertiliser subsidy programme. The role of young people has not featured at all in ... -
Quick Money and Power: Tomatoes and Livelihood Building in Rural Brong Ahafo, Ghana
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2012)This article uses the example of small?scale, labour?intensive tomato production in Brong Ahafo, Ghana to explore some prospects of young people's engagement with the agri?food sector in Africa. Although tomatoes were ... -
Youth Farming and Nigeria's Development Dilemma: The Shonga Experiment
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2012)Youth farming is undergoing a transformation in Nigeria as the incentive framework for small?scale farming changes. Rural?urban migration, rural poverty, education and the new opportunities it affords, and technological ... -
Land Policies and Labour Markets in Sub?Saharan Africa: A Law and Economics Analysis
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2012)This article examines foreign agricultural investment contracts and their potential to contribute to alleviating unemployment and underemployment particularly of young people in sub?Saharan Africa. This investment trend ... -
Young People in African (Agricultural) Policy Processes? What National Youth Policies Can Tell Us
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/11/2012)The ‘youth in agriculture problem’ makes up part of a growing set of ‘youth in development’ issues occupying the minds of aid practitioners and bilateral and multilateral donors. Aid agendas seek to enhance youth participation ... -
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Introduction: Is Development Research Communication Coming of Age?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)In this article we reflect on three themes that highlight current trends in research communication for development and, in turn, shape this issue of the IDS Bulletin . We argue that shifts in the sociopolitical and ... -
Deliberation, Dialogue and Debate: Why Researchers need to Engage with Others to Address Complex Issues
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)As societies have become more differentiated, policy issues are increasingly being analysed using concepts and ideas from the complexity sciences. Policy change involving diverse stakeholders interacting with one another ... -
Stimulating Demand for Research Evidence: What Role for Capacity?building?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)There has been a great deal of interest in recent years in supporting evidence?informed policymaking in developing countries. In particular, there have been efforts to build the capacity of researchers and research ... -
This Research does not Influence Policy
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)This article concerns a study whose questions, methods and analytical conclusions were the work of a group of Karimojong in Uganda. Its report included text and photographs, plain language, direct voices and faces, and ... -
Understanding Context in Learning?centred Approaches to Climate Change Communication
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)Communication on climate change research has long been dominated by top?down delivery of information aimed at informing on future climate scenarios and climate?related events. However, emphasis in this field is slowly ... -
Approaches to Development Research Communication
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)This article traces the co?evolution between models of research communication and development. It looks at how creative and visual methods fit into this trajectory. It argues that the current growth in the accessibility ... -
Cartographers, Conciliators and Catalysts: Understanding the Communicative Roles of Researchers
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)A review of case studies from a global, ten-year research project coordinated by the Institute of Development Studies suggests that previous efforts to understand the value of research for promoting social change has ...
