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The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Research Repository is an active repository of digital publications by IDS members and research partners. The Repository consists of a number of curated communities and collections.

The Institute of Development Studies is a global research and learning organisation for equitable and sustainable change. We work with governments, philanthropic foundations, academic institutions and civil society organisations to transform approaches to progressive social, political and economic change. Our world-class research, learning and teaching brings an understanding of people's lived experiences to policy and practice that can respond to unprecedented environmental, social, political, economic and technological disruptions globally. Find out more about IDS at www.ids.ac.uk

Sub-communities within this community

Action on Children’s Harmful Work in African Agriculture [13]
Brazil [63]
Citizenship, Participation and Accountability (DRC) [346]

The Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability (Citizenship DRC) has worked with universities, research institutes and nongovernmental organisations in more than 25 countries to explore ...
Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) [33]
Covid Collective [6]
Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa [14]
ESRC STEPS Centre [222]

The ESRC STEPS Centre (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability) is an interdisciplinary global research and policy engagement centre uniting development studies with science and technology studies
Future Agricultures Consortium [184]
Future Health Systems [92]
IDS Bulletin [2784]
IDS PhD Research [62]
Impact Initiative [778]

The Impact Initiative for international development research aims to increase the uptake and impact of research from two research programmes jointly funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and ...
International Centre for Tax and Development [310]
Journal Articles - External [254]

Journal articles written by IDS staff.
K4D [933]

K4D supports learning and the use of evidence to improve the impact of development policy and programmes. The programme is designed to assist the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and other partners to ...
Migrating out of Poverty [163]
ORIE [0]
Pakistan [72]
Pathways of Women's Empowerment [27]
Strengthening Evidence Based Policy [344]
Test Collection [0]
The African Universities' Research Approaches (AURA) programme [171]

AURA, a two-year programme, funded by UK AID, was implemented from November 2014 to September 2016.
The Governance of Service Delivery [13]

Collections in this community

Action for Empowerment and Accountability Programme [95]
Balancing unpaid work and paid work [20]

Explores the successes, challenges and lessons for Women’s Economic Empowerment programmes and policies
BASIC Research [1]
Bellagio Initiative [31]
BRIDGE [5]
Child Labour [14]
Citizen Engagement Programme (CEP) [7]
Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management [18]
Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) [18]
Disability Inclusion – IDS Collection [57]
EMERGE [20]
Global Challenges [0]
Global Uncertainties: Security in an Africa of Networked, Multi-Level Governance [9]
Humanitarian Innovation and Evidence Programme (HIEP) Impact Project [14]
Human Wellbeing and Development [1]
IDS Alumni Newsletter [21]
IDS Research [1403]
Independent evaluation on Reduction of Maternal and Neonatal Mortality in Kenya [2]
Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) [98]
Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility [30]
Making All Voices Count [134]
Mobilising Quality for Scaling Up Nutrition [5]
Nutrition Research in Northern Nigeria [29]
Participation in Economic Advancement Collection [25]
Policy Alternatives for Livestock Development in Mongolia [19]
Poverty, Politics, and Participatory Methodologies in SDC [17]
Social Protection and Food Security and Nutrition (Irish Aid and IDS Programme Partnership) [11]
Social Science in Humanitarian Action [92]
Test Collection Mapper [2]
The Dudley Seers Archive [56]

This collection contains published and unpublished writings of development economist Dudley Seers, Professorial Fellow and Director of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex 1967–72.
The Lawrence Haddad IDS Collection [5]
The Reginald H. Green Archive [399]

This collection contains the published and unpublished writings of development economist Reginald H. Green, whose work on African economic issues spans four decades.
The Robert Chambers Archive [415]

A complete bibliography of Robert Chambers spanning four decades of research on participatory development.
The Sanitation Learning Hub [96]
Transitions to Agroecological Food Systems [7]

Recent Submissions

The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation in Africa

Chinsinga, Blessings; Poulton, Colin (APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2018-12-01)

This brief seeks to identify key factors that influence the strength and composition of coalitions in favour of and against policies that promote agricultural commercialisation, or that influence the commercialisation ...
Inducing agribusiness investment in Malawi: Insights from investors

Chingaipe, Henry; Thombozi, Joseph; Chingaipe, Horace (APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2020-07-01)

Agriculture is key to Malawi’s development strategy, with over 80 per cent of the workforce employed in the sector. However, government investment in agricultural commercialisation has been low, national financial institutions ...
Does Rice Commercialisation Enhance or Impair Household Food Security Among Rice Producing Households in Mngeta Division, Kilombero District, Tanzania?

Mdoe, Ntengua; Mlay, Gilead; Isinika, Aida; Boniface, Gideon; Magomba, Christopher; Jeckoniah, John; Mosha, Devotha (APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2020-05-01)

The Tanzanian government has identified rice as a priority crop and has been implementing the National Rice Development Strategy (NRDS) since 2009 to commercialise rice farming (United Republic of Tanzania 2019). The ...
Policy Incentives and Agribusiness Investment in Ethiopia: Benefit or Deadweight?

Thorpe, Jodie; Nigussie, Tebeje; Ayele, Gezahegn; Ayele, Seife (APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2019-07-01)

The importance of agriculture to the Ethiopian economy is underlined by the country’s forthright promotion of investment in agriculture since the turn of the century, but how effective has this investment really been? This ...
The White Gold of Wereta: A City Raised on Rice

Taddesse, Tilahun; Alemu, Dawit; Assaye, Abebaw (APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2020-04-01)

Wereta – the administrative capital of Fogera district – is an example of one of the fastest growing urban areas in the Fogera plain. Its rapid development is strongly connected with the development of the rice industry, ...
Does Rice Commercialisation in Mngeta, Kilombero, Tanzania Impact Livelihoods?

Isinika, Aida; Mdoe, Ntengua; Jeckoniah, John; Magomba, Christopher; Mlay, Gilead; Kilave, Devotha (APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2020-04-01)

This policy brief draws from research on rice commercialisation in Mngeta division, Kilombero District. The study area was selected because it fits well with the government’s ambition, under the Southern Agricultural Growth ...
Enhancing Production of Quality Rice in Ethiopia: Dis/incentives for Rice Processors

Assaye, Abebaw; Alemu, Dawit (APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2020-03-01)

In order to reduce the import burden and contribute towards the country’s development plan through import substitution, it is critical to focus on increasing rice production and improving the quality of milled rice. Rice ...
Changing Farm Structure and Agricultural Commercialisation in Nigeria

Muyanga, Milu; Jayne, Thomas; Aromolaran, Adebayo; Liverpool-Tasie, Saweda; Awokuse, Titus; Adelaja, Adesoji (APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2019-08-01)

There is evidence to show that there has been a transition regarding the structure of land ownership in Africa, particularly a rise in the number of commercialised medium-scale farms (MSFs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The ...
Agribusiness Investment in Agricultural Commercialisation in Ghana: Rethinking Policy Incentives

Teye, Joseph (APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2019-07-01)

Ghana’s recent image as a peaceful and stable country has provided an attractive environment for foreign investors to do business in, reflected by numerous programmes implemented by Ghana and its partners which aim to ...
The Political Economy of Agricultural Growth Corridors in eastern Africa

Chome, Ngala; Goncalves, Euclides; Scoones, Ian; Sulle, Emmanuel (APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2019-03-01)

A new wave of agricultural commercialisation is being promoted across Africa’s eastern seaboard, by a broad range of influential actors – from international corporations to domestic political and business elites. Growth ...
Tractors, Markets and the State: (Dis)continuities in Africa’s Agricultural Mechanisation

Cabral, Lidia; Amanor, Kojo; Shonhe, Toendepi (APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2019-03-01)

Agricultural mechanisation has once again become a topical issue in African policymaking, following the reinstatement of agriculture in the growth and development agenda for the continent since the turn of the century. But ...
A Historical Analysis of Rice Commercialisation in Ethiopia: The Case of the Fogera Plain

Alemu, Dawit (APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2019-03-01)

This brief presents a historical analysis of rice commercialisation and its impacts on local livelihoods and rural economies in Ethiopia, drawing insights from the experience of the Fogera Plain in the Amhara Region. Fogera ...
Building Livelihoods: Youth and Agricultural Commercialisation in Ghana

Yeboah, Thomas (APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2019-03-01)

Analysing the pathways that young people employ to get started in commercial agriculture should provide valuable and policy-relevant insights about opportunities and challenges for Africa’s rural youth. This paper presents ...
Participation, Voice and Governance in African Investment Corridors: The Lamu Port and South Sudan Ethiopia Transport Corridor Project (LAPSSET)

Chome, Ngala (APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2019-02-01)

An investment or growth corridor is a geographical area of a country or group of countries surrounding a major transport route, which supports economic activity either end of, and along, the route. Drawing on APRA’s work ...
The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialistion in Malawi

Chinsinga, Blessings (APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2019-01-01)

Malawi is a predominantly agrarian economy. With around 85 percent of the country’s population relying on agriculture for their livelihoods, it is estimated that the sector makes up as much as 35 percent of GDP, 80 percent ...
The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation in Ethiopia: Discourses, Actors and Structural Impediments

Alemu, Dawit; Berhanu, Kassahun (APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2018-10-01)

This brief examines the political economy of agricultural commercialisation in Ethiopia, by analysing the changing political landscape and electoral trends spanning the past three decades. It gives an overview of the ...
Women’s Empowerment and the Commercialisation of African Agriculture

Hossain, Naomi; Dancer, Helen (APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2018-10-01)

This brief presents a summary of key issues in research on women’s empowerment, drawn from an APRA working paper commissioned to support the design of APRA’s research on pathways to agricultural commercialisation in Africa. ...
Partnerships, Platforms and Policies: Strengthening Farmer Capacity to Harness Technological Innovation for Agricultural Commercialisation

Alemu, Dawit; Odame, Hannington (APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2018-10-01)

This brief uses three STI revolution storylines based on case studies from Ethiopia, Zambia, and Ghana to highlight the enabling factors that make STI a vehicle for agricultural commercialisation. The storylines based on ...
The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation in Zimbabwe

Shonhe, Toendepi (APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2018-10-01)

This brief presents a critical discussion of the political economy of agricultural commercialisation in Zimbabwe, focusing on the post-2000 period – when major land redistribution brought about dramatic agrarian structural ...
Acknowledging and Learning from Different Types of Failure

Vernon, Naomi; Myers, Jamie (SAGE, 2021-06-06)

The challenges faced in sanitation and hygiene programmes are numerous and complex. Failures are inevitable. From our experience of working on rapid action learning and research in this sector we have found that when ...