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Policy Incentives and Agribusiness Investment in Ethiopia: Benefit or Deadweight?
(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 ... -
Changing Farm Structure and Agricultural Commercialisation in Nigeria
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2019-06-01)Evidence is mounting that the rise of medium-scale investor farms and associated changes in the distribution of farm sizes are occurring in many African countries. These changes in the distribution of farm sizes are creating ... -
Building Livelihoods: Young People and Agricultural Commercialisation in Africa: Zimbabwe Country Study
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2019-06-01)This paper is concerned with how young people in the Mvurwi Farming Area in Zimbabwe engage with or are affected by agricultural commercialisation. Mvurwi’s commercialised rural economy offers opportunities for young people ... -
Building Livelihoods: Young People and Agricultural Commercialisation: Tanzania Country Study
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2019-03-15)This paper reports on a study of how young people engage in the rural economy in an area where there is a significant level of agricultural commercialisation. The objective was to develop an understanding of the steps and ... -
Mechanised Agriculture and Medium-Scale Farmers in Northern Ghana: a Success of Market Liberalism or a Product of a Longer History?
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2019-03-15)In recent years, the significant uptake of tractor-ploughing services in Ghana has been heralded as a success of market liberal policies. It has been argued that market reforms have enabled medium-scale farmers to expand ... -
Tractors in Africa: Looking Behind the Technical Fix
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2019-03-01)This paper considers the current policy debate on agricultural mechanisation in Africa, situating this in the context of long-standing disputes on appropriate technology and roles for the state. Present calls for mechanisation, ... -
Tractors and Agrarian Transformation In Zimbabwe: Insights from Mvurwi
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2019-03-01)This paper examines postcolonial agricultural mechanisation in Zimbabwe in the context of recent land reforms. It pays particular attention to the central role played by state-capital relations – with notable links to ... -
Building Livelihoods: Young People and Agricultural Commercialisation in Africa: Ghana Country Study
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2019-02-01)This paper is concerned with how rural young people in Ghana engage with or are affected by two processes closely associated with rural and economic transformation – agricultural intensification and agricultural ... -
Zinc Roof or Mango Tree? Tractors, Modernisation and Agrarian Transformation in Mozambique
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2019-02-01)This paper analyses the design and implementation of Mozambique’s National Agriculture Mechanisation Programme and wider mechanisation policy, looking at the models devised for service provision, actors involved, their ... -
A Historical Analysis of Rice Commercialisation in Ethiopia: the Case of the Fogera Plain
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2018-12-01)This paper 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, a dynamic farming area in ... -
The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation in Malawi
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2018-08-01)This paper examines the political economy of agricultural commercialisation in Malawi over the past three or so decades both in a contemporary and historical perspective. Drawing insights from Keeley and Scoones (2003) and ... -
The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation in Africa
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2018-07-01)Much of the existing literature on the political economy of agricultural policy in Africa, including studies by the Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC) and Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA), adopts a case study ... -
A Longitudinal Tracker Study on Groundnut Commercialisation and Livelihood Trajectories in Malawi
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2018-06-01)APRA seeks to generate new evidence on agricultural commercialisation pathways in rapidly changing rural contexts in Africa, assessing outcomes in relation to poverty, women’s empowerment and food and nutrition security. ... -
Agricultural Growth Trends in Africa
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2018-05-01)This paper reviews thinking about agricultural development in Africa since 2010, and the record of agricultural development in the continent since 1990. In many respects, the context for agricultural development has changed ... -
The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation In Ghana: A Review
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2018-06-01)This paper examines the political economy of agricultural commercialisation in Ghana from the year 2000 to 2018. Agriculture is a major economic activity in Ghana, contributing about 20 percent to the country’s gross ... -
The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation in Ethiopia: Discourses, Actors and Structural Impediments
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2018-05-01)This country review aims to identify the key dynamics, actors and associated discourses of agricultural commercialisation in Ethiopia. To this end, we aim to shed light on the forces and factors that influence policy ... -
Rural Transitions, Economies and Rural–Urban Links
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2018-03-01)Agricultural development takes place within the wider context of overall economic development. In the process, changes in agriculture – such as the increased commercialisation of farms in general and smallholdings in ... -
The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation in Zimbabwe
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2018-04-01)Debates on Zimbabwe’s agricultural development have centred on different framings of agriculture viability and land redistribution, which are often antagonistic. Yet, emerging evidence of agricultural commercialisation ... -
Agricultural Commercialisation Pathways Climate Change and Agriculture
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2018-02-01)This paper presents a review of recent literature on the implications of climate change for agricultural commercialisation, focusing chiefly on sub-Saharan Africa, and incorporating evidence, where relevant, from around ... -
Partnerships, Platforms and Policies: Strengthening Farmer Capacity to Harness Technological Innovation for Agricultural Commercialisation
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2018-02-12)Innovation capacity presupposes capacity to harness science, technology and innovation (STI) for agricultural commercialisation. Agricultural commercialisation requires an enabling policy environment on STI issues such as ...
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