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The Drivers of Medium-Scale Farms and the Emerging Synergies and Contradictions Among Socially-Differentiated Farmers in Northern Ghana
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-10-01)Since the turn of the century, agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa has been undergoing rapid transformation. Ghana is experiencing an agrarian revolution with increasing farmland sizes, increased mechanisation of production ... -
The Rise of Medium-Scale Farms in the Northern Savannah of Ghana: Farmland Invasion or an Inclusive Commercialised Agricultural Revolution?
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-10-01)Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa is undergoing rapid transformation involving major changes in farmland ownership and farm scales from small to medium farms, with the widespread use of mechanisation and agro-inputs. ... -
Politics, Power and Social Differentiation in African Agricultural Value Chains: The Effects of COVID-19
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-10-01)Since the structural adjustment policies of the 1980s, policymaking at a national and continental level has increasingly turned to agricultural commercialisation as the foundation for Africa’s long-term nutrition and food ... -
Explaining the Weakness of Associational Life in Oil Palm Growing Communities in Southwestern Ghana
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-10-01)As the second most important industrial crop in Ghana, oil palm holds the potential of improving farmers’ livelihoods and alleviating rural poverty. For smallholder farmers, collective action through farmer-based organisations ... -
Sunflower Commercialisation in Singida Region: Pathways for Livelihood Improvement
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-09-01)Sunflower commercialisation in Singida Region, Tanzania has been successful. The successes include increased oilseed production, expanding processing capacity and declining rural poverty. Policies and efforts by development ... -
Commercial Tobacco Production and Climate Change Adaptation in Mazowe, Zimbabwe
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-09-01)There has been an increasingly well-documented, rapid rise in tobacco production over the last couple of decades in Mazowe, Zimbabwe, despite growing public health concerns about lung cancer and nicotine’s addictive ... -
Yield and Commercialisation Effects of SRI Interventions in Mngeta, Kilombero District, Tanzania
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-09-01)This paper discusses System of Rice Intensification (SRI) interventions and its potential effects on paddy yield and commercialisation in Mngeta division, Kilombero district in Morogoro region, Tanzania. SRI is an innovative ... -
Livestock, Crop Commercialisation and Poverty Reduction Among Rural Households in the Singida Region, Tanzania
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-09-01)Livestock is an important component of mixed crop-livestock farming systems in the Singida Region in Tanzania, directly or indirectly contributing to household income, food security and poverty reduction among rural people ... -
Rice Commercialisation Effects in Mngeta, Kilombero District, Tanzania: Identifying the Underlying Factors
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-09-01)Rice production is the most dominant farming system in Kilombero valley in Morogoro region, Tanzania, accounting for more than 80 per cent of cultivated land within the valley. This paper examines changes in rice ... -
Commercialising Pastoralist Livestock Systems in East Africa
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-08-01)Across East Africa’s vast rangelands, pastoralist livestock systems have been commercialising since the early 1900s. Commercialisation has varied widely within and between areas, but now includes substantial livestock ... -
Agricultural Investment Corridors in Africa: Does Smallholder and Women's Participation Count?
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-08-01)Agricultural development corridors and clusters are highly complex projects that have been driven in Africa by agribusiness and mining corporations, host governments, international donors and development finance institutions. ... -
Rice Commercialisation, Agrarian Change and Livelihood Trajectories: Transformations on the Fogera Plain of Ethiopia
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-08-01)Rice was considered a minor crop in Ethiopia, rarely consumed by many households in Sub-Saharan Africa. In recent decades, however, it has become the most rapidly growing staple food source in the country. This paper ... -
From Field Research to Policy Change - Lessons from FAC and APRA
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-07-01)The Institute of Development Studies has led consortia of UK and African organisations in two large programmes of agricultural policy research: the original Future Agricultures Consortium programme, running from 2005 to ... -
Responses of Rice Farmers Engaged in Vegetable Production: Implications of the Collapse of Vegetable Prices in the Fogera Plain
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-07-01)Since the early 1980s, the Fogera Plain has been one of Ethiopia's major rice production areas. The introduction of rice, its commercialisation and the subsequent increased surplus production has led to the ability of ... -
Research to Policy Influencing - Lessons from APRA on Efficiency, Effectiveness and Sustainability
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-07-01)This paper presents some of the learning on efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability generated by an accompanied learning process; which supported the latter part of a six-year research programme on agricultural ... -
The Political Economy of the Maize Value Chain in Nigeria
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-07-01)The aim of this case study is to understand the underlying political economy dynamics of the maize value chain in Nigeria, with a focus on how this can contribute to comprehending the drivers and constraints of agricultural ... -
The Influence of Sunflower Commercialisation and Diversity on Women's Empowerment: The Case of Iramba and Mkalama Districts, Singida Region
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-06-01)There is a growing body of literature that argues that normally women derive little benefit from cash crops. Some of the barriers leading to women having less benefit from cash crop value chains include cultural norms and ... -
The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation in Africa
(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
(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?
(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 ...
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