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ALRE Report on Evidence Demand on Inclusive Agricultural Commercialisation in Africa
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)The Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) programme has generated new evidence and insights into different pathways to inclusive agricultural commercialisation. As part of APRA, the Accompanied Learning on Relevance ... -
Lessons Learnt From Delivering the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) Programme
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)The Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) programme was a six-year (2016–2022), £7 million research initiative of the Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC), to produce high-quality evidence to inform policy and ... -
Does Women’s Engagement in Sunflower Commercialization Empower Them? Experience From Singida region, Tanzania
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2022-05-26)Empowering women within sunflower value chains can create significant development opportunities for them and generate benefits for their families. This paper asks whether women’s engagement in sunflower commercialization ... -
Rice: APRA’s Contribution to Informing and Influencing Policy Debates Around Rice in East Africa
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)Rice production across Africa varies in many aspects due to socio-political, climatic, and environmental differences in the region. The research and outreach activities of the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) ... -
Accompanied Learning: Reflections on How ALRE Enhanced APRA’s Relevance and Effectiveness
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)This case study explores the claim that the Accompanied Learning for Relevance and Effectiveness (ALRE) approach contributed to stronger relevance and effectiveness of the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) ... -
Raising the Profile of Agricultural Policy Research: National Engagement as a Pathway to Change
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)Throughout the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) Programme of the Future Agricultures Consortium, country research teams were encouraged to engage at district and national levels. Towards the end of APRA, during ... -
Changing Farm Structure and Agricultural Commercialisation: Implications for Livelihood Improvements Among Small-Scale Farmers in Nigeria
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-05-01)Research in several African countries shows the rapid rise of a medium-scale farming (MSF) sector. While national development policy strategies within the region officially regard the smallholder farming sector as an ... -
Livelihood Outcomes of Agricultural Commercialisation, Women's Empowerment and Rural Employment
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-05-01)Across Ghana, mixed-crop-livestock enterprises dominate the farming systems with most farmers producing both food staples and non-food cash crops. However, this paper focuses mainly on oil palm-producing farmers because ... -
Effects of Commercialisation on Seasonal Hunger: Evidence from Smallholder Resettlement Areas, Mazowe District, Zimbabwe
(APRA. Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-05-01)Agricultural transformation towards intensive commercial production is a key facet of current development strategies pursued by African governments, aimed at improving welfare outcomes of farm households. However, in ... -
Choice of Tillage Technologies and Impact on Paddy Yield and Food Security in Kilombero Valley, Tanzania
(International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE), 2022-04-30)This paper analyses choice of alternative tillage technology options and their impact on paddy yield and food security in Kilombero valley of Morogoro Region, Tanzania. The results show that the choice of any tillage ... -
Livestock, Crop Commercialization and Poverty Reduction in Crop-Livestock Farming Systems in Singida Region, Tanzania
(International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE), 2022-04-30)Livestock is an important component of crop-livestock farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This paper examined the effect of livestock on crop commercialization and poverty reduction among smallholder farmers in ... -
COVID-19: APRA’s Contribution to Understanding the Effects in Rural Africa
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 initiated a remarkable pivot within APRA in which a new COVID focussed research programme was rapidly designed, approved and launched. The first APRA COVID-19 blogs appeared ... -
African Media Coverage: APRA’s Contribution to Understanding of Agricultural Change
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)The Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) programme made significant efforts to engage with the local/national media as a way of disseminating research findings and consequent policy implications. This was assisted ... -
Agricultural Commercialisation, Gender Relations and Women Empowerment in Smallholder Farm Households: Evidence from Zimbabwe
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)Agricultural commercialisation has been identified as an important part of the structural transformation process, as the economy grows from subsistence to highly commercialised entities that rely on the market for both ... -
Impact of Commercialisation Pathways on Income and Asset Accumulation: Evidence from Smallholder Farming in Zimbabwe
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)Smallholder agricultural commercialisation has been seen as an important pathway out of rural poverty in developing countries. However, little empirical evidence is available in sub-Saharan Africa that examines the ... -
Can Medium-scale Farms Support Smallholder Commercialisation and Improve Welfare? Evidence from Nigeria
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2022-04-19)In spite of mounting evidence about the growth of medium-scale farms (MSFs) across Africa, there is limited empirical evidence on their impact on neighbouring small-scale farms (SSFs). We examine the relationships between ... -
Agricultural Commercialisation Pathways and Gendered Livelihood Outcomes in Rural South-Western Ghana
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)It is widely assumed that agricultural commercialisation leads to increased incomes and therefore better livelihood outcomes for farmers, including smallholders. But are the gains from commercial agriculture equitably ... -
Pathways to Inclusive Smallholder Agricultural Commercialisation: Which Way Now?
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)Agricultural commercialisation has the potential to provide a number of beneficial outcomes, including higher incomes and living standards for smallholder farmers. However, for these outcomes to be achieved, commercialisation ... -
The Dilemma of Climate-Resilient Agricultural Commercialisation in Tanzania and Zimbabwe
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)The implications of climate change for agricultural commercialisation – and the implications of agricultural commercialisation for climate change – are profound. On the one hand, agricultural production is, by nature, ... -
The Power of Blogs to Share Research and Communicate Policy Lessons
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)Over the course of the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) Programme (2016-22), researchers produced over 150 publications, including Working Papers, Briefs, COVID-19 Papers, Journal Articles and several books. ...
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