Future Agricultures Consortium: Recent submissions
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The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation in Ethiopia: Discourses, Actors and Structural Impediments
(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 ... -
Policy Processes and Political Economy: Ghana Country Review
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2018-10-01)This brief is based on a longer working paper, which examines the political economy of agricultural commercialisation in Ghana from 2000–2018. The relationship between a changing political landscape and agricultural policy ... -
Understanding Gender and Social Differentiation in the Context of Agricultural Commercialisation and Implications for Livelihoods in Rural Malawi
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-05-01)Agricultural commercialisation is widely recognised as a catalyst to economic growth and development in low and middle-income countries. This study investigates gender and social differences in agricultural commercialisation ... -
Agricultural Commercialisation and the Political Economy of Value Chains: Tanzania Rice Case Study
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-03-01)This paper presents the political economy of rice commercialisation in Tanzania. It is based on a review of trade policies, regulations, strategies, and programmes implemented since the 1960s to promote rice commercialisation, ... -
The Political Economy of the Cocoa Value Chain in Ghana
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-03-01)The cocoa sector has, historically, been the backbone of the Ghanaian economy. Many households depend directly on the cocoa sector for livelihoods, and aspects of the cocoa industry, such as input supplies to farmers and ... -
The Political Economy of the Groundnut Value Chain in Malawi: Its Re-Emergence Amidst Policy Chaos, Strategic Neglect, and Opportunism
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-03-01)This paper explores the political economy of the groundnut value chain in Malawi. The paper uses a combination of insights from the theoretical perspectives of political settlement, rents and policymaking to examine this ... -
Covid-19 and the Political Economy of Tobacco and Maize Commodity Circuits: Makoronyera, the ‘Connected’ and Agrarian Accumulation in Zimbabwe
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-03-01)This paper analyses the global commodity circuits – value chains – for maize and tobacco in Zimbabwe, in the context of a reconfigured agrarian economy and COVID-19 induced shocks. The study focuses on the political economy ... -
Political Economy of the Oil Palm Value Chain in Ghana
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-03-01)Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) is of strategic importance to the Ghanaian economy. It is the second most important industrial crop after cocoa and is used widely in local food preparation as well as in industrial processing. ... -
The Covid-19 Pandemic and Household Rice Consumption Patterns in Ethiopia: The Case of Addis Ababa
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-04-01)The outbreak of COVID-19 also resulted in moderate changes to the operation of the domestic rice value chain in Ethiopia. These were caused by changing responses of value chain actors (domestic and others engaged in rice ... -
Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Zimbabwe - Round 1 Report
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2020-09-01)COVID-19 has undoubtedly affected lives and livelihoods across the globe. In Zimbabwe, preliminary indications point to a worsening economic situation in a country already facing macroeconomic challenges, particularly in ... -
Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Zambia – Round 1 Report
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2020-12-01)To assess the impact of COVID-19 on local food systems and livelihoods, a total of 115 small-scale farming households (102 male- and 13 female headed) were interviewed from five communities (Lilanda, Luang (Mankanda), ... -
Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Malawi – Round 1 Report
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2020-09-01)Given the ravaging effects of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, this study seeks to estimate its likely impact on food systems and livelihoods in Malawi. This briefing note is based on our stratified random sample of 114 ... -
Of Zinc Roofs and Mango Trees: Tractors, the State and Agrarian Dualism in Mozambique
(Taylor and Francis, 2021-03-11)This paper reviews the latest mechanisation programme by the Mozambican government, asking how it is politically driven and how it shapes and is shaped by agrarian structures. Old ideas about agrarian dualism are reproduced ... -
Determinants of Smallholder Farmers’ Livelihood Trajectories: Evidence from Rural Malawi
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-02-01)The authors of this paper attempt use quantitative methods to determine the different factors of livelihood trajectories in the context of agricultural commercialisation. To do this, they draw on primary evidence from ... -
Agricultural Commercialisation and the Political Economy of Cocoa and Rice Value Chains in Nigeria
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-02-01)Nigeria has sought to diversify its economy away from dependence on oil as a major source of government revenue through agricultural commercialisation. Agriculture has been a priority sector because it has very high growth ... -
The Political Economy of the Rice Value Chain in Ethiopia: Actors, Performance, and Discourses
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-02-01)The goal of this working paper is to identify the core challenges that have contributed to the poor performance of Ethiopia’s rice sector, and highlight approaches to successfully promote the commercialisation of the rice ... -
The Political Economy of Sunflower in Tanzania: A Case of Singida Region
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2021-02-01)This paper looks at the challenges and shortcomings facing the sunflower sub-sector in Tanzania. It showcases the political economy of sunflower based on analyses of the performance of the sector over a 30-year period since ... -
The Resurgence of Agricultural Mechanisation in Ethiopia: Rhetoric or Real Commitment?
(Taylor and Francis Online, 2021-01-31)Ethiopia’s agricultural development strategies bypassed smallholder mechanisation for decades. Mechanisation returned to the policy agenda in 2013 but recent pro-mechanisation rhetoric lacks operational commitments. Based ... -
Rapid Assessment of the Impact of Covid-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa. APRA COVID-19 Synthesis Report 2
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2020-12-01)This report presents a summary of findings emerging from the second round of a three-wave rapid assessment led by the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) Programme of the Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC) in ... -
Rapid Evidence Review: Policy interventions to mitigate negative effects on poverty, agriculture and food security from disease outbreaks and other crises
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2020-05-20)This review was commissioned by DFID to draw lessons from previous shocks (e.g. Ebola outbreak, MERS, SARS, the food price crisis of 2008/09) that may be relevant to dealing with the consequences of COVID-19 in developing ...