Future Agricultures Consortium: Recent submissions
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Long-Term Change And Agricultural Commercialisation In Ghanaian Cocoa
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2020-04-01)This study examines the processes of commercialisation in the cocoa sector in the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) framework. This study examines the different processes of transformation that have occurred ... -
Does Rice Commercialisation Impact on Livelihood? Experience from Mngeta in Kilombero District,Tanzania
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2020-04-01)This paper discusses the livelihood impacts of rice commercialisation for farmers in Mngeta division in Kilombero district in Tanzania. Rice commercialisation occurs where more farmers engage in factor markets and product ... -
Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation in Nigeria
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2020-02-01)This paper interrogates the trajectory of agricultural commercialisation in Nigeria since independence in 1960 – but with a particular focus on the period from 1999–2018 – vis-à-vis the interface of the pathologies of the ... -
Agricultural Commercialisation Pathways, Input Use, and Crop Productivity: Evidence from Smallholder Farmers in Zimbabwe
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2020-03-01)Agricultural commercialisation is increasingly seen as an effective instrument for transforming smallholder production systems and thus increasing the smallholder farmer’s incomes, food security, and other welfare outcomes ... -
Divergent Terms of Market Integration of Agro-Pastoralists: Marketisation and Distress Selling of Livestock in South Omo, Ethiopia
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2020-02-01)The increasing trend of livestock marketing and commercialisation, and its attendant socio-economic consequences, has attracted academic and policy interest. This study investigates the processes of linking pastoralists ... -
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 ...