Future Agricultures Consortium: Recent submissions
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What can Africa Learn from China's Experience in Agricultural Development?
(2013)There has been a growing interest in China’s rapid economic growth, particularly agriculture-led growth and poverty reduction. In fact, China and Africa have developed their agriculture under different historical conditions. ... -
Chinese Agriculture Development Cooperation in Africa: Narratives and Politics
(Wiley, 2013)Chinese agriculture engagements are redefining the 'aid‘ landscape, moving from a paradigm of development assistance to one of development cooperation mixed with investment. China‘s leadership asserts that this approach ... -
Brazil-Africa Agricultural Cooperation Encounters: Drivers, Narratives and Imaginaries of Africa and Development
(Wiley, 2013)Brazilian development cooperation is increasingly in the spotlight. Africa is a major destination and agriculture tops the list of priority fields on intervention, with Embrapa leading cooperation projects. But patterns ... -
Reforming Agricultural Policy: Lessons from Four Countries
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2006-07)Comparing reform of agricultural policy in Bangladesh, Chile, China and New Zealand, this paper derives lessons for countries contemplating reform. In all cases reforms to farm policy were undertaken as part of overall ... -
Agriculture and Social Protection in Malawi
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2009-01)This paper reviews social protection and agriculture policies in Malawi in order to explore the links, synergies and conflicts that lie between them. It begins with brief background information about Malawi, in terms of ... -
Agriculture and Social Protection in Ethiopia
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2009-01)Agriculture and social protection in Ethiopia are inextricably interconnected. Smallholder farming is the dominant livelihood activity for the majority of Ethiopians, but it is also the major source of vulnerability to ... -
Seasonality and Social Protection in Africa
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2009-01)This Working Paper draws on nearly twenty years of research in several African countries on the inter-related themes of food insecurity, seasonality, coping strategies, famine, formal and informal safety nets and social ... -
Commercialisations in Agriculture
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2007-09)According to this thinking, smallholder agriculture is uniquely positioned to deliver broad-based growth in rural areas (where the vast majority of the world‟s poor still live). However, others fear that strategies for ... -
Cash Transfers and High Food Prices: Explaining Outcomes on Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2010-01)An ongoing and highly politicised debate concerns the relative efficacy of cash transfers versus food aid. This paper aims to shed light on this debate, drawing on new empirical evidence from Ethiopia’s Productive Safety ... -
Building synergies between social protection and smallholder agricultural policies
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2009-01)The paper explores how social protection and agricultural policies interact, creating either synergies or conflicts between them. To the extent that social protection measures help poor rural people expand their assets, ... -
The Political Economy of Ethiopian Cereal Seed Systems: State Control, Market Liberalisation and Decentralisation
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2010-08)This paper presents the political and economic processes governing Ethiopian cereal seed systems by analysing the overall policy context, as well as the main interests driving seed policy formulation and implementation and ... -
Social Protection and Agricultural Development in Kenya
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2009-03)This paper focuses on social protection programs in Kenya’s agriculture. A case study approach was used where three cases were examined: (a) emergency seed distribution in the arid and semi-arid lands and remote areas which ... -
Agriculture and Social Protection in Ghana
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2009-01)Ghana was one of the first countries in Africa to embark on structural adjustment reforms. 25 years on, its continuing commitment to reform for national economic development has yielded impressive gains in growth and poverty ... -
Reforming Agricultural Policy: Lessons from Four Countries
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2006-07)Comparing reform of agricultural policy in Bangladesh, Chile, China and New Zealand, this paper derives lessons for countries contemplating reform. In all cases reforms to farm policy were undertaken as part of overall ... -
Can the smallholder model deliver poverty reduction and food security
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2009-07)Despite the achievements of smallholders in Asia during the green revolution, there is scepticism that Africa’s smallholders — who dominate the farm area in most countries — can imitate this model and deliver agricultural ... -
Linking Agricultural Development to School Feeding
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2010-06)This paper is an output from the initial phase of the Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) Project which is funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and implemented by the Partnership for Child Development at Imperial ... -
Social Protection for Agricultural Growth in Africa
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2009-01)Various explanations have been advanced for the persistent under‑performance of agriculture in many African countries, where smallholder farming is still the dominant livelihood activity and the main source of employment, ... -
Can Agro-Dealers Deliver the Green Revolution in Kenya?
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2010-08)The Government of Kenya, with the backing of development and charitable organisations, has been implementing programmes to increase agricultural productivity and rural incomes and trigger a new Green Revolution (GR). These ... -
The Political Economy of Cereal Seed Systems in Zimbabwe: Rebuilding the Seed System in a Post-Crisis
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2010-08)A decade of economic and political turmoil in Zimbabwe, as well as a period of radical land reform which reconfigured the country’s agricultural sector, dramatically affected its seed system, reducing supply of quality ... -
Participation, Commercialisation and Actor Networks: The Political Economy of Cereal Seed Production
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2010-08)This paper examines the changing framework of cereal seed policy in Ghana from a state-led public sector service in the 1960s to a commercial sector activity in the 2000s, and the implications of these changes. The work ...
