Future Agricultures Consortium: Recent submissions
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Land Reform and New Meaning of Rural Development in Zimbabwe
(International Conference on Public Administration and Development Alternatives, 2019-10-10)This paper reveals new meanings of rural development emerging following a dramatic land reform program and changes in the roles of capital in Zimbabwe. The economy-wide crisis wrought by capital flight in response to the ... -
Medium-Scale Farming as a Policy Tool for Agricultural Commercialisation and Small-Scale Farms Transformation in Nigeria
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)Recent evidence suggests that the changing structure of land ownership in sub-Saharan Africa is one of the major new trends affecting African agri-food systems. Research in several African countries shows a rapid rise of ... -
Agricultural Corridors as ‘Demonstration Fields’: Infrastructure, Fairs and Associations Along the Beira and Nacala Corridors of Mozambique
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2020-03-19)In the past decade, the Mozambican government has been mobilizing international capital to build and renovate transport infrastructure in the central and northern areas of the country, with the aim of creating agricultural ... -
Land, Livelihoods and Belonging: Negotiating Change and Anticipating LAPSSET in Kenya’s Lamu County
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2020-03-17)To attract investments in mineral extraction, physical infrastructure and agricultural commercialization over a vast swathe of Northern Kenya, national politicians and bureaucrats are casting the area as being both abundant ... -
Bureaucrats, Investors and Smallholders: Contesting Land Rights and Agro-commercialisation in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2020-03-21)Since the triple crises of food, fuel and finance of 2007/8, investments in agricultural growth corridors have taken centre-stage in government, donor and private sector initiatives. This article examines the politics of ... -
Hard Work and Hazard: Young People and Agricultural Commercialisation in Africa
(Elsevier Ltd., 2020-04-22)An emerging orthodoxy supports the proposition that the rural economy – built around agriculture but encompassing much more – will serve as sweet spot of employment opportunities for many millions of young people into the ... -
Tobacco Farming Following Land Reform in Zimbabwe: A New Dynamic of Social Differentiation and Accumulation
(Routledge, 2022-04-04)Tobacco has been central to the agrarian economy of Zimbabwe since the early 1900s, when it became the backbone of the new settler economy following colonisation. Since the land reform of 2000, tobacco has taken on a new ... -
Is Agricultural Commercialisation Sufficient for Poverty Reduction? Lessons from Rice Commercialisation in Kilombero, Tanzania
(Journal of Agricultural Economics and Development, 2022-03-01)Agricultural commercialisation is widely promoted as a solution for poverty alleviation among smallholder farmers because it has been associated with rising cash income, improved nutrition and living standards. In Tanzania, ... -
Is Rice and Sunflower Commercialisation in Tanzania Inclusive for Women and Youth?
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)Rice is Tanzania’s third most important staple crop after maize and cassava, and produced by more than 1 million households who are mostly small-scale farmers. Meanwhile sunflower is the most important edible oil crop in ... -
‘Demonstration Fields’, Anticipation, and Contestation: Agrarian Change and the Political Economy of Development Corridors in Eastern Africa
(Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2020-03-18)In much of Eastern Africa, the last decade has seen a renewed interest in spatial development plans that link mineral exploitation, transport infrastructure and agricultural commercialisation. While these development ... -
The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation: Insights from Crop Value Chain Studies in Sub-Saharan Africa
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-03-01)This paper is a synthesis of findings from 11 value chains case studies in six countries across sub- Saharan Africa, carried out as part of the APRA programme during 2020–21. The countries and their respective value chains ... -
Returns to Commercialisation: Gross Margins of Commercial Crops Grown by Smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-03-01)What are the returns to smallholders when they grow commercial crops for sale in rural Africa? The gross value of production per hectare is sometimes reported, with some recent estimates ranging from as much as US$10,000/ha ... -
In the Shadow of Industrial Companies: Class and Spatial Dynamics of Artisanal Palm Oil Processing in Rural Ghana
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-03-01)This paper is concerned with the multiple opportunities and challenges of artisanal palm oil processing and the potential multiplier effects on local economies. It examines the effect of the presence of large oil palm ... -
Spillover Effects of Medium-Scale Farms on Smallholder Behaviour and Welfare: Evidence from Nigeria
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-03-01)Many countries across Africa are seeing an increasing share of farmland being classified as medium-scale farms (MSFs). MSFs are defined as farms operating between 5–100ha. MSFs co-exist with small-scale farms (SSFs, defined ... -
Ghana’s Cocoa Farmers Need to Change Gear: What Policymakers Need to Know, and What They Might Do
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-03-01)Cocoa farmers in Ghana face increasing challenges. In the past, many of them could make a living from cocoa thanks to the advantages – ‘forest rents’ – that initially apply when forest is cleared to create cocoa farms: ... -
Hired Labour Use, Productivity, and Commercialisation: The Case of Rice in Fogera Plain of Ethiopia
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-02-01)With the expansion of rice production in Ethiopia’s Fogera Plain, the rural labour market, highly characterised by the casual unskilled labour supply, has flourished. This is mainly associated with the nature of rice ... -
Achieving Inclusive Oil Palm Commercialisation in Ghana
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-02-01)Oil palm is the most important export crop in Ghana, aside from cocoa. Compared with cocoa, however, oil palm has a more extensive local value chain, including greater opportunity for local industrial and artisanal processing ... -
The Struggle to Intensify Cocoa Production in Ghana: Making a Living from the Forest in Western North
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-02-01)Since cocoa began to be cultivated in the 1880s in southern Ghana, it has created jobs, incomes and prosperity for the many farmers growing the crop. Until recently, cocoa farmers could make use of highly favourable ... -
A Revisit of Farm Size and Productivity: Empirical Evidence from a Wide Range of Farm Sizes in Nigeria
(Elsevier Ltd., 2021-06-04)The relationship between farm size and productivity has been studied extensively in the agricultural and development economics literature. However, most of the documented evidence in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is based on ... -
Private and State-Led Contract Farming in Zimbabwe: Accumulation, Social Differentiation and Rural Politics
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2021-12-17)Contract farming schemes often amplify existing patterns of socio-economic differentiation. In Zimbabwe, processes of differentiation were underway before the current expansion of contract farming and they have deepened ...