Future Agricultures Consortium: Recent submissions
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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. ... -
A Multi-Phase Assessment of the Effects of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)Since it began in early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic led to considerable concerns about the viability of local food systems and rural livelihoods across sub-Saharan Africa. This paper presents the results of a three-round ... -
Making the Most of the Media
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)To disseminate policy-relevant messages based on APRA research at country and regional levels, the Information and Communication and Engagement (ICE) team encouraged country teams to build relationships with the media from ... -
Investing in Social Media Pays Big Dividends
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)Over the past six years, the use of social media, including Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp, has been a vital part of APRA’s Communications Strategy in raising awareness of the programme’s activities and outputs. Since 2016, ... -
e-Dialogues Spark Debate on the Dynamics of Agricultural Commercialisation
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)In early 2022, the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) Programme of the Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC), in partnership with the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Foresight4Food, ... -
Communicating New Evidence Through APRA Working Papers and Briefs
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) has been a six-year research programme of the Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC), aiming to identify the most effective pathways to agricultural commercialisation that empower ... -
The Effects of COVID-19 on Food Equity and Nutrition Security in sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from a Multi-Phase Assessment
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)The COVID-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa has elicited reactions that are also seen worldwide: widespread and indefinite health effects, and deep reverberations on almost all parts of daily life, from livelihoods, to ... -
The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation: Insights from Crop Value Chain Studies in Sub-Saharan Africa
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)Agricultural commercialisation is seen as one of the most important avenues for fundamental structural transformation and development in sub-Saharan Africa, and is assumed to help enhance a wide array of household welfare ... -
Publishing Evidence: APRA’s Contribution to Knowledge on the Pathways to Inclusive Agricultural Commercialisation in Africa
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)Overall, it is considered that the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) programme has contributed a significant body of additional, rigorous, trusted and accessible published knowledge on the effect of agrarian ... -
Revisiting the Farm Size-Productivity Relationship Based on a Relatively Wide Range of Farm Sizes: Evidence from Kenya
(Oxford University Press, 2019-03-25)This paper revisits the inverse farm size-productivity relationship in Kenya. The study makes two contributions. First, the relationship is examined over a much wider range of farm sizes than most studies, which is ... -
Changing Farm Size Distributions and Agricultural Transformation in sub-Saharan Africa
(Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2021-11-08)We review the literature on the distribution of farm sizes in sub-Saharan Africa, trends over time, drivers of change in farm structure, and effects on agricultural transformation, and present new evidence for six countries. ...