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, 2018-05-01)This country review aims to identify the key dynamics, actors and associated discourses of agricultural commercialisation in Ethiopia. To this end, we aim to shed light on the forces and factors that influence policy ... -
Rural Transitions, Economies and Rural–Urban Links
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2018-03-01)Agricultural development takes place within the wider context of overall economic development. In the process, changes in agriculture – such as the increased commercialisation of farms in general and smallholdings in ... -
The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation in Zimbabwe
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2018-04-01)Debates on Zimbabwe’s agricultural development have centred on different framings of agriculture viability and land redistribution, which are often antagonistic. Yet, emerging evidence of agricultural commercialisation ... -
Agricultural Commercialisation Pathways Climate Change and Agriculture
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2018-02-01)This paper presents a review of recent literature on the implications of climate change for agricultural commercialisation, focusing chiefly on sub-Saharan Africa, and incorporating evidence, where relevant, from around ... -
Partnerships, Platforms and Policies: Strengthening Farmer Capacity to Harness Technological Innovation for Agricultural Commercialisation
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2018-02-12)Innovation capacity presupposes capacity to harness science, technology and innovation (STI) for agricultural commercialisation. Agricultural commercialisation requires an enabling policy environment on STI issues such as ... -
Food Security, Nutrition and Commercialisation in sub-Saharan Africa – a Synthesis of Afrint Findings
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2017-09-01)While macro-level data as well as sub-sector studies across a number of African countries suggest improvements in agricultural production over the past couple of decades, the extent to which such growth has been based ... -
Agricultural Growth Corridors on the Eastern Seaboard of Africa: an Overview
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2017-09-01)This Working Paper describes and critically reviews the recent emergence of agricultural growth corridors and other types of corridor with a prominent agricultural component. It offers a descriptive overview and poses some ... -
Pro-Poor Agricultural Growth – Village Dynamics and Commercialisation Pathways
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2017-09-01)This paper takes a village-level perspective, drawing on an earlier study that used the same data, which suggested that patterns of pro-poor agricultural growth were highly spatially concentrated to particular villages. ... -
Gender and Rural Livelihoods: Agricultural Commercialisation and Farm Non-Farm Diversification
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2017-09-01)The resurrection of smallholder-based development approaches in the early 2000s renewed a longstanding focus on small farmers after the lost decades of the 1980s and 1990s. Under the conceptual umbrella of ‘propoor ... -
APRA Policy Processes and Political Economy: Tanzania Country Review
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2017-10-01)The objective of this review is to highlight key features of the political landscape that are considered to affect both the prospects for and the outcomes of agricultural commercialisation in Tanzania. It will highlight ... -
What is Agricultural Commercialisation, Why is it Important, and how do we Measure it?
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2017-11-01)Agricultural commercialisation occurs when agricultural enterprises and/or the agricultural sector as a whole rely increasingly on the market for the sale of produce and for the acquisition of production inputs, including ... -
Agricultural Commercialisation: Lessons from Asia and Latin America
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2018-01-01)This paper aims to draw out lessons from experiencesof smallholder commercialisation in Asia and Latin America that may be instructive for sub-Saharan Africa. It addresses the following questions: To what extent has ... -
Social Difference and Women’s Empowerment in the Context of the Commercialisation of African Agriculture
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2018-01-01)This paper was commissioned to support the research design activities of the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) Consortium, generating new evidence on pathways to agricultural commercialisation, on the theme ... -
Farmer First Revisited: Innovation for Agricultural Research, Workshop Summary:
(2008-04-01)In July 1987, some 50 social and natural scientists of roughly equal numbers met at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, UK, for a workshop on ‘Farmers and Agricultural Research: Complementary ... -
Beyond ‘family farming versus agribusiness’ dualism: unpacking the complexity of Brazil’s agricultural model
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2016-11)Agriculture has played a hugely important role in the recent history of Brazil’s economy. The country had a food production deficit until as late as the 1970s, but since the early twenty-first century has been one of the ... -
Social movements, agrarian change and the contestation of ProSAVANA in Mozambique and Brazil
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2016-11)ProSAVANA, the Mozambique-Brazil-Japan Cooperation Programme for the Agricultural Development of the Savannah of Mozambique, is the most visible of Brazil’s international agricultural cooperation projects. In the period ... -
The New Alliance on Food Security and Nutrition: What are the Implications for Africa’s Youth?
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2016-07)The ‘New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition’ (hereafter the ‘New Alliance’) is a partnership which was established between selected African countries, G8 members, and the private sector to ‘work together to accelerate ... -
Research Findings: Models of Commercial Agriculture in Kenya
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2016-07)Kenya provides a compelling case study of market driven agricultural evolution over the past century. Agriculture played a singular role in the development of the modern Kenyan economy, and while Kenyan agriculture was ... -
Agricultural Commercialisation in Meru County, Kenya: What are the Policy Implications?
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2016-07)Contemporary processes of agrarian change tend to favour larger-scale, more consolidated farms over smallholders, while Kenya’s agricultural policy tends to promote export oriented commercial farming. These tensions, evident ... -
Evidence from three models of land and agricultural commercialisation: Impacts on local livelihoods in Zambia
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2016-05-18)Zambia needs to undergo structural transformation triggered by increased agricultural and rural labour productivity if it is to achieve improved growth and broad-based poverty reduction. The current experience, however, ...