Future Agricultures Consortium: Recent submissions
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Gender and Livelihoods in Commercial Sugarcane Production: A Case Study of Contract Farming in Magobbo, Zambia
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2016-06-06)This paper presents a case study of farmers’ recent transition from growing traditional crops to cultivating sugarcane under a contract farming arrangement in Magobbo, Zambia. Responding to the need for a greater understanding ... -
Plantation, outgrower and mediumscale commercial farming in Ghana: which model provides better prospects for local development?
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2016-05-30)Different agricultural commercialisation models produce different local development benefits. African governments are making important policy choices in their quest to modernise agriculture, with some promoting largescale ... -
Researching Land and Commercial Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa with a Gender Perspective: Concepts, Issues and Methods
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015-10-31)This paper offers critical reflections on the concepts, issues and methods that are important for integrating a gender perspective into mainstream research and policy-making on land and agricultural commercialisation in ... -
The Challenges of China’s Food and Feed Economy
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015-09-01)China’s transformation from a net food exporter to a net food importer has occurred in a very short period of time and this has implications for both China and the world. This paper argues that there is strategic and ... -
Perseverance in the Face of Hardship: Chinese Smallholder Farmers’ Engagements in Ghanaian Agriculture
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015-08-01)This paper uses qualitative research methods to study small-scale Chinese farmers in Ghana, in contrast to research generally found in mainstream media and academic literature which focuses on large-scale Chinese farms in ... -
Blurring the Lines between Aid and Business in the Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centre in Zimbabwe
(2015-08-01)In recent years, tremendous attention has been given to China’s burgeoning agricultural engagements in Africa. Due to limited access to these engagements, most discussions have focused on macro-level discourse analysis as ... -
Copying the Extension System of China and Beyond: Implementing the Chinese Agriculture Technology Demonstration Centre in Ethiopia
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015-08-01)The Chinese Agriculture Technology Demonstration Centre (ATDC) in Ethiopia is an aid project on agricultural technology cooperation between China and Ethiopia. The process of cooperation is the art of improvising on the ... -
Travelling Technocratic Rationality: Historical Narratives of China’s Agricultural Development and their Implications for China- Africa Agricultural Cooperation
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015-08-01)Contemporary China-Africa agricultural cooperation (CAAC) has been internally dominated by three streams of narrative: promotion of food security for state building in the post-war landscape; productivity enhancement through ... -
Interpreting China-Africa Agricultural Encounters: Rhetoric and Reality in a Large Scale Rice Project in Mozambique
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015-08-01)In recent years, China’s burgeoning agricultural investment in Africa has attracted tremendous attention from media, academics and policymakers worldwide. The macro-level discussions around the nature and significance of ... -
Mixed Starts and Uncertain Futures: Case Studies of Three Chinese Agricultural Investments in Zimbabwe
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015-07-01)Chinese agricultural investments in Africa have grown significantly in the past two decades, but there remains very little empirical research on the nature of these investments. This paper aims to address this knowledge ... -
Rising Powers and Rice in Ghana: China, Brazil and African agricultural development
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015-07-01)This paper examines the nature of Chinese and Brazilian investments in agricultural development by focusing on the irrigated rice sector in Ghana. It examines this through a historic perspective that traces policy towards ... -
The Political Economy of State Business Relations in Chinese Development Cooperation in Africa
(The Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015-06-01)The growing involvement of the Chinese state and business in Africa has generated significant debate about China’s Africa strategy and its benefits for Africa’s development. Chinese policymakers have become increasingly ... -
Creating Policy Space for Pastoralism in Kenya
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013-07-01)This paper reflects on the work of the Ministry of State for Development of Northern Kenya and other Arid Lands between its formation in April 2008 and the elections of March 2013. The paper begins by summarising the ... -
New Development Encounters: China and Brazil in African Agriculture
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2013-07-03)There is currently much talk of the role of the ‘rising powers’ in Africa, and whether their engagements represent a ‘new paradigm’ in development cooperation. This article introduces this IDS Bulletin and examines Brazilian ... -
How Brazil’s Agrarian Dynamics Shape Development Cooperation in Africa
(Wiley, 2013)This article shows how Brazil’s history of agrarian dynamics shapes development cooperation. In particular, Brazil’s dualistic agrarian structure frames policy discourse, and shapes development cooperation thinking and ... -
Brazil and China in Mozambican Agriculture: Emerging Insights from the Field
(Wiley, 2013)Mozambique, a country undergoing rapid transformations driven by the recent discovery of mineral resources, is one of the top destinations of Chinese and Brazilian cooperation and investment in Africa. This article provides ... -
South-South Cooperation in Africa: Historical, Geopolitical and Political Economy Dimensions of International Development
(Wiley, 2013)This article examines how neoliberal reforms mediate and influence relationships between emergent powers and African nations centred on agricultural development. It investigates the impact of South- South relations on the ... -
Reviving Zimbabwe’s Agriculture: The Role of China and Brazil
(Wiley, 2013)From 2000, after Zimbabwe embarked on a major land reform programme, the country was isolated economically and diplomatically by the Western countries. Agricultural financing dried up, and traditional Western donors only ... -
Expanding Agribusiness: China and Brazil in Ghanaian Agriculture
(Wiley, 2013)This article examines the extent, framing and structure of Chinese and Brazilian investments in Ghana. It outlines the changing political economy of the agrarian sector, in the context of market liberalisation and the rise ... -
Negotiating New Relationships: How the Ethiopian State is Involving China and Brazil in Agriculture and Rural Development
(Wiley, 2013)This article provides an overview of Brazilian and Chinese agricultural development cooperation activities in Ethiopia. In the context of a highly aid-dependent country, the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) has developed an ...