Future Agricultures Consortium: Recent submissions
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Seeds and Subsidies: The Political Economy of Input Programmes in Malawi
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2010-08)This paper provides a critical account of the cereal seed systems in Malawi both in a historical and contemporary context with particular reference to the three input support programmes implemented since the late 1990s to ... -
Creating New Markets via Smallholder Irrigation: The Case of Irrigation-led Smallholder Commercialization in Lume District, Ethiopia
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2010-06)Following the 2008 global food crises, the agricultural development agenda has gained renewed international attention. Though this observed price instability reflects largely short-term disequilibria between supply and ... -
‘Good Farmers’ in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evolving Narratives
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2011-03)In this paper the example of cocoa production in Ghana is used to explore how the narratives portraying African farmers have changed over the last 70 years. These evolving narratives are explored through the notion of a ... -
Decentralisation in Africa: Scope, Motivations and Impact on Service Delivery and Poverty
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2011-03)This paper reviews the literature on decentralisation in Africa, with a focus on impact on service delivery and poverty reduction. It notes decentralisation is not necessarily good or bad, but success depends on the details ... -
The Long Conversation: Customary Approaches to Peace Management in Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2011-06)This working paper is a contribution to understandings of peace-building among pastoralists. From a pastoralist perspective, it throws light on the achievement of peace in a five-year effort led by leaders of the Borana ... -
Heifer-in-trust, Social Protection and Graduation: Conceptual Issues and Research Questions
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2011-08)The imagery of movement is deeply engrained in development discourse, and particularly in relation to poverty: we commonly talk, for example, of people moving ‘out of poverty’ or ‘up the asset ladder’. Nevertheless, these ... -
Youth and policy processes
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2011-08)The rapid and sustained increase in the number of young people in the global south is one of today’s most significant demographic trends. Around 90 percent of young people reside in developing countries (Shankar 2010). By ... -
Transforming Livelihoods for Resilient Futures: How to Facilitate Graduation in Social Protection
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2011-08)It is frequently claimed that the most innovative feature of social protection, in contrast to safety nets, is that it has the potential to reduce the vulnerability of poor people to the extent that they can manage moderate ... -
Factors Influencing Access to Agricultural Input Subsidy Coupons in Malawi
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2011-12)Since the 2005/06 agricultural season, the government of Malawi has been implementing a targeted agricultural input subsidy programme through the provision of fertilizers and maize seeds to smallholder farmers at subsidized ... -
Gender Analysis: Engaging with Rural Development and Agricultural Policy Processes
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2012-01)One of the great ironies of the last 40 years is that sub-Saharan Africa, a continent of ‘female farming par excellence’ (Boserup 1970), became populated, at least within much development discourse, by rural women represented ... -
From Subsistence to Smallholder Commercial Farming in Malawi: A Case of NASFAM Commercialisation Initiative
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2012-01)This paper investigates the relationship between food security and commercialisation using data from a household survey in National Smallholder Farmer Association of Malawi (NASFAM) operated areas. NASFAM promotes ... -
Gender and Intra-Household Use of Fertilizers in the Malawi Farm Input Subsidy Programme
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2011-12)The Farm Input Subsidy Programme targets households for subsidized farm inputs, and usually it is the head of the household who receives the coupons. Since households tend to have multiple plots which are controlled by ... -
From Negligence to Populism: An Analysis of Mozambique’s Agricultural Political Economy
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2012)The paper analyses the changing configuration of the political system since the Rome Peace Agreement of 1992. It discusses how the “political settlement” underlying the Peace Agreement and the outcomes of multiparty elections ... -
Young People and Policy Narratives in sub-Saharan Africa
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2012-02)This paper is about the portrayal of youth in policy documentation in sub-Saharan Africa. Historically, young people’s engagement with policy and the array of institutions that affect their lives can be characterised by ... -
Agro-dealers, Subsidies and Rural Market Development in Malawi: A Political Economy Enquiry
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2011-12)This paper examines the micro-politics of Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) and the roles of agro-dealers as potential anchors or drivers of a ‘uniquely African Green Revolution’. The drive toward the development ... -
Conceptualising Graduation from Agricultural Input Subsidies in Malawi
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2011-12)The government of Malawi has been implementing a large-scale Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) since 2005/06 as an intervention aimed at improving food security by addressing resource poor smallholder farmers’ affordability ... -
Agro-Dealers and the Political Economy of Agricultural Biotechnology Policy in Kenya
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2011-12)Public and private actors and their networks are committing substantial resources to support agro-dealers to deliver novel technologies and information in line with the New Green Revolution for Africa. The main point of ... -
Initial Conditions and Changes in Commercial Fertilizers under the Farm Input Subsidy Programme in Malawi: Implications for Graduation
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2011-12)The government of Malawi has been implementing agricultural input subsidies since 2005/06 as an intervention aimed at improving food security among resource poor smallholder farmers. Although the issue of graduation is not ... -
Farmer-Based Seed Multiplication in the Ethiopian Seed System: Approaches, Priorities and Performance
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2011-12)At the advent of Ethiopia’s new economic development plan, the Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP) 2010 - 2015, the Farmer-Based Seed Multiplication (FBSM) programme has increased hopes in the strengthening of the country’s ... -
Policy for agriculture and horticulture in Rwanda: a different political economy?
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2012-03)Agricultural development policies in sub-Saharan Africa continue to be weak, and the reasons are to be found in the incentives transmitted to policy makers by countries’ domestic political systems. The enfranchisement of ...