Future Agricultures Publications and Presentations

All papers and reports are in (pdf) format unless otherwise noted.

 

 

Policy Briefs

Ethiopia

• Pathways for Ethiopian Agriculture: Options and Scenarios
  (151 KB)
  
• Agriculture, Growth and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia: Policy Processes Around the New PRSP (PASDEP) (54 KB)
• Food Aid and Small-holder Agriculture in Ethiopia (98 KB)
• Land, Land Policy and Smallholder Agriculture in Ethiopia
  (183 KB)
  
• Intensification of Ethiopian Smallholder Agriculture (88 KB)

Kenya

• Using Social Protection to Reduce Vulnerability and Promote Economic Growth in Kenya (220 KB)
  
• The Politics of Policy Reforms in Kenya’s Dairy Sector (250 KB)
  
• The Limits of Success: The Case of the Dairy Sector in Kenya
  (54 KB)
• Agricultural Policy in Kenya
  Part 1: Policy Issues and the Strategy for Revitalising Agriculture (178 KB)
  Part 2: Policy Processes, Structures and Actors (53 KB)

Malawi

• Fertiliser Subsidies: Lessons from Malawi for Kenya (371 KB)
• The Malawi Fertiliser Subsidy Programme: politics and pragmatism (1.6 MB)
  
• Smallholder Coffee Commercialisation in Malawi (301 KB)
  
• Malawi’s Agriculture Ministry: Fit for Purpose? (147 KB)
  
• The Social Protection Policy in Malawi: Processes, Politics and Challenges (161 KB)
  

Thematic Papers

Policy Processes

• Narratives of Agricultural Policy in Africa: What Role for Ministries of Agriculture?(87 KB)
  
• Donor Policy Narratives: What Role for Agriculture?(53 KB)
• Politics and the Future of Ministries of Agriculture:Rethinking Roles and Transforming Agendas (WDR briefing) (53 KB)
  
• Rising Food Prices: A global crisis(163 KB)

Agricultural Commercialisation

• Rethinking Agricultural Input Subsidies in Poor Rural Economies (261 KB)
  
• Agricultural Commercialisations – A Level Playing Field for Smallholders? (107 KB)

Growth and Social Protection

• Promoting Agriculture for Social Protection or Social Protection for Agriculture?
  Part 1: Concepts and Frameworks (221 KB)
  Part 2: Policy Approaches & Emerging Questions (58 KB)
• Series of Policy Briefs and Working Papers
  • Agriculture and Social Protection in Africa (65KB)
  • Agriculture and Social Protection in Malawi:
    Fertiliser Policies and Politics (68KB)
  • Agriculture and Social Protection in Ethiopia:
    The Politics of Land and ‘Graduation’ (57KB)
  • Agriculture and Social Protection in Ghana:
    A LEAP in the Dark? (KB)
    
    
  • Building synergies between social protection
    and smallholder agricultural policies (244KB)
  • Agriculture and Social Protection in Malawi (368KB)
  • Agriculture and Social Protection in Ethiopia (358KB)
  • Agriculture and Social Protection in Ghana (264KB)
  • Social Protection for Agricultural Growth in Africa (248KB)
  • Seasonality and Social Protection in Africa (589KB)

Special Projects

• Challenges and Opportunities for Strengthening Farmers Organisations in Africa: Lessons from Ethiopia, Kenya and Malawi(4.1 MB)
• The "Seven Habits of Highly Effective Farmers' Organisations"(4.1 MB)

Research Papers and Reports

• Evaluation of Malawi Input Subsidy Programme 2006/07
  (605 KB)
  
• CAADP Review & Partnership Platform Meeting (March 17-20 2008) (321 KB)
  
• The Politics of Decentralisation in Southern Africa(209 KB)
  
• Promoting Agriculture for Social Protection or Social Protection for Agriculture: Strategic Policy and Research Issues Discussion Paper (663 KB)
  
• Narratives of Agricultural Policy in Africa: What Role for Ministries of Agriculture? (515 KB)
• Future Agricultures Stakeholder Workshop (Ethiopia) (224 KB)
• Agriculture, Growth and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia: Policy Processes Around the New PRSP (PASDEP) (371 KB)
• Food Aid and Small-holder Agriculture in Ethiopia: Options and Scenarios (288 KB)
• Land, Land Policy and Smallholder Agriculture in Ethiopia: Options and Scenarios (305 KB)
• Intensification of Smallholder Agriculture in Ethiopia: Options and Scenarios (322 KB)
• Agricultural Policy in Kenya (417 KB)
• Agricultural Development Issues in Kenya (169 KB)
• Future Scenarios for Agriculture in Malawi: Challenges and Dilemmas (511 KB)
• Stakeholder Consultation Workshops (Malawi) (354 KB)
  
  

Working / Discussion Papers

• Pastoral Innovation Systems: Perspectives from Ethiopia and Kenya (1 MB)
• Commercialisation of Smallholder Agriculture in Selected Tef-growing Areas of Ethiopia (566 KB)
  
• Agricultural Commercialisation in Coffee Growing Areas of Ethiopia (749 KB)
• Synthesis Report for Theme III: Growth and Social Protection. June 2005–September 2007 (160 KB)
  
• Resurrecting the Vestiges of a Developmental State in Malawi? Reflections and Lessons from the 2005/2006 Fertilizer Subsidy Programme (322 KB)
  
• Commercialisations in Agriculture (324 KB)
• The Revitalisation of Kenya Cooperative Creameries: The Politics of Policy Reforms in the Dairy Sector in Kenya (245 KB)
• Reforming the Smallholder Coffee Sector in Malawi : A Case Study of Smallholder Commercialisation (307 KB)
• The Social Protection Policy in Malawi: Processes, Politics and Challenges (325 KB)
• Reclaiming Policy Space: Lessons from Malawi's 2005/2006 Fertilizer Subsidy Programme (329 KB)
• Using Social Protection Policies to Reduce Vulnerability and Promote Economic Growth in Kenya (730 KB)
• Rethinking Agricultural Input Subsidies in Poor Rural Economies (116 KB)
• Reforming agricultural policy: lessons from four countries (871 KB)
  

Presentations

• FAC - An Overview of Issues and Activities (314 KB)
• Summary of Commercialisations Workshop: Consultation with Future Agricultures Malawi Team. Zomba , Malawi , 9th August 2007 (121 KB)
• Summary of Commercialisations Workshop: Consultation with Future Agricultures Commercialisation in Ethiopia (FACE) Team. Addis Ababa Feb 9 th -10 th 2007
  Policymaking in a Federal Context (113 KB)
• Policy and Process in Kenya (901 KB)
• The Fall and Rise of Smallholder Agriculture? (138 KB)
• Commercialisations in Smallholder Agriculture: A General Framework (132 KB)
• Commercialisation in Ethiopia: Which pathways? (284 KB)
• Commercialisation of Smallholder Agriculture in Coffee and Tef Growing Areas of Ethiopia (137 KB)
• Rethinking Agricultural Input Subsidies: growth and social protection impacts & interactions (1.6 MB)
• Andrew Dorward. Sequencing of Investments for Agricultural Growth, Poverty Reduction and Food Security. Presentation to ReSAAKS Workshop, Joannesburg , October 2006 (140 KB)

• FAC Overview (1.6 MB)

• Farmer Organisation Study (4 MB)

• Social Protection in Malawi, Kenya and Ethiopia (4 MB)

Other relevant, recent publications
by FAC researchers

• ‘Debating Social Protection’, IDS Bulletin vol. 38, no. 3, (2007), special issue edited by Stephen Devereux and Rachel Sabates-Wheeler.
• ‘Vulnerability and Social Protection in Malawi’, IDS Discussion Paper 387 (2007), by Stephen Devereux, Bob Baulch, Ian McAuslan, Alexander Phiri and Rachel Sabates-Wheeler.
  Funding agriculture: Not ‘how much?’ but ‘what for?’, ODI Opinion 86 (2007), October, by Lidia Cabral
• ‘Bottom-up Policy Process: An Agenda for Future Agricultures in Ethiopia’ The Ethiopian Herald (English), Saturday 23 June 2007, by Amdissa Teshome (123 KB)

Other research

• Growth from Agriculture in Ethiopia: Identifying Key Constraints (1 MB)

• Rethinking Agriculture and Growth in Ethiopia: A Conceptual Discussion (319 KB)

• In Search of a Strategy: Rethinking Agriculture-led Growth in Ethiopia (329 KB)

• In Search of a Strategy: Rethinking Agriculture-led Growth in Ethiopia (summary) (104 KB)