In early 2013, Future Agricultures moved to a regional structure to support our growing network of researchers in Africa and beyond.

In these short videos, the co-ordinators of our three ‘hubs’ in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa, and our CAADP co-ordinator, explain their vision for Future Agricultures in Africa: working within countries, regions and across Africa to share learning and engage with policy.

The hubs support a network of over 90 researchers looking at the politics of agriculture, and how to improve policy for poor people and smallholder farmers, in 14 countries in Africa.

Future Agricultures is an Africa-based alliance of research organisations seeking to provide timely, high-quality and independent information and advice to improve agricultural policy and practice in Africa.

The Consortium involves over 90 senior researchers and post-graduate students from leading African and UK institutions working with a wide range of partners.

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Future Agricultures explores what needs to be done to get different forms of agriculture – food/cash crops, livestock/pastoralism, smallholdings/contract farming/large holdings – moving on a track of increasing productivity and competitiveness.

We do this through work in 10 themes, examining how agricultural policy is made and put into practice in different settings, and how this could be improved.

As well as writing articles and papers, Future Agricultures members are involved in lead editorial roles in a number of prestigious academic journals.

The list below includes some of the titles where our members have a significant role.

Future Agricultures is an alliance of researchers around three regional hubs related to the major regional economic communities in Africa, and a fourth hub in Europe.

Each hub is linked to and supports a network of national, regional, and international partners that provide academically-robust, policy-focused research and advice on agricultural policy processes in Africa.

The hubs carry out four key activities:

The guiding principle of the Consortium is that agriculture, despite its often gloomy record and poor reputation, is a crucial pathway out of poverty in Africa: absorbing labour, producing food and generating economic growth, both within and perhaps most importantly beyond the agricultural sector.

Agriculture is thus a vital engine of economic growth, especially in Africa.