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Journal Article: Heterogeneous Market Participation Channels and Household Welfare

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Journal Article: Precarious Prospects? Exploring Climate Resilience of Agricultural Commercialization Pathways in Tanzania and Zimbabwe

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Journal Article: The Politics of Policy Failure in Ghana: The Case of Oil Palm

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Journal Article: Building Twenty-first Century Agricultural Research and Extension Capacity in Africa

Journal Article: Gender Disparity in Cocoa Production Resource Access and Food Security in Ogun State, Nigeria

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APRA Working Paper 95: Agricultural Technology, Food Security and Nutrition: Insight From Oil Palm Smallholders in Ghana

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Journal Article: Determinants of Farmer’s Decision to Transit to Medium/Larger Farm Through Expansion of Land Area Under Commercial Tree Crop Plantation in Nigeria

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APRA Working Paper 94: The Farm Size-Productivity Relationship: Evidence From Panel Data Analysis of Small- and Medium-Scale Farms in Nigeria

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ALRE Working Paper 7: Informing the Debate on the Rise of Medium-Scale Farmers in Africa

ALRE Research Note 6: ALRE Report on Evidence Demand on Inclusive Agricultural Commercialisation in Africa

ALRE Research Note 5: Lessons Learnt From Delivering the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) Programme

Journal Article: Does Women’s Engagement in Sunflower Commercialization Empower Them? Experience From Singida region, Tanzania 

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ALRE Working Paper 6: Rice: APRA’s Contribution to Informing and Influencing Policy Debates Around Rice in East Africa

ALRE Working Paper 5: Accompanied Learning: Reflections on How ALRE Enhanced APRA’s Relevance and Effectiveness

APRA ICE Insight 6: Raising the Profile of Agricultural Policy Research: National Engagement as a Pathway to Change

APRA Working Paper 93: Changing Farm Structure and Agricultural Commercialisation: Implications for Livelihood Improvements Among Small-Scale Farmers in Nigeria

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APRA Working Paper 92: Livelihood Outcomes of Agricultural Commercialisation, Women’s Empowerment and Rural Employment

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APRA Working Paper 91: Effects of Commercialisation on Seaonsal Hunger: Evidence from Smallholder Resettlement Areas, Mazowe Distrct, Zimbabwe

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Journal Article: Livestock, Crop Commercialization and Poverty Reduction in Crop-Livestock Farming Systems in Singida Region, Tanzania

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Journal Article: Choice of Tillage Technologies and Impact on Paddy Yield and Food Security in Kilombero Valley, Tanzania

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ALRE Working Paper 4: COVID-19: APRA’s Contribution to Understanding the Effects in Rural Africa

ALRE Working Paper 3: African Media Coverage: APRA’s Contribution to Understanding of Agricultural Change

The Effects of COVID-19 on Food Equity and Nutrition Security in sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from a Multi-Phase Assessment

A Multi-Phase Assessment of the Effects of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa – Synthesis Report 3

APRA ICE Insight 5: The Power of Blogs to Share Research and Communicate Policy Lessons

APRA ICE Insight 4: e-Dialogues Spark Debate on the Dynamics of Agricultural Commercialisation

APRA ICE Insight 3: Communicating New Evidence Through APRA Working Papers and Briefs

APRA ICE Insight 2: Making the Most of the Media

APRA ICE Insight 1: Investing in Social Media Pays Big Dividends

APRA Working Paper 90: Agricultural Commercialisation Pathways and Gendered Livelihood Outcomes in Rural South-Western Ghana

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APRA Working Paper 89: Impact of Commercialisation Pathways on Income and Asset Accumulation: Evidence from Smallholder Farming in Zimbabwe

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APRA Working Paper 88: Agricultural Commercialisation, Gender Relations and Women’s Empowerment in Smallholder Farm Households: Evidence from Zimbabwe

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APRA Brief 36: Pathways to Inclusive Smallholder Agricultural Commercialisation: Which Way Now?

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APRA Brief 35: The Dilemma of Climate-resilient Agricultural Commercialisation in Tanzania and Zimbabwe

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APRA Brief 34: The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation: Insights from Crop Value Chain Studies in Sub-Saharan Africa

ALRE Working Paper 2: Publishing Evidence: APRA’s Contribution to Knowledge on the Pathways to Inclusive Agricultural Commercialisation in Africa

Journal Article: Irrigating Zimbabwe After Land Reform: The Potential of Farmer-Led Systems

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Journal Article: Young People and Land in Zimbabwe: Livelihood Challenges After Land Reform

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Journal Article: Tobacco Farming Following Land Reform in Zimbabwe: A New Dynamic of Social Differentiation and Accumulation

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APRA Brief 33: Is Rice and Sunflower Commercialisation in Tanzania Inclusive for Women and Youth?

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Journal Article: Is Agricultural Commercialisation Sufficient for Poverty Reduction? Lessons from Rice Commercialisation in Kilombero, Tanzania

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Patterns and Drivers of Agricultural Commercialisation: Evidence from Ghana, Nigeria and Malawi

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APRA Brief 32: Medium-Scale Farming as a Policy Tool for Agricultural Commercialisation and Small-Scale Farms Transformation in Nigeria

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Journal Article: ‘Demonstration Fields’, Anticipation, and Contestation: Agrarian Change and the Political Economy of Development Corridors in Eastern Africa

APRA Working Paper 87: The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation: Insights from Crop Value Chain Studies in Sub-Saharan Africa

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APRA Working Paper 86: Returns to Commercialisation: Gross Margins of Commercial Crops Grown by Smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa

APRA Working Paper 85: In the Shadow of Industrial Companies: Class and Spatial Dynamics of Artisanal Palm Oil Processing in Rural Ghana

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APRA Brief 31: Spillover Effects of Medium-Scale Farms on Smallholder Behaviour and Welfare: Evidence from Nigeria

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Journal Article: Changing Farm Size Distributions and Agricultural Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa

APRA Brief 30: Ghana’s Cocoa Farmers Need to Change Gear: What Policymakers Need to Know, and What They Might Do

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APRA Brief 29: Achieving Inclusive Oil Palm Commercialisation in Ghana

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Journal Article: The Politics of Land, Resources & Investment in Eastern Africa’s Pastoral Drylands

APRA Working Paper 84: The Struggle to Intensify Cocoa Production in Ghana: Making a Living from the Forest in Western North

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APRA Working Paper 83: Hired Labour Use, Productivity, and Commercialisation: The Case of Rice in Fogera Plain of Ethiopia

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APRA Working Paper 82: Interrogating the Effectiveness of Farmer Producer Organisations in Enhancing Smallholder Commercialisation – Frontline Experiences From Central Malawi

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APRA Working Paper 81: Use of Climate-Smart Agriculture Practices and Smallholder Farmer Market Participation in Central Malawi

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APRA Working Paper 80: Long-Term Change, Commercialisation of Cocoa Farming, and Agroecosystems and Forest Rehabilitation in Ghana

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APRA Working Paper 79: Cocoa Commercialisation in Nigeria: Issues and Prospects

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APRA Working Paper 78: How Does Land Size Mediate the Relationship between Specialisation and Commercialisation? Lessons from Rice Farming in the Fogera Plain of Ethiopia

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APRA Working Paper 77: Commercialisation Pathways and Climate Change: The Case of Smallholder Farmers in Semi-Arid Tanzania

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A Multi-Phase Assessment of the Effects of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Zambia

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A Multi-Phase Assessment of the Effects of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Tanzania

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Journal Article: Private and State-Led Contract Farming in Zimbabwe: Accumulation, Social Differentiation and Rural Politics

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A Multi-Phase Assessment of the Effects of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Nigeria

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A Multi-Phase Assessment of the Effects of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Ghana

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A Multi-Phase Assessment of the Effects of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Kenya

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APRA Working Paper 76: Long-Term Patterns of Change in the Commercialisation of Cocoa in Ghana: Forest Frontiers and Technological Transformation

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APRA Brief 28: COVID-19 and Social Differentiation in African Agriculture

A Multi-Phase Assessment of the Effects of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Malawi

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APRA Working Paper 75: Agricultural Commercialisation and Rural Livelihoods in Malawi: A Historical and Contemporary Agrarian Inquiry

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A Multi-Phase Assessment of the Effects of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Ethiopia: The Case of Fogera Plain

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A Multi-Phase Assessment of the Effects of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Zimbabwe

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APRA Working Paper 74: The Role of Small-Scale Processors in Supporting Agricultural Commercialisation Among Smallholder Rice Farmers in East Africa: Lessons from Ethiopia and Tanzania

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APRA Working Paper 73: Land and Labour Relations on Cocoa Farms in Sefwi, Ghana: Continuity and Change

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APRA Research Note 5: Agricultural Commercialisation in South-Western Ghana

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APRA Working Paper 72: Land Tenure and Oil Palm Commercialisation

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APRA Working Paper 71: The Drivers of Medium-Scale Farms and the Emerging Synergies and Contradictions Among Socially-Differentiated Farmers in Northern Ghana

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APRA Working Paper 70: The Rise of Medium-Scale Farms in the Northern Savannah of Ghana: Farmland Invasion or an Inclusive Commercialised Agricultural Revolution?

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APRA Working Paper 69: Politics, Power and Social Differentiation in African Agricultural Value Chains: The Effects of COVID-19

APRA Working Paper 68: Explaining the Weakness of Associational Life in Oil Palm Growing Communities in Southwestern Ghana

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APRA Working Paper 67: Sunflower Commercialisation in Singida Region: Pathways for Livelihood Improvement

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APRA Working Paper 66: Yield and Commercialisation Effects of SRI Interventions in Mngeta, Kilombero District, Tanzania

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APRA Working Paper 65: Livestock, Crop Commercialisation and Poverty Reduction Among Rural Households in the Singida Region, Tanzania

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APRA Working Paper 64: Commercial Tobacco Production and Climate Change Adaptation in Mazowe, Zimbabwe

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APRA Working Paper 63: Rice Commercialisation Effects in Mngeta, Kilombero District, Tanzania: Identifying the Underlying Factors

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APRA Brief 27: Commercialising Pastoralist Livestock Systems in East Africa

APRA Working Paper 62: Agricultural Investment Corridors in Africa: Does Smallholder and Women’s Participation Count?

APRA Working Paper 61: Rice Commercialisation, Agrarian Change and Livelihood Trajectories: Transformations on the Fogera Plain of Ethiopia

Journal Article: Agricultural Commercialisation and Changing Labour Regimes in Zimbabwe

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ALRE Working Paper 1: From Field Research to Policy Change – Lessons from FAC and APRA

Responses of Rice Farmers Engaged in Vegetable Production: Implications of the Collapse of Vegetable Prices in the Fogera Plain

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Journal Article: The politics of mechanisation in Zimbabwe: tractors, accumulation and agrarian change

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Journal Article: Tractors, States, Markets and Agrarian Change in Africa

Research to Policy Influencing – Lessons from APRA on Efficiency, Effectiveness and Sustainability

APRA Working Paper 60: The Political Economy of the Maize Value Chain in Nigeria

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Working Paper 59: The Influence of Sunflower Commercialisation and Diversity on Women’s Empowerment: The Case of Iramba and Mkalama Districts, Singida Region

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Journal Article: Insights into Smallholder Capacity for Agricultural Commercialisation: Evidence from Four African Contexts

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Journal Article: Medium-scale commercial agriculture in Zimbabwe: the experience of A2 resettlement farms

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Journal Article: A Revisit of Farm Size and Productivity: Empirical Evidence from a Wide Range of Farm Sizes in Nigeria

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Working Paper 58: Understanding Gender and Social Differentiation in the Context of Agricultural Commercialisation and Implications for Livelihoods in Rural Malawi

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APRA Research Note: The Covid-19 Pandemic and Household Rice Consumption Patterns in Ethiopia: The Case of Addis Ababa

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Working Paper 57: Agricultural commercialisation and the political economy of value chains: Tanzania rice case study

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Working Paper 56: The political economy of the groundnut value chain in Malawi: Its re-emergence amidst policy chaos, strategic neglect, and opportunism

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Working Paper 55: COVID-19 and the political economy of tobacco and maize commodity circuits: Makoronyera, the ‘connected’ and agrarian accumulation in Zimbabwe

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Working Paper 54: Political economy of the oil palm value chain in Ghana

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Working Paper 53: The Political Economy of the Cocoa Value Chain in Ghana

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Working Paper 52: Agricultural Commercialisation and the Political Economy of Cocoa and Rice Value Chains in Nigeria

Working Paper 51: The Political Economy of the Rice Value Chain in Ethiopia: Actors, Performance, and Discourses

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Working Paper 50: Determinants of Smallholder Farmers’ Livelihood Trajectories: Evidence from Rural Malawi

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Working Paper 49: The Political Economy of Sunflower In Tanzania: A Case of Singida Region

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Journal Article: Old Tractors, New Policies and Induced Technological Transformation: Agricultural Mechanisation, Class Formation and Market Liberalisation in Ghana

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Journal Article: Of Zinc Roofs and Mango Trees: Tractors, the State and Agrarian Dualism in Mozambique

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Working Paper 48: The Political Economy of Land Use and Land Cover Change in Mvurwi Area Zimbabwe, 1984–2018

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Journal Article: The Resurgence of Agricultural Mechanisation in Ethiopia: Rhetoric or Real Commitment?

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Rapid Assessment of the Impact of Covid-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa – Synthesis Report 2

Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Zambia – Round 1 Report

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Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Malawi – Round 2 Report

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Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Zimbabwe -Round 2 Report

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Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Tanzania – Round 2 Report

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Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Kenya – Round 2 Report

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Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Ghana – Round 2 Report

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Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Fogera Plain, Ethiopia – Round 2 Report

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Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Nigeria – Round 2 Report

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ALRE Stakeholder Survey Analysis

ALRE Stakeholder Survey Analysis: Key Findings

Working Paper 47: How Conflicts Affect Land Expansion by Smallholder Farmers: Evidence from Nigeria

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ALRE Research Note : The Diamond of Influence, a Model for Exploring Behaviour in Research to Policy Linkages

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Working Paper 46: Drivers of Market-Oriented Land Use Decisions Among Farm Households in Nigeria

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Journal Article: The Agrarian Question in Contemporary Zimbabwe. Africanus: Journal of Development Studies, Vol 49 No 1 (2019)

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Working Paper 45: Role of resilience factors in mitigating the negative effects of conflict on land expansion

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Working Paper 44: The Emerging Importance of Rice as a Strategic Crop in Ethiopia

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Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Zimbabwe – Round 1 Report

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Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Tanzania – Round 1 Report

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Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Malawi – Round 1 Report

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Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Kenya – Round 1 Report

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Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Ghana -Round 1 Report

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Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Fogera Plain, Ethiopia – Round 1 Report

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Working Paper 43: Smallholder farmers’ choice of oil palm commercialisation model and household welfare in south-western Ghana

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Working Paper 42: Women empowerment, agriculture commercialisation and gender relations: A value chain analysis, Mvurwi, Zimbabwe

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Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Nigeria – Round 1 Report

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Rapid Assessment of the Impact of Covid-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa – Synthesis Report 1

Working Paper 41: Expanding Land Area Under Commercial Tree Crop Plantation in Nigeria

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Journal Article: Young People and Land in Zimbabwe: Livelihood Challenges After Land Reform

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Working Paper 40: The groundnuts fairtrade arrangement and its spillover effects on agricultural commercialisation and household welfare outcomes: Empirical evidence from central Malawi

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Working Paper 39: Winners and Losers in Livestock Commercialisation in Northern Kenya

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Working Paper 38: Spillover Effects of Medium-Scale Farms on Smallholder Behaviour and Welfare: Evidence from Nigeria

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Working Paper 37: Effect of Choice of Tillage Technology on Commercialisation and Livelihood of Smallholder Farmers in Mngeta Division, Kilombero District, Tanzania

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APRA Brief 26: Inducing agribusiness investment in Malawi: Insights from investors

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Working Paper 36: Small is beautiful? Policy choices and outcomes for agrarian change for resettled farmers in Mvurwi district

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Working Paper 35: Agricultural Commercialisation in Northern Zimbabwe: Crises, Conjunctures and Contingencies, 1890-2020

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Working Paper 34: Does rice commercialisation empower women? Experience from Mngeta division in Kilombero District, Tanzania

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Journal Article: Hard work and hazard: Young people and agricultural commercialisation in Africa

Journal Article: Agricultural corridors as ‘demonstration fields’: infrastructure, fairs and associations along the Beira and Nacala corridors of Mozambique

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Journal Article: Land, livelihoods and belonging: negotiating change and anticipating LAPSSET in Kenya’s Lamu county

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Journal Article: Bureaucrats, investors and smallholders: contesting land rights and agro-commercialisation in the Southern agricultural growth corridor of Tanzania

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Journal Article: Demonstration fields’, anticipation, and contestation: agrarian change and the political economy of development corridors in Eastern Africa

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Journal Article: Land Reform and New Meaning of Rural Development in Zimbabwe

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Journal Article: Irrigating Zimbabwe After Land Reform: The Potential of Farmer-Led Systems

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Working Paper 33: Agribusiness Investment in Agricultural Commercialisation: Rethinking Policy Incentives in Africa

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Rapid Evidence Review: Policy interventions to mitigate negative effects on poverty, agriculture and food security from disease outbreaks and other crises

APRA Brief 25: Does rice commercialisation enhance or impair household food security among rice producing households in Mngeta Division, Kilombero District, Tanzania?

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APRA Brief 24: The white gold of Wereta: A city raised on rice

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Working Paper 32: Intra-Household Gender Differentials in Smallholder Agriculture Productivity in Food and Non-Food Crop Commercialisation Pathways: Evidence from Zimbabwe

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Working Paper 31: Long-Term Change and Agricultural Commercialisation in Ghanaian Cocoa

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Working Paper 30: Does Rice Commercialisation Impact on Livelihood? Experience from Mngeta in Kilombero District, Tanzania

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APRA Brief 23: Does rice commercialisation in Mngeta, Kilombero, Tanzania impact livelihoods?

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APRA Brief 22: Enhancing production of quality rice in Ethiopia: Dis/incentives for rice processors

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Working Paper 29: Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation in Nigeria

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Working Paper 28: Agricultural Commercialisation Pathways, Input Use, and Crop Productivity: Evidence from Smallholder Farmers in Zimbabwe

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Working Paper 27: Divergent Terms of Market Integration of Agro-Pastoralists: Marketisation and Distress Selling of Livestock in South Omo, Ethiopia

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Journal Article: Revisiting the Farm Size-Productivity Relationship Based on a Relatively Wide Range of Farm Sizes: Evidence from Kenya

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Journal Article: Are medium-scale farms driving agricultural transformation in sub-Saharan Africa?

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APRA Brief 21: Changing Farm Structure and Agricultural Commercialisation in Nigeria

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APRA Brief 20: Policy Incentives and Agribusiness Investment in Ethiopia: Benefit or Deadweight

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Research Note: Value Chain Participants in Smallholder Commercialisation in Mvurwi: Emerging Business Relations

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APRA Brief 19: Agribusiness Investment in Agricultural Commercialisation in Ghana: Rethinking Policy Incentives

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Working Paper 26: Changing farm structure and agricultural commercialisation in Nigeria

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Working Paper 25: Building Livelihoods: Young People and Agricultural Commercialisation in Africa: Zimbabwe Country Study

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Working Paper 24: Building Livelihoods: Young People and Agricultural Commercialisation: Tanzania Country Study

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Working Paper 23: Mechanised Agriculture and Medium-Scale Farmers in Northern Ghana: a Success of Market Liberalism or a Product of a Longer History?

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APRA Brief 18: The political economy of agricultural growth corridors in eastern Africa

APRA Brief 17: Tractors, Markets and the State: (Dis)continuities in Africa’s Agricultural Mechanisation

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APRA Brief 16: A Historical Analysis of Rice Commercialisation in Ethiopia_The Case of the Fogera Plain

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APRA Brief 15: Building Livelihoods: Youth and Agricultural Commercialisation in Ghana

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Working Paper 22: Tractors in Africa: Looking Behind the Technical Fix

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Working Paper 21: Tractors and Agrarian Transformation in Zimbabwe: Insights from Mvurwi

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Working Paper 20: Building Livelihoods: Young People and Agricultural Commercialisation in Africa: Ghana Country Study

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Working Paper 19: Zinc Roof of Mango Tree? Tractors, Modernisation and Agrarian Transformation in Mozambique

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APRA Brief 14: Participation, Voice and Governance in African Investment Corridors

APRA Brief 13: The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialistion in Malawi

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APRA Brief 12: The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation in Africa

Working Paper 18: A Historical Analysis of Rice Commercialisation in Ethiopia: the Case of the Fogera Plain

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Journal Article: Medium-scale commercial farms in Africa: the experience of the ‘native purchase areas’ in Zimbabwe

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APRA Brief 11: The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation in Ethiopia: Discourses, Actors and Structural Impediments

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APRA Brief 10: Women’s Empowerment and the Commercialisation of African Agriculture

APRA Brief 9: Partnerships, Platforms and Policies: Strengthening Farmer Capacity to Harness Technological Innovation for Agricultural Commercialisation

APRA Brief 8: The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation in Zimbabwe

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APRA Brief 7: Policy Processes and Political Economy: Ghana Country Review

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APRA Brief 6: Agricultural Commercialisation Pathways: Climate Change and Agriculture

Working Paper 17: The Political Economy of Agricultural Commercialisation in Malawi

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