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Two classic IDS Bulletins featuring research by members and friends of FAC.

 

Livelihoods in Crisis?
VOL 34 NO 3 JULY 2003pdf

New perspectives on governance and rural development in Southern Africa
Editors: William Wolmer and Ian Scoones

Contexts and Debates
1. Introduction: Livelihoods in Crisis: Challenges for Rural Development in Southern Africa
Ian Scoones and William Wolmer

2. Livelihood Dynamics: Rural Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe
SLSA Team

Part II: Resources and Policies
3. Wild Resources Management in Southern
Africa: Participation, Partnerships, Ecoregions and Redistribution

William Wolmer and Caroline Ashley

4. Politics and Water Policy: A Southern Africa
Example

Alan Nicol and Sobona Mtisi

5. Land and Livelihoods: The Politics of Land
Reform in Southern Africa

Edward Lahiff

Part III: Livelihoods and Governance
6. The Rural Poor, the Private Sector and Markets:
Changing Interactions in Southern Africa

SLSA Team

7. Decentralisations in Practice in Southern Africa
SLSA Team

8. Rights Talk and Rights Practice: Challenges for
Southern Africa

SLSA Team

9. Endpiece: The Politics of Livelihood Opportunity
Ian Scoones and William Wolmer

 

 

New Directions for African Agriculture

VOL 36 NO 2 JUNE 2005pdf

By Ian Scoones, Stephen Devereux and Lawrence Haddad

Introduction: New Directions for African Agriculture
Ian Scoones, Stephen Devereux and Lawrence Haddad

Investing in Africa: The Political Economy of
Agricultural Growth

Adebayo Olukoshi

Success Stories from African Agriculture: What are the Key Elements of Success?
Steve Wiggins

Is There a Future for Family Farming in West Africa?
Camilla Toulmin and Bara Guèye

“Seven Fat Years and Seven Lean Years”? Climate Change and Agriculture in Africa
Coleen Vogel

HIV/AIDS and Agriculture in Southern Africa: What
Difference Does It Make?

Michael Drinkwater

A “Blue Revolution” for African Agriculture?
Synne Movik, Lyla Mehta, Sobona Mtisi and Alan Nicol

Key Challenges for Technology Development and Agricultural Research in Africa
Monty Jones

Transport, Poverty and Agrarian Change in Africa:
Models, Mechanisms and New Ways Forward

Aaron deGrassi

Agricultural Markets in West Africa: Frontiers, Agribusiness and Social Differentiation
Kojo Sebastian Amanor

The WTO: A Spectre, But at Which Feast?
Christopher Stevens

Corporate Control Over Seeds: Limiting Access and
Farmers’ Rights

Patrick Mulvany

Gender, Work and Vulnerability in African Horticulture
Stephanie Barrientos, Andrienetta Kritzinger, Maggie Opondo
and Sally Smith

Beyond Liberalisation: “Developmental Coordination” Policies for African Smallholder Agriculture
Andrew Dorward, Jonathan Kydd and Colin Poulton

The Centrality of the Social in African Farming
James Fairhead and Melissa Leach

Do Poverty Reduction Strategies and Agricultural
Policies Engage in West and Central Africa?

Abdou Salam Fall and Thiendou Niang

Communities, Commodities and Crazy Ideas: Changing Livestock Policies in Africa
Andy Catley, Tim Leyland, Berhanu Admassu, Gavin Thomson, Mtula Otieno and Yacob Aklilu

Neo-patrimonialism and Policy Processes: Lessons
from the Southern African
Food Crisis

Elizabeth Cromwell and Allan Chintedza

Governing Technology Development: Challenges for Agricultural Research in Africa
Ian Scoones

Livelihoods Research Findings and Agriculture-led Growth
Godfrey Bahiigwa, Ntengua Mdoe and Frank Ellis

Too Much Inequality or Too Little? Inequality and
Stagnation in Ethiopian Agriculture

Stephen Devereux, Amdissa Teshome and
Rachel Sabates-Wheeler

Smallholder Agriculture and Land Reform in South Africa
Edward Lahiff and Ben Cousins

Agricultural Development in Zambia’s Northern Province: Perspectives from the Field Level
Howard White, Jennifer Leavy and Venkatesh Seshamani

Peace Through Agrarian Justice
Paul Richards and Khadija Bah

 

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