
Two classic IDS Bulletins featuring research by members and friends of FAC.
Livelihoods in Crisis?
VOL 34 NO 3 JULY 2003![]()
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 2005![]()
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