Policy Processes - Useful Links
General
Look, listen
and learn: An action research project in southern Africa
Promoting the use of CSOs’ evidence in policies for food security
Network of West African Peasants
and Producers Organizations
WRI Institutions and Governance
Program
African Association of Political Science
African
Journal of Political Science
African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (AfJARE). This open-access journal aims to publish original research about how African agriculture interacts with local and global economic systems and policy regimes in its impacts upon people.
Further reading
Politics of Policy
African
Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999, Nicolas
Van de Walle, 2001, Cambridge University Press
'The
Africa Commission Report: What About the Politics?', David Booth,
2005, Development Policy Review, 23(4): 493-498
'Will
a Marshall Plan for Africa make Poverty History?', Matthew Lockwood,
2005, Journal of International Development, 17(6): 775-789
'And
if There was no State?: Critical Reflections on Bates, Polanyi and Evans
on the Role of the State in Promoting Development ', Rocha Menocal,
2004, Third World Quarterly, 25(4): 765-777
Political
Topographies of the African State, Catherine Boone, 2003, Cambridge
University Press
Policy
and Politics for Smallholder Agriculture, Regina Birner and Danielle
Resnick (IFPRI)
IFPRI
research on Governance Structures and Policy Processes in Food and Agriculture
IADB Economic and Social Progress 2006 Report in Latin America on “The
Politics of Policies”. See overview
chapter and presentations.
