Future Agricultures Publications and Presentations

Briefing Papers

Rising Food Prices: A global crisis

Rethinking Agricultural Input Subsidies in Poor Rural Economies

The Malawi Fertiliser Subsidy Programme: politics and pragmatism

Smallholder Coffee Commercialisation in Malawi

Malawi’s Agriculture Ministry: Fit for Purpose?

The Social Protection Policy in Malawi: Processes, Politics and Challenges

Using Social Protection to Reduce Vulnerability and Promote Economic Growth in Kenya

The Politics of Policy Reforms in Kenya’s Dairy Sector

Agricultural Commercialisations – A Level Playing Field for Smallholders?

Politics and the Future of Ministries of Agriculture:
Rethinking Roles and Transforming Agendas (WDR briefing)

The Limits of Success: The Case of the Dairy Sector in Kenya
(WDR briefing)

Promoting Agriculture for Social Protection or Social Protection for Agriculture? part 1: Concepts and Frameworks part 2: Policy Approaches & Emerging Questions

Narratives of Agricultural Policy in Africa: What Role for Ministries of Agriculture?

Donor Policy Narratives: What Role for Agriculture?

Pathways for Ethiopian Agriculture: Options and Scenarios

Agriculture, Growth and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia: Policy Processes Around the New PRSP (PASDEP)

Food Aid and Small-holder Agriculture in Ethiopia

Land, Land Policy and Smallholder Agriculture in Ethiopia

Intensification of Ethiopian Smallholder Agriculture

Agricultural Policy in Kenya. part 1: Policy Issues and the Strategy for Revitalising Agriculture part 2: Policy Processes, Structures and Actors

Future Scenarios for Agriculture in Malawi. part 1: Concepts
part 2: Policy

Research Papers and Reports

Evaluation of Malawi Input Subsidy Programme 2006/07
by Andrew Dorward and Ephraim Chirwa

CAADP Review & Partnership Platform Meeting (March 17-20 2008) - report from Amdissa Teshome

The Politics of Decentralisation in Southern Africa

Promoting Agriculture for Social Protection or Social Protection
for Agriculture: Strategic Policy and Research Issues
Discussion Paper

Narratives of Agricultural Policy in Africa: What Role for Ministries of Agriculture?

Future Agricultures Stakeholder Workshop (Ethiopia)

Agriculture, Growth and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia: Policy Processes Around the New PRSP (PASDEP)

Food Aid and Small-holder Agriculture in Ethiopia:
Options and Scenarios

Land, Land Policy and Smallholder Agriculture in Ethiopia:
Options and Scenarios

Intensification of Smallholder Agriculture in Ethiopia:
Options and Scenarios

Agricultural Policy in Kenya

Agricultural Development Issues in Kenya

Future Scenarios for Agriculture in Malawi: Challenges and Dilemmas

Stakeholder Consultation Workshops (Malawi)


Working / Discussion Papers

Commercialisation of Smallholder Agriculture in Selected Tef-growing Areas of Ethiopia

Agricultural Commercialisation in Coffee Growing Areas of Ethiopia

Synthesis Report for Theme III: Growth and Social Protection. June 2005–September 2007

Resurrecting the Vestiges of a Developmental State in Malawi? Reflections and Lessons from the 2005/2006 Fertilizer Subsidy Programme

Commercialisations in Agriculture

The Revitalisation of Kenya Cooperative Creameries: The Politics of Policy Reforms in the Dairy Sector in Kenya

Reforming the Smallholder Coffee Sector in Malawi : A Case Study of Smallholder Commercialisation

The Social Protection Policy in Malawi: Processes, Politics and Challenges

Reclaiming Policy Space: Lessons from Malawi's 2005/2006 Fertilizer Subsidy Programme

Using Social Protection Policies to Reduce Vulnerability and Promote Economic Growth in Kenya

Rethinking Agricultural Input Subsidies in Poor Rural Economies

Reforming agricultural policy: lessons from four countries

Presentations

FAC - An Overview of Issues and Activities

Summary of Commercialisations Workshop: Consultation with Future Agricultures Malawi Team. Zomba , Malawi , 9th August 2007

Summary of Commercialisations Workshop: Consultation with Future Agricultures Commercialisation in Ethiopia (FACE) Team. Addis Ababa Feb 9 th -10 th 2007

Policymaking in a Federal Context (Ethiopia)

Policy and Process in Kenya

The Fall and Rise of Smallholder Agriculture? (Malawi)

Commercialisations in Smallholder Agriculture: A General Framework

Commercialisation in Ethiopia: Which pathways?

Commercialisation of Smallholder Agriculture in Coffee and Tef Growing Areas of Ethiopia

Rethinking Agricultural Input Subsidies: growth and social protection impacts & interactions (Malawi)

Andrew Dorward. Sequencing of Investments for Agricultural Growth, Poverty Reduction and Food Security. Presentation to FAO Investment Centre Seminar, Rome, October 2006

Andrew Dorward. Sequencing of Investments for Agricultural Growth, Poverty Reduction and Food Security. Presentation to ReSAAKS Workshop, Joannesburg , October 2006

Andrew Dorward. Sequencing of Investments for Agricultural Growth, Poverty Reduction and Food Security. Presentation to SAAKS Workshop, Washington, June 2006

Other relevant, recent publications by FAC researchers

‘Debating Social Protection’, IDS Bulletin vol. 38, no. 3, (2007), special issue edited by Stephen Devereux and Rachel Sabates-Wheeler.

‘Vulnerability and Social Protection in Malawi’, IDS Discussion Paper 387 (2007), by Stephen Devereux, Bob Baulch, Ian McAuslan, Alexander Phiri and Rachel Sabates-Wheeler.

Funding agriculture: Not ‘how much?’ but ‘what for?’, ODI Opinion 86 (2007), October, by Lidia Cabral.

‘Bottom-up Policy Process: An Agenda for Future Agricultures in Ethiopia’ The Ethiopian Herald (English), Saturday 23 June 2007, by Amdissa Teshome.