Thematic Focus:
In parallel to country-level work will be cross-cutting thematic working groups convened by consortium members, but involving African and other participants from outside the consortium. The aims of the thematic working groups will be to:
- draw out wider lessons being generated by the country/regional cluster work
- highlight where ground experience complements or challenges 'conventional wisdoms' about agriculture, poverty and growth
- provide a source of materials for briefing and policy advice beyond the country level
The following four themes will cross-cut the country work and inform
the work of the consortium in the first instance:
Further Reading
Livelihoods
Connect - Hot Topic
Agriculture and Renewable Natural Resources
'Reaching
the Poor: A Call to Action: Investment in Smallholder Agriculture in Sub-Saharan
Africa', Spring 2004, prepared jointly by staff at FARM-Africa, Harvest
Help and the
Centre for Development and Poverty Reduction, Department of Agricultural
Sciences, Imperial College, London.
'Agriculture
and Poverty Reduction: Unlocking the Potential', a DFID Policy paper,
December 2003.
'Realizing
the Promise and Potential of African Agriculture', InterAcademy Council,
2004
'Policy Research
and African Agriculture: Time for a Dose of Reality?', Steven Were
Omamo and John Farrington, ODI Natural Resource Perspectives, January
2004
