May 3, 2013 / LDPI Working Papers
Full title: “I Would Rather Have My Land Back”: Subaltern Voices and Corporate/State Land Grab in the Save Valley LDPI Working Paper 20E. Kushinga Makombe
May 3, 2013 / LDPI Working Papers
Full title: Land Grabbing along Livestock Migration Routes in Gadarif State, Sudan: Impacts on Pastoralism and the Environment LDPI Working Paper 19Hussein M. Sulieman
May 3, 2013 / LDPI Working Papers
Full title: Upheaval in Chinese Villages: A Case Study of Rural Land Expropriation for “Large-Scale” Commercial Farming in Rural China LDPI Working Paper 18Kan Liu
May 3, 2013 / LDPI Working Papers
Full title: Consolidating land, consolidating control: state-facilitated ‘agricultural investment’ through the ‘Green Revolution’ in Rwanda LDPI Working Paper 16Chris Huggins
May 3, 2013 / LDPI Working Papers
Full title: The social and environmental implications of urbanization strategies and domestic land grabbing in China: The case of Chongming Island LDPI Working Paper 14Giuseppina Siciliano
May 3, 2013 / LDPI Working Papers
Full title: Postponed Local Concerns? Implications of Land Acquisitions for Indigenous Local Communities in Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State, Ethiopia LDPI Working Paper 13by Tsegaye Moreda
May 3, 2013 / FAC blog
Much of the formalisation of farming systems research took place within the CGIAR centres in Nigeria (IITA), Mexico (CIMMYT) and The Philippines (IRRI). USAID and other funders eventually piled in, spawning farming systems research units, projects and training programmes throughout
May 3, 2013 / Science, Technology and Innovation
In a new blog post, Jim Sumberg suggests how the discipline of Farming Systems Research (FSR), pioneered in the 1970s, could be revived with new thinking. With agriculture once again high on the development agenda, and with new ambitions, actors
May 3, 2013 / Research Update
March 2013 Debates continue among policymakers and academics about the relative merits of large and small farms. Recent transnational investments in commercial agriculture have prompted the resurgence of plantations and other forms of large-scale commercial agriculture. This research update summarises
May 1, 2013 / FAC blog
Two main points stood out for us across the different panels. First is the need to pin down what is meant by ‘transparency’. For some, it meant disclosure of information; for others, disclosure plus active participation; in yet other discussions,
April 30, 2013 / FAC blog
The following 5 days were jam-packed with activities that stretched our combined mental capacities to the limit. Prof Mary Scholes was the convenor of the conference and, together with a truly stellar group of senior researchers, she set us a
April 26, 2013 / Growth and Social Protection
An article in Development Policy Review by James Sumberg and Gountiéni Damien Lankoandé examines the ‘heifer-in-trust’ or ‘livestock-in-kind credit’ model through a social-protection lens. Specifically it seeks to engage with debates about the use of asset-based strategies to support graduation
April 25, 2013 / Working Papers
FAC Working Paper 55 Rebecca Smalley There is uncertainty and no small controversy surrounding the potential impacts of commercial agricultural developments that are being proposed for sub-Saharan Africa by domestic governments and foreign investors. Much of the debate concerns how
April 22, 2013 / FAC blog
Chinese Firms Criticised in Zimbabwean Tobacco Out-Grower Schemes Chinese firms are said to be rapidly dominating the Zimbabwean tobacco markets and placing increasingly high demands and costs on locally engaged farmers in out-grower schemes. Chinese tobacco firm Tian Ze is
April 22, 2013 / Land
A special issue of the journal Development and Change, entitled Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land, is the latest of a series exploring global land, water and green grabs. This has been
April 22, 2013 / Journal special issues
Development and ChangeMarch 2013Volume 44, Issue 2Pages 189–471Issue edited by: Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones, Ben White Published by Wiley-Blackwell (Oxford) on behalf of the Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Development and Change appears six
April 17, 2013 / Political Economy of Agricultural Policy in Africa
The six plenary sessions at the Political Economy of Agricultural Policy in Africa conference were filmed in their entirety. Watch the videos below to see debates on the BRICS, African co-operation, civil society and the policy process. The conference took
April 17, 2013 / Agricultural Investment, Gender and Land in Africa
The six plenary sessions at the Political Economy of Agricultural Policy in Africa conference were filmed in their entirety. Watch the videos below to see debates on the BRICS, African co-operation, civil society and the policy process. The conference took
April 13, 2013 / Journal articles
by James Sumberg and Gountiéni Damien LankoandéDevelopment Policy Review, Volume 31, Issue 3, pages 255–271, April 2013 This article examines the ‘heifer-in-trust’ or ‘livestock-in-kind credit’ model through a social-protection lens. Specifically it seeks to engage with debates about the use
April 12, 2013 / FAC blog
Joint Annual Meeting of the African Union The 6th Joint Annual Meeting of the African Union’s ministers of finance, planning and economic development called for a focus on industrialisation and discussed means to bring this about. Agriculture was discussed briefly
April 7, 2013 / Political Economy of Agricultural Policy in Africa
These short video interviews were filmed with participants at the Political Economy of Agricultural Policy in Africa conference. Participants interviewed include Arilson Favareto, Buba Khan, John Barrett, Lidia Cabral, Patience Mutopo, Nancy Kachingwe, Tamani Nkhono-Mvula and Ruth Oniang'o. The conference
April 7, 2013 / Agricultural Investment, Gender and Land in Africa
These short video interviews were filmed with participants at the Political Economy of Agricultural Policy in Africa conference. Participants interviewed include Arilson Favareto, Buba Khan, John Barrett, Lidia Cabral, Patience Mutopo, Nancy Kachingwe, Tamani Nkhono-Mvula and Ruth Oniang'o. The conference
April 4, 2013 / FAC blog
So, the argument is as follows: Evidence-based policy discourse that focuses on ‘what works, where and for whom’ presupposes the existence of evidence about ‘what is, what has been and what is likely to be’. In some key policy domains
April 3, 2013 / Political Economic Aspects of Water Policies
The Political Ecology of Water Management in the Great Ruaha Catchment: Analysis of Winners, Losers and Villains Faustin P. MagangaUniversity of Dar es Salaam
April 3, 2013 / Land
The tenth "Policies against Hunger" conference in June 2013 will centre around the question of how to apply the standards and principles described in the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the
March 27, 2013 / The Political Economy of CAADP Engagement
The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme and agricultural policies in Tanzania: A Tale of Three PoliciesBrian CookseyFuture Agricultures Consortium
March 27, 2013 / The Political Economy of CAADP Engagement
Beyond the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP)? The Political Economy of Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Processes in Malawi Blessings ChinsingaFuture Agricultures ConsortiumChancellor College, University of Malawi
March 27, 2013 / Underpinnings of Agricultural Production in Africa
Background paper: Turning to natural resource extraction: A new opening for agriculture or continued neglect in Mozambique? by Lars Buur with José Macuane and Bernhard Weimer
March 27, 2013 / Brazilian and Chinese Engagement
Negotiating new relationships: how the Ethiopian state is involving China and Brazil in agriculture and rural development (slides) Dawit AlemuEthiopian Agricultural Research Institute
March 27, 2013 / Other Resources (Political Economy 2013)
Combining political and economic models: An evolutionary Computable General Political Economy Equilibrium Model (CGPE) Christian Henning and Eva KrampeDepartment of Agricultural Economics, University of Kiel, Germany
March 27, 2013 / Other Resources (Political Economy 2013)
Patience B. RwamigisaMinistry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, UgandaAFRISA, Makerere University, Uganda
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