March 10, 2010 / Researchers
Tomas Tanner is a social scientist specialising in the policy and practice of adaptation to climate change, particularly in linking approaches to development, disasters and climate change. He is currently a Research Fellow on the Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction Team
March 10, 2010 / Researchers
Jeremy Lind is a development geographer with over 10 years research and advisory experience on livelihoods in conflict areas and the difficulties of aid delivery in such contexts, including one year researching the impacts of armed violence on pastoralist livelihoods
March 9, 2010 / FAC blog
In February 2009, FAC researchers spoke out about the causes, the results, and the remedies of the global food crisis. {japopup type=”youtube” content=”http://www.youtube.com/v/s7TsyRH7F8A&hl=en&fs=1″ width=”640″ height=”380″ title=”Amdissa Teshome”}Amdissa Teshome – Country Coordinator for Ethiopia {/japopup} {japopup type=”youtube” content=”http://www.youtube.com/v/AnaAyrEBZ00&hl=en&fs=1″ width=”640″ height=”380″ title=”Andrew
March 4, 2010 / Conferences
Opportunities, Challenges and Future Prospects: presentations and panel discussion 10 February 2009 PanAfric Hotel, Nairobi. As Kenya’s food crisis is declared a national disaster and 10 million people face hunger, scientists from the Future Agricultures Consortium have set out new
March 4, 2010 / Workshops
The Future Agricultures consortium convened six meetings to discuss key issues in agricultural policy for pro-poor growth. The meetings took place at ODI's offices in London and began in October 2006 with 'Effective Rural Institutions: The Missing Link in Market-based
March 3, 2010 / E-debates
How can Africa’s farmers, scientists, development practitioners, private entrepreneurs and publicofficials, with the support of the international community, spark a Green Revolution in Africa,one that responds to the region’s unique social, political and ecological conditions? That was thechallenge presented to
March 3, 2010 / News
The importance of politics and policy processes in making policies and plans real on the ground and a framework for thinking about the political economy of agricultural policy. Insights drawn from our comparative studies in FAC’s focal countries fed into
March 3, 2010 / Organisations
http://www.eeaecon.org {jathumbnail off}Ethiopian Economic Association (EEA) is a non-profit making, non-political and non-religious professional Association which is registered with the Ministry of Justice in 1991 to accomplish the following objectives: to contribute to the economic policy formulation capability and broadly
March 3, 2010 / Organisations
http://www.azconsult.com.et/ {jathumbnail off}A-Z Capacity Building Consult (A-Z Consult) is a consultancy service registered in Addis Ababa and has been operating since 1997-98.The Chief Consultant, Dr Amdissa Teshome, has a Certificate of Professional Competence from the Ethiopian management Institute (EMI).
March 3, 2010 / Organisations
http://cabeafrica.net {jathumbnail off}CABE is an international knowledge sharing organization under the Non-Governmental co-ordination Act of Kenya. CABE works to enhance and improve the welfare of smallholder and youth entrepreneurs in Africa by mobilising support, linking them to markets and non-market
March 3, 2010 / Organisations
http://www.dadimos.com/ Dadimos Development Consultants was officially established and registered by Ministry of Industry and Trade as per the Book II Title of the Ethiopian Commercial Code of the 1960. The company has extensive experience in the field of development studies.
March 3, 2010 / Organisations
www.ids.ac.uk {jathumbnail off}The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is a leading global organisation for research, teaching and communications on international development. IDS was founded in 1966 and enjoys an international reputation based on the quality of its work and its
March 1, 2010 / Working Papers
Rachel Sabates-Wheeler and Stephen Devereux January 2010 An ongoing and highly politicised debate concerns the relative efficacy of cash transfers versus food aid. This paper aims to shed light on this debate, drawing on new empirical evidence from Ethiopia’s Productive
March 1, 2010 / Research Papers
Booker W. Owuor, Job O. Ogada, Colin Poulton, and Gem Argwings-Kodhek June 2010 Agriculture is the backbone of Kenya’s economy. Well managed, agriculture can be the single source that will spearhead the economy and alleviate poverty among the over 80
February 28, 2010 / Miscelleanous
Agricultural development is a sine qua non for imprurroving livelihoods in Africa’s predominantlyal economies, yet agricultural productivity has hardly improved and African food production per capita continues to decline. This is not because of ahlack of planning efforts, but rather
February 26, 2010 / Researchers
Dawi Alemu is Coordinator of Agricultural Economics, Research Extension and Farmers linkage at the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR). He has been associated with EIAR since 1999 as a Senior Researcher and Coordinator. His research focuses on agricultural marketing
February 26, 2010 / Researchers
Mirriam Muhome-Matita specialises in Agriculture and Environmental Economics. She holds a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Malawi. She has a keen research interest in poverty dynamics, food security, agriculture systems' performance and growth.
February 26, 2010 / Researchers
John Thompson has worked on power, policy and sustainability issues in food and agriculture, water resource management and rural development for nearly 25 years, in both developing and industrialised countries.
February 26, 2010 / Researchers
Ian Scoones is co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre at the University of Sussex and joint convenor of the IDS-hosted Future Agricultures Consortium. He is an agricultural ecologist by original training whose interdisciplinary research links the natural and social sciences
February 26, 2010 / Researchers
Kojo Amanor is an Associate Professor at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. He joined the Institute in 1993. From 1988 to 1990 he was Research Associate at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London – Pastoral Development
February 26, 2010 / Researchers
Rachel Sabates-Wheeler is a Development Economist with extensive experience in rural development, institutional analysis and social protection, including 2.5 years leading research on Land Policy in Albania. Since 2001, she has been a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development
February 26, 2010 / Researchers
Stephen Devereux is a development economist with 20 years experience working predominantly on food security, rural livelihoods, social protection and poverty reduction issues. His research experience has mainly been in Africa, especially Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi and Namibia.
February 26, 2010 / Researchers
Eva Ludi is a geographer with a diverse portfolio. Currently she is a member of the Protected Livelihoods and Agricultural Growth (PLAG) Programme and the Water Policy Programme (WPP) at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI).
February 26, 2010 / Researchers
Jennifer Leavy is an Agricultural Economist working as a Research Officer at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex. She has research and consultancy experience in sub-Saharan Africa, South and South-East Asia.
February 26, 2010 / Researchers
Sally Smith is a Research Officer at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex working on international trade, corporate social responsibility, poverty and rural development.
February 26, 2010 / Researchers
Steve Wiggins is a Research Fellow and Programme Leader at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). He has been studying and working on agricultural and rural development in Africa and Latin America since 1972.
February 26, 2010 / Researchers
Colin Poulton is a Research Fellow at at the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy (CeDEP) at SOAS as well as a members of the SOAS Food Studies Centre. Colin has worked in Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
February 26, 2010 / Researchers
Samuel Gebreselassie is a Researcher in Agricultural and Rural Development and Environmental Economics at the Ethiopian Economic Policy Research Institute (EEPRI). He holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Bonn.
February 26, 2010 / Researchers
Amdissa Teshome currently runs the consultancy firm, A-Z Consult in Addis Ababa. He holds a MSc in Agricultural Economics from Wye College, a PhD from University of London as well as being a graduate in Economics from Addis Ababa University.
February 26, 2010 / Researchers
Hannington Odame is a founding member and its interim Executive Director of the Centre for African Bio-Entrepreneurship (CABE). He has a keen interest in agricultural innovation systems as well as biotechnology, food security and smallholder innovations.
February 26, 2010 / Researchers
Lydia Ndirangu is a Policy Analyst in the Productive Sector Division at the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), were she focuses on agriculture and rural development policies with a special focus on food security.
February 26, 2010 / Researchers
Andrew Dorward is the Economic Director at the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy (CeDEP) at SOAS as well as a members of the SOAS Food Studies Centre where he focuses on problems associated with risk, market access, institutions, and
February 26, 2010 / Researchers
Jim Sumberg is an agriculturalist by training and has over 25 years experience working on small-scale farming systems and agricultural research policy in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. A key research interest has been the dynamics of change within agricultural
February 26, 2010 / Researchers
Michael Loevinsohn is an ecologist and epidemiologist. He has worked for many years at the interface between environment, rural society and health, seeking to throw light on the dynamics of systems undergoing rapid change. Often this has involved making use
February 26, 2010 / Researchers
Lidia Carbral is an economist and social scientist. She currently works as a Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Lidia has experience in public policy formulation and implementation (PRSP, MTEF & State Budgets), budget system analysis (Public Expenditure
February 25, 2010 / E-debates
Everyone is agreed that one of the central components of achieving an „African Green Revolution? is to tackle the widespread soil fertility constraints in African agriculture. To this end, AGRA – the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa –
February 25, 2010 / E-debates
We have had some fantastic – and varied – contributions to the debate. Many thanks to everyone who contributed. This note aims to draw out some themes and emerging conclusions. It is not comprehensive, and I urge everyone to read
February 25, 2010 / E-debates
To produce the food necessary to reduce high world food prices and meet the future demands of a growing and more affluent population, large-scale commercial farming needs to be encouraged. Any romantic illusions about small-scale farmers should be set aside.
February 25, 2010 / Conference Publications
How can Africa’s farmers, scientists, development practitioners, private entrepreneurs and public officials, with the support of the international community, spark a Green Revolution in Africa,one that responds to the region’s unique social, political and ecological conditions? That was thechallenge presented
February 24, 2010 / Miscelleanous
If investments are good for growth, then a questionwhich has always exercised the minds of economistsand policy-makers historically, is just how togenerate, attract, secure and sustain them. This isnot a question to which there are easy answers,although there is no
February 16, 2010 / FAC blog
DFID’s renewal of its partnership for FAC’s work means the Consortium can now: Deepen its agriculture research and policy engagement activities in East and Southern Africa. Reinforce its core research themes of: – Policy Processes – Agricultural Commercialisation – Growth
February 5, 2010 / Climate Change
DFID/IDRC-funded Research to Policy for Adaptation (RPA) project provides accessible tools, methods and conceptual approaches for researchers to analyse the policy processes for climate change adaptation in a specific country. RPA is helping to build researchers’ capacity to understand and influence policy
February 5, 2010 / Young People & Agrifood
The economic, social and cultural contexts of agriculture are changing fast, as evidenced by significant shifts in the patterns of food production and consumption. An increasingly globalised world also means that there is now greater access to fast-evolving communication and
February 5, 2010 / Young People & Agrifood
The economic, social and cultural contexts of agriculture are changing fast, as evidenced by significant shifts in the patterns of food production and consumption. An increasingly globalised world also means that there is now greater access to fast-evolving communication and
February 5, 2010 / Pastoral Innovation Systems
The Pastoral Communication Initiative, a long-term partner of FAC, will help facilitate this work and manage funds. We hope someone from PCI will attend the workshop too. As you know the first step in this work took place at a
February 2, 2010 / African Green Revolution - Theme 2
The problem has been, for decades, that the world's top scientists have not concentrated on the most important problems of small-scale farmers. If someone is dying of thirst, and you give him fried chicken, you are not going to save
February 2, 2010 / African Green Revolution - Theme 2
To make science and technology work for small farmers in sub-Saharan Africa I think it is imperative that account be taken of within-field soil variability. This is especially true in semi-arid areas, but also in other parts of Africa. The
February 2, 2010 / African Green Revolution - Theme 2
Suitable technologies should be developed in a participatory approach with farmers playing a major role. Small scale farmers need technologies that are site specific and tested at the village/community level since there are many farming systems dictated by varying agro
February 2, 2010 / African Green Revolution - Theme 2
Sustainability: many factors contribute to sustainability of agriculture: the most important of all is the capacity of soil-inhabiting organisms to thrive, because their activities are vital (literally) to formation and recurrent re-formation of soil structure, maintaining soil porosity. Its condition
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