June 29, 2011 / Young People, Farming & Food Conference
Deadline 15 September 2011 The organizers invite papers that offer rigorous analysis from various critical perspectives around the topics and questions listed below. We also encourage comparative studies and welcome proposals for thematic panels. Co-organized and hosted by the Future
June 29, 2011 / Young People, Farming & Food Conference
Deadline 15 September 2011 The organizers intend to have a panel of 4-6 presentations, selected on a competitive basis, from current or recently completed undergraduate and/or postgraduate students from Ghana. Conference costs for the selected presenters will be covered. Co-organized
June 29, 2011 / Political Economy of Agricultural Policy in Africa
Deadline 15 September 2011 The organizers invite papers that offer rigorous analysis from various critical perspectives around the topics and questions listed below. We also encourage comparative studies and welcome proposals for thematic panels. Co-organized and hosted by the Future
June 29, 2011 / Political Economy of Agricultural Policy in Africa
Deadline 15 September 2011 The organizers intend to have a panel of 4-6 presentations, selected on a competitive basis, from current or recently completed undergraduate and/or postgraduate students from Ghana. Conference costs for the selected presenters will be covered. Co-organized
June 29, 2011 / Agricultural Investment, Gender and Land in Africa
Deadline 15 September 2011 The organizers invite papers that offer rigorous analysis from various critical perspectives around the topics and questions listed below. We also encourage comparative studies and welcome proposals for thematic panels. Co-organized and hosted by the Future
June 29, 2011 / Agricultural Investment, Gender and Land in Africa
Deadline 15 September 2011 The organizers intend to have a panel of 4-6 presentations, selected on a competitive basis, from current or recently completed undergraduate and/or postgraduate students from Ghana. Conference costs for the selected presenters will be covered. Co-organized
June 29, 2011 / News
By Colin Poulton Presentation for the Africa College International “Food Security, Health and Impact” Knowledge Brokering Conference Leeds, UK 22-24 June 2011
June 29, 2011 / Research Papers
Claire Delpeuch and Colin Poulton June 2011 Research Paper 21 Recent years have witnessed a renewed recognition both of the importance of agricultural development to growth and poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa and of the important role that the state
June 29, 2011 / Working Papers
Lídia Cabral, Overseas Development Institute March 2011 FAC Working Paper 20 This paper reviews the literature on decentralisation in Africa, with a focus on impact on service delivery and poverty reduction. It notes decentralisation is not necessarily good or bad,
June 29, 2011 / FAC blog
Graziano da Silva, 61, the former Brazilian Minister of Food Security, will replace Jacques Diouf, who has served as the head of the biggest UN agency for 18 years, in January 2012. Graziano received 92 votes against 88 for Spain’s
June 28, 2011 / FAC blog
The 24-page communiqué, called the ‘Action Plan on Food Price Volatility and Agriculture’, was published following the first ever meeting of the G20 agriculture ministers, held in Paris on 22-23 June 2011, after France made global food security and commodities
June 28, 2011 / News
Replacing Pastoralism with Irrigated Agriculture in the Awash Valley, North-Eastern Ethiopia: Counting the Costs by Roy Behnke and Carol Kerven The development of hydropower and the availability of irrigated land per capita is lower in sub-Saharan Africa than in any
June 27, 2011 / Land
The convergence of global crises in food, energy, finance and the environment has driven a dramatic revaluation of land ownership as powerful transnational and national economic actors tap into lands outside their own borders to provide food and energy security
June 26, 2011 / Policy Processes
22 - 24 June 2011, Leeds, UK, by Colin Poulton Africa College is a research partnership between University of Leeds (Faculties of Biological Sciences, Environment, Medicine and Health), IITA and ICIPE that aims “to improve the lives of millions of
June 23, 2011 / Conference Publications
Land policies in East Africa: Technological Innovations, Administration and Patrimonial stakes International Conference Kampala, Uganda November 3 – 4 November 2011
June 23, 2011 / Land
Much attention has recently fallen on the ‘scramble’ for land and other natural resources in Africa to secure food supplies for populous Asian countries concerned about long-term food security. Yet mounting evidence (from the World Bank, from the International Land
June 22, 2011 / Events
Land policies in East Africa: Technological Innovations, Administration and Patrimonial stakes International Conference Kampala, Uganda November 3 - 4 November 2011 This conference aims at promoting scientific exchanges involving researchers and stakeholders dealing with land issues. Participants will be invited
June 22, 2011 / Policy Briefs
Policy Brief 41 by Ruth Hall ‘Africa is for sale’ is how some characterise it: there is a ‘land grab’ underway. Others are more cautious, speaking of ‘large-scale land acquisitions’, while the World Bank notes euphemistically the ‘rising global interest
June 21, 2011 / Young People, Farming & Food Conference
Young people constitute a high and increasing proportion of the African population, with around 70 percent of the continent’s total population currently under the age of 30. Evidence suggests many young people are choosing not to pursue livelihoods in the
June 21, 2011 / Political Economy of Agricultural Policy in Africa
Young people constitute a high and increasing proportion of the African population, with around 70 percent of the continent’s total population currently under the age of 30. Evidence suggests many young people are choosing not to pursue livelihoods in the
June 21, 2011 / Agricultural Investment, Gender and Land in Africa
Young people constitute a high and increasing proportion of the African population, with around 70 percent of the continent’s total population currently under the age of 30. Evidence suggests many young people are choosing not to pursue livelihoods in the
June 14, 2011 / News
FAC’s Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Team co-sponsored an international conference on ‘Sustainable Seed Systems in Ethiopia: Challenges and Opportunities’ in Addis Ababa on 1-2 June 2011, co-hosted by the Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research (EIAR), in partnership with The Netherlands’ Ministry
June 14, 2011 / News
FAC’s Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Team co-sponsored an international conference on ‘Sustainable Seed Systems in Ethiopia: Challenges and Opportunities’ in Addis Ababa on 1-2 June 2011, co-hosted by the Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research (EIAR), in partnership with The Netherlands’ Ministry
June 13, 2011 / Journal special issues
IDS BulletinVol 42 No. 4, 2011 This IDS Bulletin takes one element of a bigger debate – the future of cereal seed systems in Africa – and examines some of the challenges, dilemmas, prospects and possibilities for the future, deploying
June 7, 2011 / News
FAC’s Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Team co-sponsored an international conference on ‘Sustainable Seed Systems in Ethiopia: Challenges and Opportunities’ in Addis Ababa on 1-2 June 2011, co-hosted by the Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research (EIAR), in partnership with The
June 7, 2011 / News
FAC’s Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Team co-sponsored an international conference on ‘Sustainable Seed Systems in Ethiopia: Challenges and Opportunities’ in Addis Ababa on 1-2 June 2011, co-hosted by the Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research (EIAR), in partnership with The
June 7, 2011 / News
Structural and procedural properties important in promoting bio-enterprises as alternative livelihoods to pastoral and agro-pastoral livelihoods There is increasing interest in rural development circles in promoting alternative livelihoods opportunities for pastoral and agro-pastoral livelihoods. However, there is very little empirical
June 7, 2011 / Science, Technology and Innovation
FAC's Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Team co-sponsored an international conference on ‘Sustainable Seed Systems in Ethiopia: Challenges and Opportunities’ in Addis Ababa on 1-2 June 2011, co-hosted by the Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research (EIAR), in partnership with The
June 7, 2011 / News
Listen to Chris Brett (speaker), John Humphrey (chair) and FAC researcher, Jim Sumberg (attendee) discuss what they took from the seminar, A Business Approach to Food Security, IDS (31 May 2011) and what they think the food industry should do
June 7, 2011 / News
Oxfam launched a new campaign called Grow, which aims at securing the world’s food supply by calling on governments, businesses and consumers to take action on climate change, minimising food price fluctuations, preventing landgrabs and halting the move toward biofuels.
May 31, 2011 / News
A new report has matched future climate change ‘hotspots’ with populations that are already suffering from chronic food problems, mainly Africa and South Asia. However, China and Latin America are also at risk. The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change,
May 31, 2011 / Land
Special Issue on- Water Grabbing? Focus on the (Re)appropriation of Finite Water Resources Despite headline attention to ‘land grabbing’ the implications for existing surface and groundwater water resources have so far not been adequately examined.
May 25, 2011 / FAC Roundtable on Climate Change
Poster for the Presentation at the “Ideas Marketplace”, Agriculture and Rural Development Day, COP-16, Cancun (December 2010) Bridging Research and Policy on Climate Change and Agriculture Case studies in Africa
May 25, 2011 / FAC Roundtable on Climate Change
From the Presentation at the “Ideas Marketplace”, Agriculture and Rural Development Day, COP-16, Cancun (December 2010) Key messages: Competing narratives can generate conflicting objectives for adaptation in the agricultural sector Identifying policy spaces requires unpacking of narratives, actors and networks Policy
May 23, 2011 / Climate Change
Climate change adaptation research has evolved over the past few years but how much of it is being adopted or implemented as policy? How to influence decision-makers to adopt adaptation policies based on research findings? These were some of the
May 12, 2011 / Events
Download the Call for abstracts Background The Forum for Social Studies (FSS), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and the Centre for Development Research (CDR), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, issue a call for abstracts for a book on ‘RE-THINKING
May 12, 2011 / Events
1-3 June 2011, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Theme: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Seed Systems in Ethiopia Conference topics: Policies, strategies and institutions for seed system development Role and performance of the formal seed system Farmers'
May 11, 2011 / News
By Yohannes GebreMichael, Saidou Magagi, Wolfgang Bayer, and Ann Waters-Bayer An exploratory study was made in Ethiopia and Niger into pastoralists? responses to climate change. It identified a wide range of technical and institutional innovations that pastoralists developed to adapt to new
May 9, 2011 / Policy Briefs
Policy Brief 40 by Christophe Béné There has been much talk in the last few years about how agriculture is key to both poverty reduction and economic growth. In Africa, the New Economic Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) launched the
May 9, 2011 / Policy Briefs
Policy Brief 39 There is a widespread perception that ongoing social, economic, political, and environmental change processes in sub- Saharan Africa are leading to increasing levels of disadvantage based on social difference. This perception reflects the apparent inability of some
May 5, 2011 / Discussion Papers
Christine Okali This paper addresses the challenge of integrating learning from four decades of gender and feminist research in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) into the research of the Future Agricultures Consortium of the Institute of Development Studies. Specifically it explores what
May 3, 2011 / News
by Victoria Marin, Jon C. Lovett and Joy S. Clancy Biofuels driven land grab is often identified with land transactions conducted in developing countries by transnational/foreign companies/governments for the production of biofuels/feedstock for exports. This captures only partially the dynamics
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