October 1, 2010 / FAC Roundtable on Climate Change
Lars Otto Naess Research Fellow Climate Change and Development Centre, Institute of Development Studies Roundtable meeting, Fairview Hotel, Nairobi, 30 September 2010
October 1, 2010 / FAC Roundtable on Climate Change
Paul M. GuthigaKIPPRA Roundtable meeting on policy processes on climate change and agriculture 30 September 2010 -Fairview Hotel, Nairobi
October 1, 2010 / FAC Roundtable on Climate Change
Harun Warui and Kennedy Were Environmental Research Programme/Climate Change Unit Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI)
September 26, 2010 / Occasional Papers
Steve Wiggins and Henri Leturque January 2010 Understandable concern exists over the state of hunger in Africa: almost one third of the population are estimated to be hungry, while more than a quarter of infants are underweight in the countries
September 23, 2010 / Journal special issues
Journal of Peasant StudiesVol 37, Issue 4, 2010 The Journal of Peasant Studies special issue addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. Contributions are based on fresh empirical materials from different parts of
September 23, 2010 / Working Papers
Blessings Chinsinga August 2010 This paper provides a critical account of the cereal seed systems in Malawi both in a historical and contemporary context with particular reference to the three input support programmes implemented since the late 1990s to date.
September 23, 2010 / Working Papers
Hannington Odame and Elijah Muange August 2010 The Government of Kenya, with the backing of development and charitable organisations, has been implementing programmes to increase agricultural productivity and rural incomes and trigger a new Green Revolution (GR). These activities focus
September 23, 2010 / Working Papers
The Political Economy of Cereal Seed Systems in Zimbabwe: Rebuilding the Seed System in a Post-Crisis Charity Mutonodzo-Davies August 2010 A decade of economic and political turmoil in Zimbabwe, as well as a period of radical land reform which reconfigured
September 23, 2010 / Working Papers
Kojo Sebastian Amanor August 2010 This paper examines the changing framework of cereal seed policy in Ghana from a state-led public sector service in the 1960s to a commercial sector activity in the 2000s, and the implications of these changes.
September 23, 2010 / Working Papers
The Political Economy of Ethiopian Cereal Seed Systems: State Control, Market Liberalisation and Decentralisation Dawit Alemu August 2010 This paper presents the political and economic processes governing Ethiopian cereal seed systems by analysing the overall policy context, as well as
September 23, 2010 / The Political Economy of Seed System Reform
Blessings Chinsinga August 2010 This paper provides a critical account of the cereal seed systems in Malawi both in a historical and contemporary context with particular reference to the three input support programmes implemented since the late 1990s to date.
September 23, 2010 / The Political Economy of Seed System Reform
Hannington Odame and Elijah Muange August 2010 The Government of Kenya, with the backing of development and charitable organisations, has been implementing programmes to increase agricultural productivity and rural incomes and trigger a new Green Revolution (GR). These activities focus
September 23, 2010 / The Political Economy of Seed System Reform
Kojo Sebastian Amanor August 2010 This paper examines the changing framework of cereal seed policy in Ghana from a state-led public sector service in the 1960s to a commercial sector activity in the 2000s, and the implications of these changes.
September 23, 2010 / The Political Economy of Seed System Reform
The Political Economy of Cereal Seed Systems in Zimbabwe: Rebuilding the Seed System in a Post-Crisis Charity Mutonodzo-Davies August 2010 A decade of economic and political turmoil in Zimbabwe, as well as a period of radical land reform which reconfigured
September 23, 2010 / The Political Economy of Seed System Reform
The Political Economy of Ethiopian Cereal Seed Systems: State Control, Market Liberalisation and Decentralisation Dawit Alemu August 2010 This paper presents the political and economic processes governing Ethiopian cereal seed systems by analysing the overall policy context, as well as
September 23, 2010 / CAADP
Amdissa Teshome, on behalf of Future Agricultures, was invited to this workshop by the NEPAD Planning and Coordination Secretariat (NPCS). This is the first time that FAC has been invited without us contacting the AU/NEPAD/CAADP so it is a progress
September 23, 2010 / CAADP
Amdissa Teshome, on behalf of Future Agricultures, was invited to this workshop by the NEPAD Planning and Coordination Secretariat (NPCS). This is the first time that FAC has been invited without us contacting the AU/NEPAD/CAADP so it is a progress
September 23, 2010 / Climate Change
The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) in partnership with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Sussex, UK and the Future Agriculture Consortium (FAC) organised a one day round table meeting for policy makers, implementers and researchers
September 23, 2010 / Climate Change
Future Agriculture Consortium (FAC) organised a one day round table meeting for policy makers, implementers and researchers involved in work on climate change and agriculture in Adis Adaba on 11 November 2010.
September 20, 2010 / Occasional Papers
A joint publication by Friends of Europe, the Overseas Development Institute and FAC. Steve Wiggins and Henri Leturque January 2010 Understandable concern exists over the state of hunger in Africa: almost one third of the population are estimated to be
September 16, 2010 / FAC blog
Overall, the report certainly offers a useful compilation of existing data and provides a selective review of other studies. Like other research, the report shows how the global ‘land grab’ is complex, often involving multiple actors, including national governments. It
September 15, 2010 / Seasonality Revisited
This is the blog for Seasonality Revisited, an international conference on seasonal poverty taking place from 8-10 July at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK. You are invited to read these posts and comment generously to make the online
September 15, 2010 / University of the Bush
This is the blog for Seasonality Revisited, an international conference on seasonal poverty taking place from 8-10 July at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK. You are invited to read these posts and comment generously to make the online
September 15, 2010 / News
31 Years of Silence is Over Surely we know enough – certainly rural people know more than enough. Now is the time to get some seasonality traction with these policies. Richard Longhurst
September 15, 2010 / Seasonality Revisited - Background Report and Papers
This paper explores the two main reasons that explain why access to food changes by season: the variability of the cost of food and the variability of available incomes. Firstly, this paper looks at how much money is required to
September 15, 2010 / Seasonality Revisited - Background Report and Papers
Growing evidence suggests that disaster occurrences have undermined progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. Reducing poverty and hunger is contingent on the establishment of a set of policies and associated programmes that support peoples livelihood systems and strategies and „proof
September 15, 2010 / Seasonality Revisited - Background Report and Papers
Isolated wetlands are among the most seasonal of ecosystems in semi-arid Africa. Their role is important but varying throughout the year for a number of different user groups. They are links in a number of different seasonal chains. But these
September 15, 2010 / Seasonality Revisited - Background Report and Papers
School feeding programmes are effective social protection tools that have the potential to reach the most vulnerable households. The programmes transfer resources implicitly or explicitly to poor households of the value of the food provided, therefore offsetting the costs of
September 15, 2010 / Seasonality Revisited - Background Report and Papers
In today’s difficult situation, a more exact awareness and a wider diffusion of the set of principles for reflection, criteria for judgment and directives for action would be of great help in promoting both the correct definition of the problems
September 15, 2010 / Seasonality Revisited - Background Report and Papers
Investigating Seasonality and Poverty: The 2004/05 Malawi Integrated Household Survey The predominance of rain-fed agricultural cultivation in Malawi, makes income and consumption to be highly seasonal for more than 80 percent of the population that largely derive their livelihoods from
September 15, 2010 / Seasonality Revisited - Background Report and Papers
Dekha Sheikh and Corinne Valdivia Climate Variability, Location and Diversification: Livestock Assets in Consumption Smoothing in Shock and Non-shock Seasons in two Regions of Kenya This study focuses on the coping strategies developed by households in five Kenyan villages, experiencing
September 15, 2010 / Seasonality Revisited - Background Report and Papers
Water-Bound Geographies of Seasonality: Investigating Seasonality, Water, and Wealth in Ethiopia through the Household Water Economy Approach The Household Water Economy Approach (HWEA) is a new approach that was designed in 2007-08 to bring analytical rigour to understanding the inter-linkages
September 15, 2010 / Seasonality Revisited - Background Report and Papers
Seasonal variation in agricultural and rural economy is a fundamental phenomenon characterising rural development in China. Socioeconomic consequences of seasonal patterns of household income, consumption and labour mobility need to be understood for designing appropriate interventions to smooth seasonality and
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