September 15, 2010 / Seasonality Revisited - Day 1
Food affordability Brighton, 8th of July 2009 Dealing with seasonal variation of purchasing power and monitoring hunger Save the Children UK
September 15, 2010 / Seasonality Revisited - Day 1
Understanding Seasonality Implications on Quality of Life through the Innovative JCTR Rural Basket: The Case of Select Rural Areas of Matushi, Saka and Malama of Zambia By Miniva Chibuye (JCTR) In today’s difficult situation, a more exact awareness and a
September 15, 2010 / Seasonality Revisited - Day 1
Using participatory budgets to investigate farmers’ practices and the factors influencing them during production seasons in Ghana and Zimbabwe Peter Dorward, Derek Shepherd, Mark Galpin University of Reading
September 15, 2010 / Seasonality Revisited - Day 1
Investigating Seasonality Poverty Analysis: The 2004/5 Malawi Integrated Household Survey DRAFT Ephraim Chirwa Andrew Dorward Marcella Vigneri Wadonda Consult University of Malawi School of Oriental African Studies, University of London Overseas Development Institute
September 15, 2010 / Seasonality Revisited
The Future Agricultures Consortium together with the Centre for Social Protection is convening a 3–day conference on Seasonality, to be held on Wednesday 8th to Friday 10th July 2009 at IDS Sussex.
September 15, 2010 / University of the Bush
The Future Agricultures Consortium together with the Centre for Social Protection is convening a 3–day conference on Seasonality, to be held on Wednesday 8th to Friday 10th July 2009 at IDS Sussex.
September 15, 2010 / Seasonality Revisited
The Seasonality Revisited International Conference, was held at the Institute of Development Studies from 8-10 July 2009, concluded that the costs of ignoring the seasonal dimensions of poverty are enormous, despite seasonality being rarely reflected in agricultural investment and social
September 15, 2010 / FAC blog
There are two principal reasons for the decline in the total number of hungry people and both have to do with the reversal of two recent crises: the reduction of food prices from their peak levels of 2007-8 and the
September 13, 2010 / News
Updated figures on the number of people worldwide who suffer chronic hunger is released at a press conference at FAO’s headquarters in Rome on Tuesday, 14 September 2010 at 13.30h. www.fao.org/webcast/
August 12, 2010 / FAC blog
Economic growth and employment Ian Scoones, Professorial Fellow at IDS and Co-Director of the STEPS Centre, explained: ‘The idea seems simple. Africa has significant comparative advantage in a range of important commodities with global demand. The growth of such industries
August 6, 2010 / Climate Change
The objective is to investigate how international climate change policy processes play out in national and sub-national agricultural contexts and to ascertain how these influence and are influenced by particular policy narratives, actors, networks and interests. Specifically, the study will
August 5, 2010 / Policy Briefs
Demographic trends point to more young people in the African population than ever before – approximately 70 percent of Africa’s 1 billion people is under the age of 30. Across the continent many young people are reportedly choosing not to
August 4, 2010 / FAC blog
I want to argue, however, that support for agriculture and food security must be central to the implementation of this new plan and that, across the departmental priorities, a focus on support for agriculture, food systems and rural livelihoods must
July 30, 2010 / Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant
With continuing strong world prices for agricultural commodities, agriculture researchers met recently in London to examine how African farmers might boost commercial production of crops such as rice and cotton. The workshop goal was to critically examining a recent study
July 19, 2010 / Policy Briefs
In 2009 the World Bank published a report entitled Awakening Africa’s Sleeping Giant: Prospects for Commercial Agriculture in theGuinea Savannah Zone and Beyond. The report highlights the agricultural potential of Africa’s Guinea Savannah (henceforth GS) zone, which it describes as
July 19, 2010 / Policy Briefs
Colin Poulton and Gem Argwings-Kodhek June 2010 Kenya will vote on a new constitution in August 2010. The document proposes greater decentralisation of government with elected governors heading 47 counties that will replace the current system of provinces and districts.
July 13, 2010 / Working Papers
Stephen Devereux January 2009 Various explanations have been advanced for the persistent under?performance of agriculture in many African countries, where smallholder farming is still the dominant livelihood activity and the main source of employment, food and income. Some of the
July 13, 2010 / Research Papers
Booker Owuor, Beatrice Wambui, Gem Argwings-Kodhek and Colin Poulton December 2009 Agriculture is the backbone of Kenya’s economy with many urban, and most rural folk deriving their livelihoods directly or indirectly from agriculture. The performance of the sector is therefore
July 13, 2010 / Research Papers
The Role and Performance of the Ministries of Agriculture and Rural Development in Nyeri South District June 2010 The workshop was held in the CDF Hall, Othaya, Nyeri South district, on 5th February 2010. The main objectives of the workshop
July 13, 2010 / Research Papers
FAC’s Malawi teamOctober 2009 This workshop was held on 23rd October 2009 at Panjira Lodge in Dedza district. The workshop brought together officials working in the agricultural sector from Thyolo, Dedza and Rumphi districts. The participants included District Agricultural Development
July 13, 2010 / Research Papers
Colin Poulton and Andrew Dorward June 2008 This paper argues that the state has a large potential role in increasing staple food crop productivity as a result of The importance of staple food crop intensification in driving and supporting pro-poor
July 7, 2010 / Workshop Publications
Options for Pastoral/Agro-pastoral Extension System in Ethiopia Panel Discussion Organised by the Pastoral Community Development Project (PCDP) of the Ministry of Federal Affairs In collaboration with Future Agricultures Consortium (Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK) July 12, 2010 Ghion Hotel
July 5, 2010 / Working Papers
James Sumberg & Rachel Sabates-Wheeler June 2010 This paper is an output from the initial phase of the Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) Project which is funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and implemented by the Partnership for Child
July 2, 2010 / News
Included in this newsletter: Awakening Africa’s Sleeping Giant New FAC website Seasonality, Rural Livelihoods and Development Kenya policy engagement Growth and Social Protection Malawi signs CAADP Compact FAC continues work on Malawi’s fertiliser programme Pastoralism Climate Change FAC in West
June 30, 2010 / FAC blog
The workshop debated the pitfalls and potentials of the ‘Sleeping Giant’ thesis from multiple viewpoints. The lead author of the report, Hans Binswanger, argued that the northeast Thailand pathway was both efficient and desirable, building on the comparative advantages of
June 24, 2010 / News
Philip Woodhouse, Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 10 No. 3, July 2010, pp. 437–453. Although modern agriculture has increased food production faster than populationgrowth in recent decades, there are concerns that existing models of‘industrial agriculture’ are unsustainable due to long-run
June 18, 2010 / Sleeping Giant
Presentation by Colin Poulton, SOAS
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