Journal special issues
Future Agricultures members occasionally contribute to special issues of journals. These provide thorough, peer-reviewed studies of the big issues affecting agricultural research and policy in Africa today.
Journal issues are not normally available free of charge, though selected articles are sometimes offered free or at a discount.
Latest articles
Development Policy Review: The Political Economy of Agricultural Policy in Africa
September 17, 2014 / Journal special issues Development Policy Review, Volume 32, Issue s2September 2014 These articles are open access. Democratisation and the Political Incentives for Agricultural Policy in Africa Colin Poulton Beyond Technocratic Debates: The Significance and Transience of Political Incentives in the Malawi Farm Input
China and Brazil in African Agriculture
July 3, 2013 / Journal special issues Scoones, I., Cabral, L. and Tugendhat, H.IDS Bulletin 44.4 Order a copy from the IDS Bookshop View abstracts and subscribe to the IDS Bulletin Free to download – pre-submitted Bulletin articles This IDS Bulletin draws on work from the Future
Development and Change: Governing the Global Land Grab: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land
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
IDS Virtual Bulletin: Ending Hunger and Malnutrition
December 12, 2012 / Journal special issues IDS Virtual Bulletin 2 Editor: Haddad, L.Free download This ‘virtual bulletin’ by the Institute of Development Studies, the second in a series, brings together articles published between 1982 and 2012 on this critical issue. It includes articles produced as part
Young People and Agriculture in Africa
October 31, 2012 / Journal special issues Sumberg, J. and Wellard, K. IDS Bulletin 43.6 Publisher IDS Buy a copy of this Bulletin from the IDS website View abstracts and subscribe to this IDS Bulletin Despite increased commitment to evidence-based policy in African agriculture, the profile of
Water Alternatives: Water grabbing? Focus on the (re)appropriation of finite water resources
June 1, 2012 / Journal special issues Water AlternativesVolume 5, Issue 2 Water Alternatives is a free-access journal. Recent large-scale land acquisitions for agricultural production (including biofuels), popularly known as ‘land grabbing’, have attracted headline attention. Water as both a target and driver of this phenomenon has
Journal of Peasant Studies: The New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Land Deals
May 28, 2012 / Journal special issues Journal of Peasant StudiesIssue 39, Vol 3-4 This collection explores the complex dynamics of corporate land deals in a broad agrarian political economy perspective, with a special focus on the implications for property and labour regimes, labour processes and structures
Journal of Peasant Studies: Green grabbing – a new appropriation of nature?
April 12, 2012 / Journal special issues Journal of Peasant StudiesVolume 39, Issue 2, 2012 This Journal of Peasant Studies issue draws new theorisation together with 17 cases from African, Asian and Latin American settings, and links critical studies of nature with critical agrarian studies, to ask:
IDS Bulletin: The Politics of Seed in Africa’s Green Revolution
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
IDS Bulletin: Political Economy of Climate Change
March 25, 2011 / Journal special issues IDS BulletinVol. 42 No. 3, 2011 Despite the inherently political nature of international negotiations on climate change, much of the theory, debate, evidence-gathering and implementation linking climate change and development assume a largely apolitical and linear policy process. As the
Journal of Peasant Studies: The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change
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
IDS Bulletin: New Directions for African Agriculture
June 1, 2005 / Journal special issues IDS BulletinVol. 36 No. 2, 2005 Edited by Ian Scoones, Aaron deGrassi, Stephen Devereux and Lawrence Haddad Both this year’s UN Millennium Report and The Commission for Africa Report highlight the lack of progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals