1 January 2013
Food Price Volatility and Financial Speculation
Published by: Future Agricultures Consortium
Understanding better the relationship between financial markets and food price volatility is the motivation for this paper.
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1 January 2013
Published by: Future Agricultures Consortium
Understanding better the relationship between financial markets and food price volatility is the motivation for this paper.
30 November 2012
Published by: IDS
The articles in this IDS Bulletin are drawn from the conference on 'Young People, Farming and Food' in Accra, Ghana. This conference examined how young people engage with the agri-food sector in Africa and how research findings were being integrated into policy processes.
4 September 2012
Published by: Future Agricultures Consortium
Small farmers in Africa have long been engaged with markets. Whenever villages have been connected to urban or overseas markets, smallholders have produced surpluses for them at times prompting remarkable transformations in rural economies.
1 September 2012
Published by: Future Agricultures Consortium
This paper explores climate change - agriculture debates in Malawi in view of the increasing interest and funding pledges for the agricultural sector in a changing climate.
This 3-year project looks at what the commercialisation of land and agriculture might mean for growth and poverty reduction in Africa.
Examining relationships between farm and non-farm activities in rural economies in three Southern African countries.
1 January 2012
Published by: Future Agricultures Consortium
The argument developed is that over a number of key policy areas, youth and the issues and challenges associated with them, are often the objects of negative framings.
1 January 2012
Published by: IDS
This article uses the example of small‐scale, labour‐intensive tomato production in Brong Ahafo, Ghana to explore some prospects of...
1 January 2012
Published by: Taylor and Francis
This article examines the role played by Norman Borlaug in promoting the notion of Green Revolution as a way to rapidly transform agriculture in the developing world.
1 January 2012
Published by: Wiley
We suggest that a recent commentary piece in The Geographical Journal on Conservation Agriculture (CA) and the System of Rice...