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Lídia Cabral
As an economist and social scientist, Lidia has experience in public policy formulation and implementation (PRSP, MTEF & State Budgets), budget system analysis (Public Expenditure Reviews) and aid management (SWAPs), with strong focus on south-eastern Africa. Her current research interests include macro policy processes in the agriculture sector, with a focus on government-donor interfaces, and roles and effectiveness of non-state actors in poverty reduction and rural development.
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Funding agriculture: not 'how much?' but 'what for?' ODI Opinions 86 |
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| 'Before calling for an increase in the volume of funding to agriculture, we need a better understanding of how resources are being used' | ||
| Lidia Cabral | October 2007 | |
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Changing aid delivery and the environment ODI Briefing Paper 17 |
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| This paper examines how environmental objectives are pursued by donors in a context where aid delivery mechanisms are changing, asking how donor support can best be delivered to meet environmental objectives. | ||
| Neil Bird and Lidia Cabral | March 2007 | |
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Politics and the Future of Ministries of Agriculture: Rethinking Roles and Transforming Agendas Future Agricultures Briefing |
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| What form should a contemporary Ministry of Agriculture take, and how should it function? The answers to these questions depend on three major issues set within the context of agriculture. | ||
| Lídia Cabral and Steve Wiggins | January 2007 | |
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What Role for Ministries of Agriculture
in the 21st century? Future Agricultures Briefing Paper |
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"Different ‘narratives’ – or storylines – about agricultural policies are being pushed by different actors in the policy process, each envisages a different kind of ministry of agriculture. Three different versions are elaborated." |
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| Lídia Cabral and Ian Scoones | 2007 | |
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The Millennium Villages Project – a new approach to ending rural poverty in Africa? ODI Natural Resource Perspectives 101 |
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| Proponents of the Millennium Villages Project argue that the complex problems facing rural development in Africa require a ‘big push’ if substantive progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is to be made – and propose the simultaneous introduction of improvements in agriculture, health, transport, energy, technology, telecommunications and internet connectivity, costing US$110 per person per year over 5 years, and funded mainly from aid flows. This paper examines the challenges this initiative faces, and the questions it raises, in its search for ‘quick wins’ to reach the MDGs. | ||
| Lidia Cabral, John Farrington and Eva Ludi | August 2006 | |
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Poverty Reduction Strategies and the Rural Productive Sectors: What have we learnt, what else do we need to ask? ODI Natural Resource Perspectives 100 |
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| Despite the fact that more that 75 percent of the world’s poor live and work in rural areas, five years of experience with Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRSs) show that they have generally not dealt well with rural poverty and the rural economy. This paper argues that significant challenges remain in exploring the potential contribution of the rural productive sectors to growth and poverty reduction. | ||
| Lidia Cabral | May 2006 | |
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Narratives of Agricultural Policy in Africa: What Role for Ministries of Agriculture? Future Agricultures Briefing Paper |
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| Which of the different models for Ministries of Agriculture make sense today. | ||
| Lídia Cabral and Steve Wiggins | 2006 | |
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Donor Policy Narratives: What Role
for Agriculture? Future Agricultures Briefing Paper |
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| How do international agencies concerned with agricultural development see the role of agriculture? What is the role for the market and the state? This briefing examines four recent statements from major aid agencies, asking how they see the role of agriculture in development. | ||
| Lídia Cabral and Ian Scoones | 2006 | |
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Climate change and agriculture Donor reports |
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Series of five outputs produced under a small project for the Renewable Natural Resources and Agriculture Team of the UK Department for International Development (DFID). The objective of the project was to identify the implications of climate change for key areas of DFID's Agricultural Policy and the Renewable Natural Resources and Agriculture (RNRA) Team portfolio and to produce a series of practical outputs to assist the RNRA team in programme implementation and communication. The five papers are:
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| Leo Peskett, Rachel Slater, Martin Prowse, Nanki Kaur-Mann, Eva Ludi, Christopher Stevens, Lídia Cabral, David Brown, Tom Slaymaker | March 2007 | |
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Reforming agricultural policy: lessons from four countries
Future Agricultures Working Paper |
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This working paper presents the first stage of a review of agricultural reform experiences within African countries, specifically Ethiopia, Kenya and Malawi. It aims to draw out issues for would-be reformers by examining the experience of four cases of agricultural reform, purposely selected as often being seen as successful. |
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| Lídia Cabral, Colin Poulton, Steve Wiggins & Linxiu Zhang | July 2006 | |
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Poverty Reduction Strategies and the Rural Productive Sectors: Insights from Malawi, Nicaragua and Vietnam ODI Working Paper 258 |
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| This paper looks at the treatment of rural productive sectors in PRSs – particularly agriculture but also, more briefly, tourism, forestry and fisheries. | ||
| Elizabeth Cromwell, Cecilia Luttrell, Andrew Shepherd and Steve Wiggins. Edited by Lidia Cabral | December 2005 | |
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Narratives of Agricultural Policy in Africa: What Role for Ministries of Agriculture? Future Agricultures Working Paper |
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| Paper for the Future Agricultures Consortium workshop exploring how policy narratives on the role of the state in agriculture have influenced and defined the role of ministries of agriculture in Africa. | ||
| Lidia Cabral and Ian Scoones | March 2006 | |
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Evaluation of Sector-wide approach in environment: Colombia Case Study Report - Characteristics, opportunities, risks and recommendations for taking the experience forward Research report |
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| This is a report for the Policy Evaluation Department of the Directorate-General for International Cooperation (DGIS). This Colombia study forms part of a larger project led by MetaMeta Management for the DGIS Policy Evaluation Department to evaluate how environmental SWAps in three countries - Vietnam , Senegal and Colombia - have contributed to progress towards the environmental objectives of the three national governments, in accordance with Dutch Cooperation policy. In the Colombian case, the preparation process is recent, as formalised in the financing agreement ( acuerdo de financiación ) of August 2007. | ||
| Peter Newborne, Francisco Javier Canal (Instituto para la Sostenibilidad del Desarrollo) and Rafael Gómez-R | ||
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Formulating and Implementing Sector-wide Approaches in Agriculture and Rural Development: The National Programme of Agrarian Development (PROAGRI) – Mozambique Project report |
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| This report is the product of a two-week field study on the Mozambican experience with Sector Wide Approaches in the agriculture sector. This is part of a larger study commissioned by the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development. The overall purpose of the study is to examine past, present and future roles of agriculture and rural development SWAps within the broader context of changes in development assistance. | ||
| Animesh Shrivastava (FAO) and Cardoso Muendane (SICS Sarl) | February 2007 | |
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Formulating and Implementing Sector-wide Approaches in Agriculture and Rural Development Synthesis report |
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| This study takes a first and comprehensive look at some of the ways in which SWAps and SWAp-type approaches have evolved in A&RD. It includes case studies from seven countries, with in-depth information available for three – Mozambique, Tanzania and Nicaragua – and assesses the extent to which SWAps are achieving their aims, their intended trajectories of change and provides key lessons for the future. | ||
| Dr. Alison Evans with Lidia Cabral, Steve Wiggins and Martin Greeley | November 2007 | |
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Sector Wide Approaches in Brazil: Features, drivers and emerging lessons Project report |
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| This study was commissioned by the Brazil office of the UK Department for International Development in response to the growing interest in the role of sector wide approaches (SWAps) in middle income countries (MICs) such as Brazil. The aim of this study is to provide a synthesis of lessons learned from SWAps supported by the World Bank in Brazil, and to offer recommendations on how to take the experience forward. The study was undertaken through a desk review of the relevant literature and interviews with officials of development agencies, the Government of Brazil and the Government of the state of Ceará, focusing on three SWAp cases. | ||
| Richard Batley and Celina Souza | February 2007 | |
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Addressing Environmental Objectives in the Context of Budget Support Project report |
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| This report looks at how environmental objectives are pursued by donors in a context of changing aid architecture. It examines how General Budget Support (GBS), and other aid instruments, can be used to promote action on environmental programmes that contribute to poverty reduction. | ||
| Neil Bird, A ndrew Lawson and David Brown | 2007 | |
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Addressing environment challenges in the context of budget support Presentation slides |
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| Neil Bird, Lidia Cabral | 17 October 2006 | |
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Aid modalities to agriculture – the end of the SWAp? Hot Topic Paper |
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| Provides an overview of what agricultural Sector Wide Approaches (SWAps) have delivered. | ||
| Lidia Cabral | November 2006 | |
| Current projects | ||
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| Sector Wide Approaches in Agriculture and Rural Development | ||
| The overall purpose of this study is to examine past, present and future roles of A&RD SWAPs within the broader context of changes in development assistance. . | ||
| Alison Evans, Lidia Cabral, Steve Wiggins | March 2006 - May 2007 | |
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Future Agricultures is a research consortium aiming to answer these questions by stimulating debate and creating policy options for pro-poor agricultural growth. |
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| Lídia Cabral, Steve Wiggins, Kay Sharp, Eva Ludi | ||
| Poverty Reduction Strategies and the Rural Productive Sectors | ||
| This study for IFAD seeks to identify the root-causes of the identified weaknesses in PRSP processes (including limited engagement of rural stakeholders, disconnects between rural poverty assessments, policy prioritisation and resource allocation) and provide a constructive approach on how to overcome them. | ||
| Lidia Cabral, Steve Wiggins, Eva Ludi | ||
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| Addressing environmental objectives in the context of budget support | ||
| Investigating which aid instruments are best suited to promote environmental management that contributes to poverty reduction and development, and under which circumstances. | ||
| Neil Bird, Lidia Cabral, Andrew Lawson and David Brown | 2006 | |
| Experiences with Sector Wide Approaches in Brazil | ||
| Study of the Brazilian experience with Sector Wide Approaches (SWAps) aimed at providing a synthesis of lessons learned in key aspects of SWAps and offer recommendations on how to take the experience forward. | ||
| Lídia Cabral, Richard Batley and Celina Souza, with David Booth and Andrew Lawson | 2006-2007 | |
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