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Martin Prowse
Martin has a background in Development Studies and joined ODI in August 2006 after completing his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester . He works both for the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, where he is involved in editing the second Chronic Poverty Report, and for RPGG, currently on contract farming and agribusiness development in sub-Saharan Africa. His wider research interests include rural livelihoods research, food security, value chain analysis, state ‘fragility' and failure, and Q-squared methodological approaches.
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Mitigating climate change: what impact on the poor? ODI Opinion 97 |
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The impact of climate change is of vital importance. But, for the world’s poor, policies to mitigate climate change may, in the short term, have as much impact as climate change itself. This Opinion assesses four mitigation strategies and their possible impacts on the poor: environmental labelling; green growth strategies; biofuel production and food prices; and forest protection. |
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| Martin Prowse and Leo Peskett | April 2008 | |
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Making contract farming work with co-operatives ODI Opinion 87 |
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| 'A greater focus on strengthening market-orientated producer organisations and dispute-resolution mechanisms between farmers and firms may increase the chances of win-win outcomes from this form of institutional innovation' | ||
| Martin Prowse | October 2007 | |
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Millennium Development Goal 1, agriculture and climate change ODI Opinion 85 |
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| 'Over 60% of people in sub-Saharan Africa are reliant on agriculture for their income. However, the potential impacts of climate change pose two key questions for current agriculture-led strategies to reduce poverty.' | ||
| Martin Prowse and Tim Braunholtz | October 2007 | |
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Making agriculture work for the poor ODI Natural Resource Perspectives 111 |
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| This paper look at the links between poverty, agriculture and land, reporting on panel data analysis in five countries – Vietnam, Uganda, India, Nicaragua and Ethiopia. It suggests that three ‘pillars' can help to make agriculture work for the rural poor – infrastructure, education and information. | ||
| Martin Prowse and Admos Chimhowu | October 2007 | |
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Aid effectiveness: the role of qualitative research in impact evaluation ODI Background Note |
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| Background note examining different approaches to increasing aid effectiveness, with a particular emphasis on the role randomised control trials could play. | ||
| Martin Prowse | December 2007 | |
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The poverty and inequality debate in the UK ODI Background Note |
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| Thoughts on terminology and approaches following Scarman lecture by David Cameron (the Leader of the Conservative Party in the UK), ‘From state welfare to social enterprise’. | ||
| Martin Prowse | January 2007 | |
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The Experience of Sure Start in England Social Cohesion Practical Experiences and Initiatives No. 19 |
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| Sure Start has been a key Labour government policy to tackle child poverty and social exclusion. Sure Start has focussed on the health and welfare of children under the age of four (and their families) in areas of high socio-economic deprivation. The aim has been to give children the best start in life through service provision to support them and their parents. This report offers a summary of the experience of Sure Start from inception in 1998 to its metamorphosis into Children’s Centres in 2007. | ||
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Vulnerability, Poverty and Coping in Zimbabwe UNU/WIDER Research Paper No. 2008/41 |
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This paper uses five life histories from three locations in Zimbabwe—one peri-urban, one urban and one rural—to provide a window on current processes of impoverishment and adverse coping. Each case and location highlight key aspects of Zimbabwe’s recent economic and political turmoil. Together the cases suggest that, similar to Hoddinott’s work on the persistence of the 1993-94 rainfall shock in rural Zimbabwe, above and beyond increased mortality rates and morbidity levels, current adverse forms of coping are creating widespread irreversible wellbeing losses. |
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| Kate Bird and Martin Prowse | ||
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Locating and Extending Livelihoods Research Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper 37 |
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| Much poverty and development research is not explicit about its methodology or philosophical foundations. Based on the extended case method of Burawoy and the epistemological standpoint of critical realism, this paper discusses a methodological approach for reflexive inductive livelihoods research that overcomes the unproductive social science dualism of positivism and social constructivism. The approach is linked to a conceptual framework and a menu of research methods that can be sequenced and iterated in light of research questions. | ||
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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 | ||
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