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Steve Wiggins
Steve has almost three decades worth of experience working, researching and teaching economic and management aspects of agricultural and rural development. He also has experience in rural livelihoods rural economies and household economies; governance, including management, of rural development; change in farming systems, with particular interest in dairying; credit and rural banking; environmental change. He combines this with an extensive knowledge of Latin America and Africa.
Jump to: | Opinion Papers | Briefing Papers | Working Papers | Books | Others | Current Projects | Completed Projects
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Restoring Growth in African Agriculture ODI Opinions 45 |
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| 'Interest in African agriculture is being rekindled after two decades of relative neglect by both governments and donors - and corresponding slow growth of the sector. For most countries, agriculture has to grow if the economy is to develop, if rural poverty is be alleviated. It is now clear that getting the ‘Washington Consensus' conditions right for business may be necessary, but is certainly not sufficient to get agriculture moving. So what more needs to be done?' | ||
| Steve Wiggins | July 2005 | |
| Briefing Papers and Natural Resource Perspectives | ||
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Rural employment and migration: In search of decent work ODI Briefing Paper 27 |
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New thinking on rural employment is needed to create more and better rural jobs
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| Steve Wiggins and Priya Deshingkar | October 2007 | |
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Food security in Southern Africa Natural Resource Perspective 106 |
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| Changing the trend? Review of lessons learnt on recent responses to chronic and transitory hunger and vulnerability. The analysis of food shortages in southern Africa in recent years has prompted questions over how far they are chronic and how far generated by crises. Answers to these questions allow the respective roles of developmental, relief and social protection measures to be identified. Whilst much progress has been made, especially in the quality of information available, there remain difficulties in several areas, such as taking initiatives beyond the pilot scale, building national capacity to interpret and act on vulnerability assessments (in ways other than simply supplying more food) and in enhancing the consistency between donor and government policy. | ||
| Nick Maunder and Steve Wiggins | June 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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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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Responding to HIV/AIDS in agriculture and related activities ODI Natural Resource Perspectives 98 |
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| HIV/AIDS has multiple impacts on agriculture and the livelihoods of rural households which are only slowly being understood. This will gradually help in identifying the kinds of agricultural policy instrument that could offer appropriate support to HIV/ AIDS-affected households. At the same time, responses are also urgently required to ensure that hard-won gains in poverty reduction are not eroded by the pandemic’s effect on agricultural growth. This NRP explores the challenges posed for agriculture by the pandemic and considers a range of policy options. | ||
| Rachel Slater and Steve Wiggins | March 2005 | |
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The future of small farms: synthesis Future Agricultures Working Paper |
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| This paper addresses the question: Do small farms have a future in the developing world? The case for rural development is easy to make: the large majority of the poor live in the rural areas of the developing world. Even with urbanisation, this will not change for at least another 20 years. Although some of the rural poor may be helped by transfers from cities, for most any improvement in their incomes will depend on generating more and better jobs in rural areas. | ||
| Peter Hazell, Colin Poulton, Steve Wiggins and Andrew Dorward | November 2006 | |
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Reforming agricultural policy: lessons from four countries Future Agricultures Working Paper |
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Future Agricultures Working Paper: 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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Bolivia Case Study: an interpretative summary IPPG Working Paper 1 |
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| This essay addresses the question of why Bolivia has witnessed zero growth of per capita incomes over the second half of the twentieth century while other Latin American countries have seen their incomes roughly double over this period. | ||
| Steve Wiggins, Alexander Schejtman & George Gray | April 2006 | |
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Institutions and Pro-Poor Growth: Towards a Framework for Quantitative Analysis IPPG Discussion Paper 2 |
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| This paper reviews existing quantitative research on the relationship between institutions and economic growth in general, and pro-poor growth in particular. | ||
| Kunal Sen, Dirk Willem te Velde, Steve Wiggins and Massimilano Cali | 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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The challenges of HIV/AIDS for African agriculture Chapter in Commonwealth Health Ministers Book 2006 |
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| Steve Wiggins and Rachel Slater | 2006 | |
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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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Food security in Southern Africa: Changing the Trend? Review |
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| Review of the lessons learnt on recent responses to chronic and transitory hunger and vulnerability. | ||
| Nick Maunder & Steve Wiggins | November 2006 | |
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Zimbabwe: Protracted Relief Programme (PRP) Output to Purpose Review Project Report |
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| This Output to Purpose Review (OPR) looks at the Protracted Relief Programme (PRP), designed to stabilise the food security and protect the livelihoods of poor and vulnerable households, particularly those affected by HIV/AIDS. It look in particular at livelihoods; social development; HIV/AIDS, home-based care (HBC) and nutrition; and, institutions and governance. | ||
| Sue Jones, Girlmerina Matiza, Baki Mlalazi & Steve Wiggins | October 2005 | |
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Scoping study towards DFIDSA's Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme Scoping Study |
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The Scoping Study towards the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme (RHVP) is based on the premise that there are policy and institutional limitations across the region that, if satisfactorily addressed, will enhance poor people’s access to food and thereby meet a key objective of DFID strategy.
The framework within which the scoping study was carried out was based on an outline narrative summary of the RHVP. This included the goal of the RHVP: “To reduce vulnerability to food insecurity in the Southern African region”. The purpose is: “to promote region-wide adoption and implementation of coordinated policies with respect to the availability, access and utilisation of food”. |
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| Steve Wiggins, Nick Maunder, James Carnegie, Ben Roberts, Reuben Mokoena & Norma Tregurtha. | August 2004 | |
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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 | |
| Improving Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth | ||
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The IPPG Programme is the shorthand title of the Research Programme Consortium on Improving Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth, funded for five years by DFID, from September 2005, and based in the Development Studies Institute (DESTIN) of the London School of Economics. |
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| Dirk Willem te Velde, Steve Wiggins | 2005-2010 | |
| Future Agricultures | ||
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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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| Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa | ||
| The Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa provides a platform for improved linkages between food security analysis, policy making and implementation in the Southern Africa region. | ||
| Rachel Slater, Steve Wiggins | 2003 | |
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