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Agricultural development policy: a contemporary agenda
This paper summarises the current state of thinking on agricultural policies for development. -
Leaping and learning: linking smallholders to markets
This report provides a comprehensive review of the existing literature on smallholder-centred market-based interventions. -
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Source: Imperial College LondonMaking links from small farms to markets in Africa: lessons from villages and supply chains
Creating better links between small-scale farmers and firms in supply chains is a pressing issue for agricultural development in Africa. This event draws on the findings of research carried out by researchers in the Futures Agricultures Consortiumand the Leaping & Learning programme with colleagues from Agriculture for Impact.
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The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy and development
Dirk Willem te Velde, Sheila Page, Nicola Cantore, Alan Matthews, Michael King, Ole Boysen and Niels KeijzerThis ODI Project Briefing summarises work from ODI on the current EU Common Agricultural Policy, proposals for its reform, and its impact on developing countries. -
Four lessons to help link small farmers to agricultural value chains
'What matters more are functions, and the processes and approaches that lead to effective links between smallholders and markets.' -
The linkage between outcome differences in cotton production and rural roads improvements: a matching approach
This paper tests the linkage between a binary treatment (rural road improvement project) and a continuous outcome (cotton productivity) in Zambia’s agro-based Eastern Province as measured by repeated cross-sections of farm-level data from the Zambian post-harvest survey (PHS). -
Leaping and learning: strategies for taking agricultural successes to scale in sub-Saharan Africa
ODI's joint project with Agriculture for Impact, Firetail and the Glasshouse Partnership'Leaping and Learning: Taking Agricultural Successes to Scale' has focused on providing development partners with access to independent, evidence-based recommendations that set out practical policy options and approaches for scaling up smallholder agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa to ensure food and nutrition security and poverty reduction.
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The impact of EU sugar policy reform on developing countries
LMC International and Overseas Development Institute (Anna Locke, Nicola Cantore and Jodie Keane)The objective of this report was to assess the implications of further reform of the EU sugar regime on Afro-Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) and Least Developed Countries (LDC). To do this, the outlook for the EU sugar market was modelled under a range of scenarios and the viability of the sugar industries in LDC/ACP countries that currently rely, to a greater or lesser extent, on sales to the EU market was assessed. The report then draws on this analysis to highlight potential impacts on poverty and livelihoods in affected countries and discusses possible transitional assistance measures to mitigate negative impacts. -
"The new policy space", chapter in "Agribusiness for Africa's Prosperity"
Torben M. Roepstorff, Anthony M. Hawkins, Dirk Willem te Velde and Nicola CantoreThis chapter outlines the new policy context and issues for facilitating private agribusiness development, in terms of transforming agriculture into agricultural industry. It places into context the ongoing policy debate and the rationale, issues and framework for promoting agribusiness development in Africa. This policy framework presents a menu of policy options for supporting private industry in overcoming binding constraints on agribusiness development. The key emphasis of the chapter is on stimulating private agribusiness development through selected policy instruments, strategies and institutional support.
