Organisation
Future Agricultures Consortium
Encouraging critical debate and policy dialogue on the future of agriculture in Africa
The Future Agricultures Consortium is a learning consortium which aims to encourage critical debate and policy dialogue on the future of agriculture in Africa. It is a partnership between research-based organisations in Africa and the UK.
The Consortium aims to elaborate the practical and policy challenges of establishing and sustaining pro-poor agricultural growth in Africa. FAC works across ten themes: policy processes, growth and social protection, commercialisations, science and technology, youth, pastoralism, climate change, land, China and Brazil in African agriculture, and gender and social difference.
The website hosts all of the research outputs of the Consortiun, and the blog features comment by FAC researchers.
Published Documents
- Agrarian Labour Relations in Zimbabwe after Over a Decade of Land and Agrarian Reform
- Chambati, W. / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013
- Walter Chambati April 2013 This paper begins highlights some key features that shape agrarian labour relations in Zimbabwe, illustrated through the setting of Goromonzi district. The new agrarian structure that forms the b...
- Making Sense of Gender, Climate Change and Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa
- C. Okali; L.O. Naess / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013
- Full title: Making Sense of Gender, Climate Change and Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: Creating Gender-Responsive Climate Adaptation Policy Christine Okali and Lars Otto Naess May 2013 Attention to gender and cli...
- Plantations, Contract Farming and Commercial Farming Areas in Africa: A Comparative Review
- Smalley, R. / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013
- There is uncertainty and no small controversy surrounding the potential impacts of commercial agricultural developments that are being proposed for sub-Saharan Africa by domestic governments and foreign investors. Much of the debate c...
- South-South Cooperation in Context: Perspectives from Africa
- Amanor, K. / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013
- FAC Working Paper 54 Kojo Sebastian Amanor This paper examines how liberal economic reforms that permeated and transformed economies during the 1980s and 1990s, both in the emerging BRICS powers themselves as well as in Af...
- Narratives of China-Africa Cooperation for Agricultural Development: New Paradigms?
- Buckley L. / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013
- FAC Working Paper 53 Lila Buckley Current debate is still largely centred on China?s engagement with African agriculture as either a threat or an opportunity. Such debate will not be resolved without a broader body of empi...
- Narratives of Brazil-Africa Cooperation for Agricultural Development: New Paradigms?
- Cabral L., Shankland A. / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013
- FAC Working Paper 51 Lídia Cabral and Alex Shankland This paper summarises the findings of a scoping study on Brazilian development cooperation in agriculture in Africa. The study comprised, in the first instance, a...
- Chinese and Brazilian Cooperation with African Agriculture: The Case of Mozambique
- Chichava S., Duran J., Cabral L., Shankland A., Buckley L., Lixia T. and Yue Z. / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013
- FAC Working Paper 49 Sérgio Chichava, Jimena Duran, Lídia Cabral, Alex Shankland, Lila Buckley, Tang Lixia and Zhang Yue The purpose of this paper is to provide an account of the policies, narratives, opera...
- Chinese and Brazilian Cooperation with African Agriculture: The Case of Ghana
- Amanor, K. / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013
- FAC Working Paper 52 Kojo Amanor This paper explores the differences in Brazilian and Chinese investments in Ghana. It examines the extent to which the framework of South-South cooperation illuminates or masks these changi...
- Chinese and Brazilian Cooperation with African Agriculture: The Case of Ethiopia
- Alemu, D. / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013
- FAC Working Paper 50 Dawit Alemu The increased importance of South-South cooperation in rural and agricultural development, and especially the increased role of BRICS countries, has been debated in relation to internationa...
- Chinese and Brazilian Cooperation with African Agriculture: The Case of Zimbabwe
- Mukwereza, L. / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013
- FAC Working Paper 48 by Langton Mukwereza This report describes the status of agricultural aid and cooperation programmes by Brazil and China in Zimbabwe from three perspectives: A specification for each pro...
