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CGIAR Research Program on Drylands Systems
The CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems is a global agricultural research partnership to realize the potential of dryland communities. - Document
Exploring the impact of farmer-led research supported by civil society organisations
2015This paper asks: What have been the impacts of farmer- or community-led (informal) processes of research and development in agriculture and natural resource management in terms of food security, ecological sustainability, economic empowerment, gender relations, local capacity to innovate and influence on formal agricultural research and development institutions?DocumentPriests, technicians and traders? The discursive politics of Brazil’s agricultural cooperation in Mozambique
Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015Questions such as whose interests drive Brazil into Africa, what development models are carried along and what is in them for African countries have been guiding research and debates about Brazil’s cooperation in Africa. This paper contributes to this emerging body of work by looking at the specific case of agricultural cooperation.DocumentMozambican elite in a Chinese rice ‘friendship’: an ethnographic study of the Xai-Xai irrigation scheme
Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015In April 2007, the Mozambican and the Chinese governments through the Provinces of Gaza and Hubei respectively set up an agreement for the establishment of a Chinese ‘friendship’ rice farm at the Lower Limpopo scheme (also known as Xai-Xai irrigation scheme). Among the main objectives of this partnership was agricultural technology transfer from Chinese to Mozambican farmers.DocumentChinese and Brazilian agricultural models in Mozambique. The case of the Chinese Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centre and of the Brazilian ProALIMENTOS programme
Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015China and Brazil have called increasing attention from the international community, especially in the field of development cooperation. In Africa, for instance, both countries have expanded their development activities and defined agriculture as one of the main sectors to boost mutual cooperation.DocumentChinese agricultural expertise support in Ethiopia: approaches, motives and perspectives
Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015The Government of Ethiopia’s (GoE’s) economic growth strategy, Agriculture Development Led Industrialization (ADLI, formulated in 1991), places very high priority on accelerating agricultural growth and achieving food security. Agriculture is also a main focus of the current GoE’s Growth and Transformation Plan, as was also the case for its predecessors.DocumentZimbabwe-Brazil cooperation through the More Food Africa programme
Future Agricultures Consortium, 2015The expanding footprint of BRICS countries in Africa, especially over the last 15 years, has remained a subject of intense public interest in academic, development and diplomatic circles. There is some understandable trepidation among traditional donors towards the BRICS approach, and their focus remains on China.DocumentEmerging seed markets: the role of Brazilian, Chinese and Indian seeds in African agriculture
Future Agricultures Consortium, 2014In recent years, three of the largest emerging powers, Brazil, China and India, have all brought about incredible agricultural revolutions and seeds have played a big part in that story. Nowadays, their seed markets are all within the world’s top ten in terms of value and their companies are eager to expand into new markets, particularly in Africa.DocumentSocial capital and the decision to adopt new technology among rice farmers in the Philippines
Philippine Journal of Development, 2010Conventional models predict that a rational farmer, given information of higher profits from a new technology relative to the old, would shift to the new technology. However, evidence abounds to the contrary.DocumentRural development & energy policy: lessons from agricultural mechanisation in South Asia
Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2011In terms of agricultural and rural mechanisation, a great deal has happened on the ground since the debates of the 1970s. The diversity of South Asia's mechanisation experiences can be used to help policy debates, concerning rural and agricultural development.Pages