Institute of Development Studies

Food and Agriculture

Our research and advisory work on Food and Agriculture covers a number of issues. These include: land rights, livelihood and food insecurity, and linkages between fair trade producers and the mainstream supermarkets.

The Future Agricultures Consortium, a major research programme hosted by IDS, is looking at the interaction between agricultural growth and social protection.

Many of the projects within the Food and Agriculture theme focus on the causes of extreme poverty and its particular effects in the rural context. This work also relates to the examination of famine and how in the technologically advanced twenty-first century it still persists.

Related Projects

• Accelerating Progress in Reducing Hunger and Undernutrition - This programme will focus on how agriculture can deliver better nutrition outcomes by developing evidence-based policy options and tools for businesses, governments, NGOs and donors. (Ongoing)
• Changing Livelihoods in Darfur Since 2005 - Assessing current livelihood strategies and options available to vulnerable communities living in Darfur. (Ongoing)
• Ending Famine in the 21st Century - IDS is coordinating a programme of work based on the belief that global eradication of famine is achievable in the foreseeable future. The ultimate objective of this policy-oriented research is to contribute to a new policy agenda for famine prevention. (2001 - 2003)
• Home Grown School Feeding programme - A new initiative that will support government action to deliver cost effective school feeding programmes sourced from local farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. (Ongoing)
• Strengthen Emergency Needs Assessment Capacity (SENAC) - The SENAC Advisory Group provides guidance on the research being undertaken in key areas related to emergency needs assessments, and advises on coordination with related efforts elsewhere. (2005 - 2006)

Food and Agriculture People

Stephen Devereux

Research Fellow

Team

Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction

CV

CV (PDF)

E-mail

s.devereux@ids.ac.uk

Tel

+44 (0)1273 915760

Administrator

Deborah Shenton (d.shenton@ids.ac.uk)




Martin Greeley

Research Fellow

Team

Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction

CV

CV (PDF)

E-mail

M.Greeley@ids.ac.uk

Tel

+44 (0)1273 915749

Administrator

Deborah Shenton (d.shenton@ids.ac.uk)




Tamahi Kato

DPhil Student

Team

Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction

CV

CV

E-mail

t.kato@ids.ac.uk

Supervisors

Christophe Béné c.bene@ids.ac.uk
Martin Greeley M.Greeley@ids.ac.uk





Jennifer Leavy

Research Officer

Team

Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction

E-mail

J.Leavy@ids.ac.uk

Tel

+44 (0)1273 915755




Nicholas Nisbett

Research Fellow

Team

Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction

E-mail

n.c.nisbett@ids.ac.uk

Tel

+44 (0)1273 915839

Administrator

Leah Plati (L.Plati@ids.ac.uk)




Rachel Sabates-Wheeler (on leave)

Research Fellow, Director of the Centre for Social Protection

Team

Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction

CV

CV (PDF)

E-mail

R.Sabates-Wheeler@ids.ac.uk

Tel

+44 (0)1273 915759

Administrator

Deborah Shenton (d.shenton@ids.ac.uk)




Dolf te Lintelo

Research Fellow

Team

Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction

CV

CV (PDF)

E-mail

d.telintelo@ids.ac.uk

Tel

+44 (0)1273 915767

Administrator

Leah Plati (L.Plati@ids.ac.uk)

Food and Agriculture Publications

• Sumberg, J., R. Irving, E. Adams, and J. Thompson (2012) 'Success making and success stories: agronomic research in the spottlight' in Sumberg J and J. Thompson (eds), Contested Agronomy: Agricultural Research in a Changing World, London: Earthscan
• Sumberg, J. and Sabates-Wheeler, R. (2011) 'Linking Agricultural Development to School Feeding in Sub-Saharan Africa: Theoretical Perspectives', Food Policy 36.3:341-349
• Government Office for Science (2011) 'Food System Scenarios and Modelling', Foresight Project Global Food and Farming Futures Synthesis Report C4 , London: Government Office for Science
• Foresight (2011) 'The Future of Food and Farming: Final Project Report' , London: Government Office for Science
• Bonnerjee, A. and Koehler, G. (2010) 'Hunger: The True Growth Story in India' , New Delhi:
• Pretty, J. et al. (2010) 'The Top 100 Questions of Importance to the Future of Global Agriculture', International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 8.4:219-236, Earthscan
• Devereux, S. (2010) 'Book Review: ‘Famine: A Short History’, by Cormac O’Grada', Journal of Agrarian Change 10.4:594-596, London: Wiley
• Godfray, H.C.J., Beddington, J.R., Crute, I.R., Haddad, L., Lawrence, D., Muir, J.F., Nisbett, N., Robinson, S., Toulmin, C. and Whiteley, R. (2010) 'The Future of the Global Food System', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365.1554:2769-77, London: Royal Society Publishing
• Sumberg, J. (2009) 'Re-framing the Great Food Debate: The Case for Sustainable Food' , London: The New Economics Foundation
• Thompson, J and Scoones, I (2009) 'Addressing the Dynamics of Agri-Food Systems: An Emerging Agenda for Social Science Research', Environmental Science and Policy 12:386-397, Elsevier
• Glover, D. (2008) 'Made by Monsanto: the Corporate Shaping of GM Crops as a Technology for the Poor', STEPS Working Paper 11, Brighton: STEPS Centre
• Sumberg, J. (2006) 'Long Row to Hoe: Family Farming and Rural Poverty in Developing Countries' , London: The New Economics Foundation
• Erenstein, O., Sumberg, J., Oswald, A., Levasseur, V. and Koré, H. (2006) 'What future for integrated rice–vegetable production systems in West African lowlands? ', Agricultural Systems 88:376-394
• Devereux, S. (2006) The New Famines: Why Famines Persist in an Era of Globalization, Brighton: IDS
• Scoones, I., deGrassi, A., Devereux, S. and Haddad, L. (2005) 'New Directions for African Agriculture', IDS Bulletin 36.2, Brighton: IDS
• Devereux, S. et al. (2004) 'Improving the Analysis of Food Insecurity. Food Insecurity Measurement, Livelihoods Approaches and Policy: Applications in FIVIMS', Human Security and Development, Development Reader , University of South Africa
• Loevinsohn, M., and Gillespie, S. (2003) 'HIV/AIDS, Food Security and Rural Livelihoods: Understanding and Responding', RENEWAL Working Paper no. 2 / IFPRI Discussion Paper no. 157
• Loevinsohn, M., Berdegué, J., and Guijt, I. (2002) 'Deepening the basis of rural resource management: learning processes and decision support', Agricultural Systems 1.73:3-22
• te Lintelo, D. and Marshall, F. (2001) 'A methodology for assessing the social and economic implications of pollution effects on urban and peri-urban agriculture: a case study from India', Urban Agriculture Magazine 5, Leusden: RUAF
• te Lintelo, D., Marshall, F. and Bhupal, D.S. (2001) 'Urban Food: The Role of Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in India: A Case Study of Delhi', Food, Nutrition and Agriculture 29:4-13, Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations