China and Brazil in African Agriculture
The question of how Brazil, China and other 'rising powers' may change African agricultural development is critical and timely.
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The question of how Brazil, China and other 'rising powers' may change African agricultural development is critical and timely.
This proposed research responds to these concerns by using monetary and non-monetary measures to analyse child poverty dynamics, assessing overlaps and mismatches between those measures and investigating reasons for potential differences
Analysing how the relationship between populations living in contexts of violence and armed non-state actors controlling or contesting those areas results in forms of local governance and order, and how this affects people's livelihoods.
The objective of this research is to contribute to the understanding of one of the most important processes required for achieving sustained economic growth in emerging and developing countries: the process of product and export diversification.
The pace and significance of China's rise has implications for both traditional and emerging powers, as well as for developing countries. This plays a role for energy and climate change and for many other development issues. Rising Powers Network is a new network that will place China as the new 'shaper' of global development under the ESRC's Rising Power's Programme.
The programme of research centres on how the various institutions responsible for the production of security and the management of conflict in Sub-Saharan African societies do, could and should evolve in response to the presence of violent conflict.
This project is looking at tax collection, welfare distribution and environmental regulation to find out where transitional states should channel their limited resources in order to implement their policies.
A comparative study of the acquisition of branding capabilities in domestic and global value chains.
A seminar series to tackle the theoretical and policy challenge of making climate adaptation work for the poor; and to reposition the theory and discourse of climate adaptation at multiple scales, recognising the importance of science and knowledge towards pro-poor adaptation.
This collaborative project, which involves IDS and is led by the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) in South Africa, asks: to what extent is land redistribution in southern Africa achieving poverty reduction and livelihood improvement objectives?