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1 January 2017
Published by: Elsevier
Trees on farms are often overlooked in agricultural and natural resource research and policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. This article addresses this gap using data from five countries: Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda.
1 November 2016
Published by: Institute of Development Studies and The Impact Initiative
Many international development research projects aim to influence policy and practice by providing rigorous evidence that impacts on real-life decisions. To ensure the evidence they are generating engages their target audiences, researchers need to interact with a range of different actors, processes and systems – and work through knowledge intermediaries.
1 November 2016
Many international development research projects aim to go far beyond influencing academic debate - they also seek to build relationships and networks, influence attitudes and behaviours, and inform policy and practice. This Learning Guide seeks to draw out some of the key lessons on successful approaches to engaging non-academic audiences for impactful research.
Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) is a five-year, DFID-funded, research programme consortium which aims to produce new evidence and policy insights into different pathways to agricultural commercialisation in Africa and their differential outcomes for local people and economies.
29 April 2016
Published by: IDS
Development theory has built on the historic experience of rich countries to identify a foundational role for agricultural growth in national economic development.
28 January 2016
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Throughout the 1990s, debates about human rights and development increasingly converged. With a renewed focus on poverty reduction,...
28 January 2016
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The findings of livelihoods research conducted in East Africa and Malawi demonstrate that the role of agriculture in contributing to...
8 January 2016
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Cash transfers are an increasingly important component of social protection systems in most countries. Usually, cash transfers are...
8 January 2016
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Policymaking on development in Malawi has long taken place in a heavily government, NGO and donor‐run system. Policymakers are...
8 January 2016
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This article demonstrates the politics of the policy processes of adaptation using the case of crop diversification. Competing...