The beef industry in southern Africa has been a stalwart of economic development, but new conditions of trade, market access and disease dynamics, particularly of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), mean a…
Botswana’s foot-and-mouth disease and beef trade policy
Market access for livestock commodities: foot-and-mouth disease as a key constraint to market access – Republic of South Africa
The beef industry in southern Africa has been a stalwart of economic development, but new conditions of trade, market access and disease dynamics, particularly of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), mean a…
Les défis de l’industrie bovine en Afrique australe
(English version / en anglais) L’industrie bovine sud-africaine a été l’un des fers de lance du développement économique du pays, mais les nouvelles conditions du commerce et de l’accès aux…
Challenges for the beef industry in southern Africa
(French version / en français) The beef industry in southern Africa has been a stalwart of economic development, but new conditions of trade, market access and disease dynamics, particularly of…
Made by Monsanto: the Corporate Shaping of GM Crops as a Technology for the Poor
This working paper by Dominic Glover is about the social construction and social shaping of agricultural biotechnology in relation to international development. Genetically modified (GM, transgenic) crops have come to…
Agri-food System Dynamics for Sustainability
In an era of rapid change, growing risk and uncertainty, there are many challenges to the sustainability of agricultural policy and practice in the developing world. Concerns about chronic hunger,…
Agri-Food System Dynamics: pathways to sustainability in an era of uncertainty
The ‘modernist’ project that has come to dominate food and agricultural policy has failed to provide sustainable outcomes for many poor people in developing countries. Countering orthodox notions, this paper makes a case for a deeper understanding of diverse ‘rural worlds’ in an era of short-terms shocks and long-terms stresses like climate change.