Mdee, A orcid.org/0000-0002-8260-1840, Ofori, A orcid.org/0000-0002-0912-067X, Chasukwa, M et al. (1 more author) (2021) Neither sustainable nor inclusive: a political economy of agricultural policy and livelihoods in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia. Journal of Peasant Studies, 48 (6). pp. 1260-1283. ISSN 0306-6150
Abstract
The food crisis of 2007/8, alongside rapid population growth, and the uncertainties of climate change propelled African agricultural transformation back into the development mainstream. New narratives of ‘climate-smart agriculture’ and ‘sustainable intensification’ underlie this contemporary transformation. We present a political economy analysis of agricultural policy and livelihoods in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia, and use this to assess the challenge of achieving ‘sustainable and inclusive intensification’. We find little evidence that agricultural institutions have the capacity to deliver sustainable intensification in agriculture, or that agricultural policy drives changes in agricultural livelihoods that will make them either more sustainable or inclusive.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Keywords: | Agriculture, sustainable intensification, political economy, inclusive agricultural livelihoods, gender, youth |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Jan 2020 16:39 |
Last Modified: | 30 May 2023 22:33 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/03066150.2019.1708724 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:155253 |