Outputs (101)

Rural futures. How much should markets rule? (2014)
Preprint / Working Paper
Bernstein, H., & Oya, C. Rural futures. How much should markets rule?. London

The paper distinguishes different approaches to markets in, and affecting, rural sub-Saharan Africa, and present some associated policies, notably ‘market-friendly’ and ‘market-challenging’. We then propose a political economy approach as a more sati... Read More about Rural futures. How much should markets rule?.

Fairtrade, Employment and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia and Uganda (2014)
Report
Cramer, C., Johnston, D., Oya, C., & Sender, J. (2014). Fairtrade, Employment and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia and Uganda

Testing Claims about Large Land Deals in Africa: Findings from a Multi-Country Study (2014)
Journal Article
Cotula, L., Oya, C., Codjoe, E. A., Eid, A., Kakraba-Ampeh, M., Keeley, J., Lokaley Kidewa, A., Makwarimba, M., Michago Seide, W., Ole Nasha, W., Owusu Asare, R., & Rizzo, M. (2014). Testing Claims about Large Land Deals in Africa: Findings from a Multi-Country Study. The Journal of Development Studies, 50(7), 903-925. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2014.901501

Despite much research on large land deals for plantation agriculture in Africa, reliable data remain elusive, partly because of limited access to information and practical and methodological challenges. International debates are still shaped by mispe... Read More about Testing Claims about Large Land Deals in Africa: Findings from a Multi-Country Study.

How to do (and how not to do) fieldwork on Fair Trade and rural poverty (2014)
Journal Article
Cramer, C., Johnston, D., Mueller, B., Oya, C., & Sender, J. (2014). How to do (and how not to do) fieldwork on Fair Trade and rural poverty. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 35(1), 170-185. https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2014.873022

The Fair Trade, Employment and Poverty Reduction (FTEPR) project investigated poverty dynamics in rural Ethiopia and Uganda. When designing fieldwork to capture poor people often missing from standard surveys, several methodological challenges were i... Read More about How to do (and how not to do) fieldwork on Fair Trade and rural poverty.

Review of Morten Jerven Poor Numbers. How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It Ithaca / Londres, Cornell University Press, coll. « Cornell Studies in Political Economy », 2013 (2014)
Journal Article
Oya, C. (2014). Review of Morten Jerven Poor Numbers. How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It Ithaca / Londres, Cornell University Press, coll. « Cornell Studies in Political Economy », 2013. Politique africaine (Paris), 187-192. https://doi.org/10.3917/polaf.133.0177

Global Land Grabs: historical processes, theoretical and methodological implications and current trajectories (2013)
Journal Article
Edelman, M., Oya, C., & Borras, S. M. (2013). Global Land Grabs: historical processes, theoretical and methodological implications and current trajectories. Third World Quarterly, 34(9), 1517-1531. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2013.850190

Scholars, practitioners and activists generally agree that investor interest in land has climbed sharply, although they differ about what to call this phenomenon and how to analyse it. This introduction discusses several contested definitional, conce... Read More about Global Land Grabs: historical processes, theoretical and methodological implications and current trajectories.

The Land Rush and Classic Agrarian Questions of Capital and Labour: a systematic scoping review of the socioeconomic impact of land grabs in Africa (2013)
Journal Article
Oya, C. (2013). The Land Rush and Classic Agrarian Questions of Capital and Labour: a systematic scoping review of the socioeconomic impact of land grabs in Africa. Third World Quarterly, 34(9), 1532-1557. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2013.843855

This paper has two main objectives. First, to address the problematic of the socioeconomic impact of land deals in sub-Saharan Africa by looking at what we know from the available literature so far, namely what has been claimed and how much research... Read More about The Land Rush and Classic Agrarian Questions of Capital and Labour: a systematic scoping review of the socioeconomic impact of land grabs in Africa.

Rural wage employment in Africa: methodological issues and emerging evidence (2013)
Journal Article
Oya, C. (2013). Rural wage employment in Africa: methodological issues and emerging evidence. Review of African political economy, 40(136), 251-273. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2013.794728

Growth Dynamics, Structural Change and Productive Employment to Reduce Poverty and Income Inequality. Analysis and Policy Recommendations. (2013)
Report
Oya, C., McKinley, T., & Bargawi, H. (2013). Growth Dynamics, Structural Change and Productive Employment to Reduce Poverty and Income Inequality. Analysis and Policy Recommendations

Les politiques agricoles 2000-2012 : entre volontarisme et incohérence [Agricultural policies 2000-2012: between voluntarism and incoherence] (2013)
Book Chapter
Oya, C., & Ba, C. (2013). Les politiques agricoles 2000-2012 : entre volontarisme et incohérence [Agricultural policies 2000-2012: between voluntarism and incoherence]. In M. Diop (Ed.), Sénégal 2000-2012. Les institutions et politiques publiques à l’épreuve d’une gouvernance libérale. Karthala