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PROF Carlos Oya's Outputs (5)

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