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Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour (2021)
Journal Article
Pattenden, J., Campling, L., Castañón Ballivián, E., Gras, C., Lerche, J., O'Laughlin, B., Oya, C., Pérez Niño, H., & Sinha, S. (2021). Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour. Journal of Agrarian Change, 21(3), 582-590. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12440

Covid-19 generated a crisis in capitalism, but not of capitalism. Capitalism reproduces itself in crisis and in ways that have significant but uneven impacts on the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour. This article explores prelimi... Read More about Introduction: Covid‐19 and the conditions and struggles of agrarian classes of labour.

The Household Responsibility System, Karl Marx’s Theory of Property and Antony M. Honoré’s Concept of Ownership (2019)
Journal Article
Meng, G. (2019). The Household Responsibility System, Karl Marx’s Theory of Property and Antony M. Honoré’s Concept of Ownership. Science & society (New York, N.Y. 1936), 83(3), 300-326. https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2019.83.3.300

The Household Responsibility System (HRS) has improved agricultural productivity and promoted economic growth and thus relieved poverty in the rural population of China. However, the prevailing assumptions about its nature are that it was the result... Read More about The Household Responsibility System, Karl Marx’s Theory of Property and Antony M. Honoré’s Concept of Ownership.

Water Management by Farmers (2018)
Book Chapter
Smith, L. Water Management by Farmers. In T. Allan, B. Bromwich, T. Colman, & M. Keulertz (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Food, Water and Society. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190669799.013.61

Analyzing the public policy challenge of multifunctional land use, for which farmers are required to be food producers, water resource managers and environmental stewards, it is argued that a location-sensitive policy mix is required, consisting of a... Read More about Water Management by Farmers.

Contemporary China’s Rural Landownership with Reference to Antony M. Honoré’s Concept of Ownership (2016)
Journal Article
Meng, G. (2016). Contemporary China’s Rural Landownership with Reference to Antony M. Honoré’s Concept of Ownership. Journal of Economic Issues, 50(3), 667-694. https://doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2016.1210377

This article analyses the property rights that Chinese peasants have under the present Household Responsibility System (HRS) using Antony M. Honoré’s work on ownership, especially his analysis of eleven standard incidents of the full liberal concept... Read More about Contemporary China’s Rural Landownership with Reference to Antony M. Honoré’s Concept of Ownership.

Building cooperative capacity: the specialty coffee sector in Nicaragua (2014)
Journal Article
Poole, N., & Donovan, J. Building cooperative capacity: the specialty coffee sector in Nicaragua. Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies, 4(2), 133-156. https://doi.org/10.1108/JADEE-01-2013-0002

Purpose – Within the context of widespread donor support for producer organizations, the purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of interventions aimed at rescuing a failed cooperative and improving performance and business linkages between gr... Read More about Building cooperative capacity: the specialty coffee sector in Nicaragua.

Agricultural labour productivity, food prices and sustainable development impacts and indicators (2013)
Journal Article
Dorward, A. (2013). Agricultural labour productivity, food prices and sustainable development impacts and indicators. Food Policy, 39, 40-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2012.12.003

In the last few years high and unstable food and agricultural commodity prices and concerns about population growth, increasing per capita food demands and environmental constraints have pushed agriculture and food production up national and internat... Read More about Agricultural labour productivity, food prices and sustainable development impacts and indicators.

The short and medium term impacts of rises in staple food prices (2012)
Journal Article
Dorward, A. (2012). The short and medium term impacts of rises in staple food prices. Food Security, 44(4), 633-645. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-012-0210-3

There is widespread concern about the impact of recent price rises on the welfare and food security of poor people and about future impacts of high prices. Responses to these concerns are, however, sometimes clouded by lack of clarity about the natu... Read More about The short and medium term impacts of rises in staple food prices.

Introduction to Why Cultivate? Anthropological and Archaeological approaches to Foraging-Farming Transitions in SE Asia (2011)
Book Chapter
Janowski, M., & Barker, G. (2011). Introduction to Why Cultivate? Anthropological and Archaeological approaches to Foraging-Farming Transitions in SE Asia. In M. Janowski, & G. Barker (Eds.), Why Cultivate? Understandings of past and present adoption, abandonment, and commitment to agriculture in Southeast Asia. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

Starter pack in rural development strategies (2005)
Book Chapter
Dorward, A., & Kydd, J. (2005). Starter pack in rural development strategies. In S. Levy (Ed.), Starter packs : a strategy to fight hunger in developing countries? lessons from the Malawi experience 1998-2003. CABI

A Policy Agenda for Pro-Poor Agricultural Growth (2004)
Journal Article
Dorward, A., Kydd, J., Morrison, J., & Urey, I. (2004). A Policy Agenda for Pro-Poor Agricultural Growth. World Development, 32(1), 73-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2003.06.012

Sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South Asia are likely to hold large numbers of very poor rural people into the foreseeable future. Although both history and theory suggest a pre-eminent role for agricultural growth in poverty reduction in poor agrari... Read More about A Policy Agenda for Pro-Poor Agricultural Growth.

Institutional Dimensions of Trade Liberalisation and Poverty (2003)
Book Chapter
Kydd, J., Dorward, A., & Poulton, C. (2003). Institutional Dimensions of Trade Liberalisation and Poverty. In J. Brooks (Ed.), Agricultural Trade and Poverty: Making Policy Analysis Count. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

A New Institutional Economics Perspective on Current Policy Debates (1998)
Book Chapter
Poulton, C., Dorward, A., Kydd, J., Poole, N., & Smith, L. (1998). A New Institutional Economics Perspective on Current Policy Debates. In A. Dorward, J. Kydd, & C. Poulton (Eds.), Smallholder cash crop production under market liberalisation: a new institutional economics perspective. CABI