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Agrarian development, livelihoods, land policy and food security
Photo: Panos Pictures
Sierra Leone.
Women voting near Freetown

Other experience of Policy Practice Principals working on this topic:


Deborah Bryceson, Serving on research programme advisory committee ‘African Food Crisis – Relevance of Asian Models (AFRINT)’ a programme involving research teams in several African countries coordinated by Lund University, Sweden - 2001 - 2006,

Deborah Bryceson, Serving on research programme advisory committee ‘Moral Economy of African Rural Societies’ research programme, Japanese inter-university collaborative research programme coordinated by Kinki University, Japan - 2004 - 2006,

Deborah Bryceson, Serving on research programme advisory committee for ‘Linking Livelihoods, Natural Resource Governance and Environmental Sustainability in East and Southern Africa’ research programme, Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden - 2004 - 2006,

Naresh Saxena, Member, DFID Watershed Mission, Orissa - 2005,
  • Paper: Land Management in India’ for World Bank & DFID, 2004

Deborah Bryceson, Consultant to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DGIS and Ceres, ‘DGIS Agricultural Project Review related to Natural Resource Management, Water Management and Agriculture in light of the Sector-Wide Approach,’ - 2004,
  • Paper: ‘The Sector Wide Approach in Rural Development: Finding Ways to Alleviate Poverty and Promote Ecological Sustainability’, van Dijk, H., D. Bryceson, P. Howard, J. Oorthuizen and A. Zoomers CERES/DGIS, The Hague, April 2004.

Gareth Williams, Review of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers and DFID Country Assistance Plans from a food security perspective (with OPM) - 2003,

Alex Duncan, Gareth Williams, Organisation of the European Forum on Rural Development Cooperation, a conference for 200 representatives of the European Commission, EU Member States, multilateral organisations, NGOs and developing country governments, Montpellier, France, 2002 (with OPM) - 2002,

Deborah Bryceson, Published book entitled 'Disappearing Peasantries: Rural Labour in Africa, Asia and Latin America', London, IT Publications - 2001,

Alex Duncan, Gareth Williams, Provided advice to DFID team preparing strategy for future support to rural livelihoods research (with OPM) - 2001,
  • Paper: The Contribution of Knowledge and Research to DFID’s Strategy to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals,’ Discussion Brief 1
  • Paper: Global change processes driving the rural livelihoods research agenda,’ Discussion Brief 2

Naresh Saxena, NRM Specialist for a DFID/IFAD Mission on Orissa - 2001,

Alex Duncan, Gareth Williams, Assistance to European Commission in Brussels and selected Delegations in rural and agricultural policy development and implementation for developing countries. Support to EC on the preparation of policy papers on rural development and on food security (with OPM) - 2001,