Publications

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DEGRP-funded research projects produce a range of publications and multimedia content communicating their research, including journal articles, policy briefs, research reports, blogs and video. The DEGRP programme itself also produces ‘overview’ publications providing context to and analysis of particular themes that emerge within the research.

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Farmer-led irrigation development and investment strategies for food security, growth and employment in Africa

Policy brief | 2018 | Agriculture

Agriculture, Diversification, and Gender in Rural Africa

Book | 2018 | Agriculture

Editor: Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Fred Mawunyo Dzanku, Aida Cuthbert Isinika

Why merely owning land isn’t enough to empower Africa’s women farmers

Blog | 2018 |

Author: Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt

Economic growth, rural assets and prosperity: exploring the implications of a 20-year record of asset growth in Tanzania

Journal article | 2018 | Agriculture

Author: Christine Noe, Dan Brockington, Moses Mnzava, Olivia Howland, Vesa-Matti Loiske

Tracing Improving Livelihoods in Rural Africa Using Local Measures of Wealth: A Case Study from Central Tanzania, 1991–2016

Journal article | 2018 | Agriculture

Author: Dan Brockington, Joseph Mduma, Olivia Howland, Wilhlem Ostberg

A stable and inclusive financial sector for low-income countries

Brief | 2018 | Finance

Author: Caroline Cassidy, Dirk Willem te Velde

Chinese investment and small-scale commodity producers in Africa

Brief | 2018 | China-Africa

Author: Linda Calabrese, Xiaoxue Weng

Capital flows and financial sector development in low-income countries

Report | 2018 | Finance

Author: Judith Tyson, Thorsten Beck

Basel standards and developing countries: A difficult relationship

Blog | 2018 | Finance

Author: Emily Jones, Peter Knaack, Thorsten Beck

Mind the Gap: Making Basel Standards Work for Developing Countries

Policy brief | 2018 | Finance

Author: Emily Jones, Peter Knaack, Thorsten Beck

Room to Manoeuvre: How Developing Countries Can Tailor Basel Standard

Policy brief | 2018 | Finance

Author: Emily Jones, Peter Knaack, Thorsten Beck

When is aid destabilizing? Analysing profiles of aid flows in four low income countries

Working paper | 2017 | Finance

Author: Kilama Eric Gabin, Matthieu Boussichas, Patrick Guillaumont

Size isn’t everything: narratives of scale and viability in a Tanzanian irrigation scheme

Journal article | 2017 | Agriculture

Author: Elizabeth Harrison

Successful small-scale irrigation or environmental destruction? The political ecology of competing claims on water in the Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania

Journal article | 2017 | Agriculture

Author: Anna Mdee, Elizabeth Harrison

The Limits of Globalizing Basel Banking Standards

Journal article | 2017 | Finance

Author: Alexandra O. Zeitz, Emily Jones

Saving trees or improving lives? Tackling illegal logging in Zambia’s forests

Blog | 2017 | China-Africa

Author: Davison Gumbo, Paolo Cerutti, Penias Banda, Simon Lim, Xiaoxue Weng

Cotton at a crossroads: making cotton policies work for smallholder farmers in Zambia

Blog | 2017 | China-Africa

Author: Bill Vorley, Emma Blackmore, Simon Lim, Stephen Kabwe, Xiaoxue Weng

Explaining rice yields and yield gaps in Central Luzon, Philippines: An application of stochastic frontier analysis and crop modelling

Journal article | 2017 | Agriculture

Author: Alice G. Laborte, João Vasco Silva, Martin K. van Ittersum, Pytrik Reidsma

Review of yield gap explaining factors and opportunities for alternative data collection approaches

Journal article | 2017 | Agriculture

Author: Eskender Beza, João Vasco Silva, Lammert Kooistra, Pytrik Reidsma

Training women for management in the Bangladesh ready-made garment sector

Blog | 2017 | Innovation

Author: Chris Woodruff

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A stable and inclusive financial sector for low-income countries

Brief

Chinese investment and small-scale commodity producers in Africa

Brief

Capital flows and financial sector development in low-income countries

Report

Integrating health care and industrialisation in East Africa

Impact case study

Raising agricultural productivity in Uganda

Impact case study

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