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Theme: Policies and Institutions that Work Project name: Policies that Work for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Regeneration Dates / Duration: 1996-2001, completed
Introduction: This collaborative research project looked at ways to improve the understanding, formulation, and implementation of policies and policy processes for sustainable agriculture and rural regeneration. There are enough examples worldwide to suggest that agriculture can work to the benefit of sustainability and people. The concept of 'sustainable' agriculture is not confined within the farm boundary, but has strong links (and a potential to be a dynamic force within) to a wider rural economy. It not only contributes to greater agricultural production, but also to environmental regeneration and local economic development. In 1996 IIED initiated a multi-country, collaborative research project entitled Policies that Work for Sustainable Agriculture and Regenerated Rural Economies (PTW). The PTW project aimed to identify policies and policy processes that support sustainable agriculture and rural regeneration. It examined a cross-section of case studies across a range of agroecological and socioeconomic environments, and commissioned a number of ‘think pieces’ to make the connections between local policy and transnational economic, trade, and business institutions. The research started by identifying ‘islands of success’ of sustainable agriculture and then observing the different forces, power dynamics, policies, and institutions that impacted on those successes. The series describes policy contexts and instruments that can promote sustainable agriculture and social change. This has been done in high, medium, and low-income countries both in South and North. The summary report, and 11 country and theme studies reports, draw on the various findings to build up a picture of the policy environment for sustainable agriculture at the levels of local community, local government, national government, the private sector, and global institutions. These reports illustrate the amazing complexity, diversity and energy of the rural sector in these regions, as well as providing detailed background information on them, useful to researchers, academics, policy makers, donors and students alike. Objectives:
Key findings/ progress to date: Whether rural livelihoods gain or lose resilience from the rapid changes in global agriculture will depend on conscious national and global policy-making built around an appreciation of the multiple functions of family farms. The project recommends that policy processes build upon the following:
Key Publications: Sustaining Agriculture: Policy, Governance, and the Future of Family-based Farming Personalising Development: Policies, Process and Institutions for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods (Pakistan case study) In the Hands of the People: An Indian case of watershed development Public Policies and Processes in the Bolivian Andes (Extended summary of Políticas Públicas y Agricultura Campesina, English) Pour le Developpement d’une Agriculture Régénératrice au Sénégal Public Policies and Participation for Agricultural Sustainability: Findings from the Case Study in Reboucas, Brazil Policies for Agricultural Sustainability in Kenya Policies for Agricultural Sustainability in Northern Thailand View from South Africa, The Thaan Vuzha Nilam Tharisu: The Land Without a Farmer Becomes Barren Políticas Públicas y Agricultura Campesina: Encuentros e Desencuentros (Bolivia case study) Capitals and Capabilities: A Framwork for Analysing Peasant Viability, Rural Livelihoods and Poverty in the Andes The Other Side of the Mountain: The Impact of Europe's Common Agricultural Policy on Sustainable Agriculture in the South L'autre coté de la Montagne, De. L'impact de la Politique Agricole Commune Européene sur le Sud Trivial Pursuits? Reconciling sustainable rural development and the global economic institutions Other publications related to this work: The Rocky Road Towards Sustainable Agriculture: Land Reform in the Free State, South Africa Order from chaos? Making local data relevant for policy audiences Links to partners: Assessoria e Serviços a Projetos em Agricultura Alternativa Multiple Cropping Center(MCC), Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University IUCN Pakistan Programme Khanya: Managing Rural Change Project supported by: Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DANIDA) Kreditanstalt für Wiederafbau (KfW, Germany, Senegal case study) Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) Contact: Bill Vorley, IIED Copyright © 2005 International Institute for Environment and Development. |
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