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Secretariat for the Knowledge Platform on Development Policies
07 May 2025The African Studies Centre (ASC), the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS/EUR) and globalization think tank The Broker are excited to announce that they will be hosting the Secretariat fo...
read moreRural non-farm business in Africa: where are the jobs?
Paula Nagler , Wim Naudé | 31 March 2025Although governments and development agencies see farming as an important engine for job creation, rural non-farm businesses do not seem to generate enough work.
read moreGoverning the land rush in Africa
George C. Schoneveld | March 20, 2025The rush for African farmland has created new opportunities for political and customary institutions to extract rents from hitherto poorly monetized land resources. This has facilitated the formation of new alliances shaped around global capital....
read moreBe careful, BRICS Development Bank
Yu Chen | 02 July 2025Will the BRICS Development Bank’s constructive capacities overcome its destructive ones? The world is watching.
read moreFrom trickle-down to bubble-up
David Woodward | 23 May 2025Economic policy should focus on poverty reduction rather than on growth and should start in rural areas. First of two blog posts by David Woodward.
read moreEnding hunger within a generation
Evert-jan Quak | May 07, 2025Halving extreme poverty and hunger is the aim of Millennium Development Goal one. Although this goal is in reach, feeding a growing world population with good quality food remains a major challenge. Especially if you take into account climate chan...
read moreBuilding resilient and inclusive food markets
Evert-jan Quak | April 17, 2025To achieve maximum impact on food and nutrition security, knowledge and research policy should focus on local agriculture and food sectors. This means including small-scale farmers in regional food chains as well as making investments in the food...
read moreUntangling the myth of the global land rush
Annelies Zoomers, Evert-jan Quak | April 01, 2025The global land rush has not lifted small-scale farmers out of poverty, nor has it increased agricultural productivity and food security. Speculative land acquisitions often leave fertile land unused, and deprive local communities of vital resources.
read moreDevelopment strategies start with small-scale farming
Evert-jan Quak | 01 April 2025The final report of the Tracking Development project concludes that successful development strategies focus on small-scale farmers and give them and small entrepreneurs the freedom and protection to build on a future rather than on industrialisation.
read moreSustainable drinking water and sanitation
Margriet Samwel-Mantingh | 20 March 2025Sustainable development goals should pay more attention to sanitation, gender and rural areas.
read moreHow to plant potatoes in Uganda
John Muhimbise | 20 March 2025The right approach to solve food insecurity is a holistic approach, because otherwise you are likely to end up with large quantities of food lying around and rotting in the villages.
read moreNo hierarchy, equal access
Sylvia Kay | 20 March 2025New initiatives based on horizontally structured partnerships for rural development are more equal forms of rural development than traditional PPPs.
read moreUnpacking the linkages between agriculture and the extractive sector
Isabelle Ramdoo | 19 March 2025Mining companies can contribute to the development of rural communities by encouraging and supporting local farmers to develop more productive activities, beyond their subsistence activities.
read moreRural governance that works
John Coonrod | 19 March 2025Private sector and value-chain development will not contribute to poverty reduction without accountable, effective, inclusive rural governance. Economic development yes, poverty reduction no.
read moreFarming as a business
Bob van der Bijl | 18 March 2025Netherlands-African Business Council (NABC) is activating the Dutch private sector for market development and knowledge transfer to local farmers in Africa.
read moreEmployment is the key to food security
Kees Blokland | 12 March 2025Many small-scale farmers look for opportunities out of agriculture. The only way by doing this without increasing their food insecurity is rural employment. Farmer organisations can help, to spur up specialisation.
read moreStrong membership organizations are necessary to fight inequality
Jur Schuurman | 22 February 2025The inequality debate should try to find answers to two questions: the issue of definition and measurement, and the means by which to reduce inequality.
read moreEthiopia leads the way
Tagel Gebrehiwot | 21 February 2025Research showed that food security intervention in Ethiopia succeeds in improving food security and reducing poverty in rural areas. Preconditions for success include households' asset ownership and improving alternative sources of income.
read morePrioritising Water
February 06, 2025The key areas to prioritize in the UN’s Post-2015 development agenda will soon be determined in a worldwide consultation process coordinated by the UN. Feeding into this process, The Broker brings together international experts to pool their knowl...
read moreBreng water en voedselzekerheid bijeen
Bart Schultz | 09 November 2024Ik zie inderdaad het nut in van een kennisplatform dat zich richt op water en ontwikkelinghulp. Mijn verhaal heeft betrekking op waterbeheer en bescherming tegen overstromingen. Niet op drinkwatervoorziening en afvalwater behandeling.Zo’n 6000 jaa...
read moreG20 and rural poverty
Evert-jan Quak | 24 June 2025The official presentation in the Netherlands of the Rural Poverty Report 2011 of the IFAD last week at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague coincided with the findings of the G20 agricultural ministers meeting to establ...
read moreFood Security blog
June 15, 2025Editor Evert-jan Quak comments and reflects on new research, publications, blog posts, conferences and current affairs in the field of food security.
read moreNature pays, but who pays for nature?
Erwin Bulte | May 29, 2025Many western politicians are fond of giving public money to farmers to grow more food. A relatively recent phenomenon is to pay farmers to not produce food – or, more accurately, to pay them to produce nature. In Europe we spend billions of euros...
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