Philip Woodhouse
Biographic Data
| ID | 101950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Woodhouse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Woodhouse |
| SIGNATURE | WOODHOUSE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 322 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Formal and informal contract farming in Mozambique: Socially embedded relations of agricultural intensification
This paper explores the role of contract farming arrangements in agricultural intensification in sub‐Saharan Africa, combining secondary literature and original case material from Mozambique. The paper extends the scope of “contract farming” beyond the formal contracts between large companies and small‐scale producers to include less formal credit agreements between farmers and traders. It argues that such informal contract arrangements are evide…
Water Governance—An Historical Perspective on Current Debates
The Political Economy of Sugar in Southern Africa - Introduction
In this introductory paper we review historic and contemporary development of sugar cane \nproduction across the southern Africa. We argue that the region’s sugar industry provides a \nuseful lens through which to understand current dynamics of corporate capital and agricultural \nproduction in Africa. We identify three distinct elements of political-economic analysis: first, \nthe operation of logics of capital investment in different settings; …
Crisis and Differentiation among Small-Scale Sugar Cane Growers in Nkomazi, South Africa
Against a context of declining sugar output in South Africa as a whole, the sugar industry in the Nkomazi Municipality of Mpumalanga Province has increased its share of the South African market. It has achieved this over a period of significant change in ownership, with the transfer of at least 25 per cent of land growing sugar cane into black community ownership through South Africa's land reform programme. The industry now claims that the major…
African farmer-led irrigation development: Re-Framing Agricultural Policy and Investment
The past decade has witnessed an intensifying focus on the development of irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa. It follows a 20-year hiatus in the wake of disappointing irrigation performance during the 1970s and 1980s. Persistent low productivity in African agriculture and vulnerability of African food supplies to increasing instability in international commodity markets are driving pan-African agricultural investment initiatives, such as the Compre…
Contested Agronomy: Agricultural Research in a Changing World
Water, environmental security and sustainable rural development
Water, environmental security and sustainable rural development, edited by Murat Arsel and Max Spoor, Abingdon, Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods, 2010, xiv–284 pp., £85.50 (hardcover), IS
New investment, old challenges. Land deals and the water constraint in African agriculture
Foreign investment in agricultural land acquisition in sub-Saharan Africa has been viewed primarily as driven by a set of linked 'crises': in financial capital markets, in security of energy and food supply, and in global environmental governance. This paper argues that a focus on the 'buyers' of land risks overlooking the dynamics that operate on the side of the land 'sellers'. Accordingly, the first part of the paper argues that it is important…
Why agronomy in the developing world has become contentious
Reforming Land and Water Rights in South Africa
Redress of historical injustice in access to land provided a mobilizing force for the overthrow of the apartheid government in South Africa. Inequality of access to water resources marks South Africa's history even more profoundly than inequality of access to land. Yet in South Africa, post-apartheid legislative reform relating to land and water has followed largely separate, if parallel, paths. This article traces the development and current sta…
Forbidden But Not Suppressed: A 'Vernacular' Land Market in Svosve Communal Lands, Zimbabwe
This article examines the status of land tenure in Zimbabwe following the 'Fast Track' land reforms of 2000-3. It finds that post-reform land tenure remains strongly dualist, with land sales and rental prohibited on the land (about two thirds of the total) classified as 'A1' resettlement or 'communal areas', while tradeable leases apply to much of the remainder, classified as 'commercial land'. The article draws on fieldwork in Svosve Communal Ar…
Interpreting Land Markets in Africa
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Climate Change Resilience and Adaptation: Perspectives from a Century of Water Resources Development
The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the influential Stern Report both reinforce the warming of the earth's climate system. The alarming environmental, social, and economic consequences of this trend call for immediate action from individuals, institutions, and governments. This article identifies parallels between the problem of adaptive management presented by climate change and an earlier 'global wa…
Beyond Industrial Agriculture? Some Questions about Farm Size, Productivity and Sustainability
Although modern agriculture has increased food production faster than population growth in recent decades, there are concerns that existing models of 'industrial agriculture' are unsustainable due to long-run trends towards increased fossil energy costs. This has led to suggestions that food production in future will need to be based on smaller-scale and more labour-intensive farming systems. This paper examines political economy arguments that l…
Agricultural Research, Livelihoods and Poverty: Studies of Economic and Social Impacts in Six Countries - Edited by Michelle Adato and Ruth Meinzen-Dick
Technology, Environment and the Productivity Problem in African Agriculture: Comment on theWorld Development Report 2008
This paper is concerned with the need for a 'productivity revolution in smallholder farming' that the World Development Report 2008 (WDR08) identifies is required in sub-Saharan Africa. It reviews the technological options for such a productivity revolution in Africa, and how these are conditioned by the 'agriculture-based' model the WDR08 uses to characterize African economies. It argues that the model effects, firstly, a disconnection of agricu…
Family farm sustainability in southern Brazil: An application of agri-environmental indicators
Communal Tenure and Rural Poverty: Land Transactions in Svosve Communal Area, Zimbabwe
The idea of communal tenure has formed a key plank in the rural governance of Zimbabwe since independence, but its retention following the Fast Track land reforms of 2000-2002 perpetuates a distinction between 'commercial' land governed by a land market and 'communal' land on which market transactions are illegal. This article draws on recent research in Svosve Communal Area to examine the dynamics of land access and their implications for rural …
Revitalizing the Commons: Cultural and Educational Sites of Resistance and Affirmation ‐by C.A. Bowers
Right Target, Wrong Mechanism? Agricultural Modernization and Poverty Reduction in Uganda
African Enclosures: A Default Mode of Development
African Enclosures? The Social Dynamics of Wetlands in Drylands
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Telling Environmental Change Like It Is? Reflections on a Study in Sub-Saharan Africa
Technological change among peasants in Central Argentina
Drawing on a case-study from Central Argentina, this article suggests that researchers can be too cautious about introducing technologies of which farmers have no previous experience. In particular, it challenges the notion that the only technology appropriate to peasant conditions is that which is rooted in traditional ideas and culture. Under certain circumstances, externally supplied technologies may also be appropriate. Rather than focusing s…
Governance & local environmental management in Africa
Current policy prescriptions for environmental management in Africa emphasise devolution of resource management to local non‐government and community organisations. They challenge the long‐standing orthodoxy of environmental conservation based on land privatisation, and instead favour local institutions managing resources as common property. This challenge has been reinforced by arguements from a reappraisal of dryland ecology in Africa, and by e…
African Enclosures: A Default Mode of Development
New investment, old challenges. Land deals and the water constraint in African agriculture
Foreign investment in agricultural land acquisition in sub-Saharan Africa has been viewed primarily as driven by a set of linked 'crises': in financial capital markets, in security of energy and food supply, and in global environmental governance. This paper argues that a focus on the 'buyers' of land risks overlooking the dynamics that operate on the side of the land 'sellers'. Accordingly, the first part of the paper argues that it is important…
African farmer-led irrigation development: Re-Framing Agricultural Policy and Investment
The past decade has witnessed an intensifying focus on the development of irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa. It follows a 20-year hiatus in the wake of disappointing irrigation performance during the 1970s and 1980s. Persistent low productivity in African agriculture and vulnerability of African food supplies to increasing instability in international commodity markets are driving pan-African agricultural investment initiatives, such as the Compre…
Beyond Industrial Agriculture? Some Questions about Farm Size, Productivity and Sustainability
Although modern agriculture has increased food production faster than population growth in recent decades, there are concerns that existing models of 'industrial agriculture' are unsustainable due to long-run trends towards increased fossil energy costs. This has led to suggestions that food production in future will need to be based on smaller-scale and more labour-intensive farming systems. This paper examines political economy arguments that l…
Water Governance—An Historical Perspective on Current Debates
Interpreting Land Markets in Africa
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Political Economy of Sugar in Southern Africa - Introduction
In this introductory paper we review historic and contemporary development of sugar cane \nproduction across the southern Africa. We argue that the region’s sugar industry provides a \nuseful lens through which to understand current dynamics of corporate capital and agricultural \nproduction in Africa. We identify three distinct elements of political-economic analysis: first, \nthe operation of logics of capital investment in different settings; …
Why agronomy in the developing world has become contentious
Right Target, Wrong Mechanism? Agricultural Modernization and Poverty Reduction in Uganda
Telling Environmental Change Like It Is? Reflections on a Study in Sub-Saharan Africa
African Enclosures? The Social Dynamics of Wetlands in Drylands
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Forbidden But Not Suppressed: A 'Vernacular' Land Market in Svosve Communal Lands, Zimbabwe
This article examines the status of land tenure in Zimbabwe following the 'Fast Track' land reforms of 2000-3. It finds that post-reform land tenure remains strongly dualist, with land sales and rental prohibited on the land (about two thirds of the total) classified as 'A1' resettlement or 'communal areas', while tradeable leases apply to much of the remainder, classified as 'commercial land'. The article draws on fieldwork in Svosve Communal Ar…
Technology, Environment and the Productivity Problem in African Agriculture: Comment on theWorld Development Report 2008
This paper is concerned with the need for a 'productivity revolution in smallholder farming' that the World Development Report 2008 (WDR08) identifies is required in sub-Saharan Africa. It reviews the technological options for such a productivity revolution in Africa, and how these are conditioned by the 'agriculture-based' model the WDR08 uses to characterize African economies. It argues that the model effects, firstly, a disconnection of agricu…
Communal Tenure and Rural Poverty: Land Transactions in Svosve Communal Area, Zimbabwe
The idea of communal tenure has formed a key plank in the rural governance of Zimbabwe since independence, but its retention following the Fast Track land reforms of 2000-2002 perpetuates a distinction between 'commercial' land governed by a land market and 'communal' land on which market transactions are illegal. This article draws on recent research in Svosve Communal Area to examine the dynamics of land access and their implications for rural …
Governance & local environmental management in Africa
Current policy prescriptions for environmental management in Africa emphasise devolution of resource management to local non‐government and community organisations. They challenge the long‐standing orthodoxy of environmental conservation based on land privatisation, and instead favour local institutions managing resources as common property. This challenge has been reinforced by arguements from a reappraisal of dryland ecology in Africa, and by e…
Reforming Land and Water Rights in South Africa
Redress of historical injustice in access to land provided a mobilizing force for the overthrow of the apartheid government in South Africa. Inequality of access to water resources marks South Africa's history even more profoundly than inequality of access to land. Yet in South Africa, post-apartheid legislative reform relating to land and water has followed largely separate, if parallel, paths. This article traces the development and current sta…
Crisis and Differentiation among Small-Scale Sugar Cane Growers in Nkomazi, South Africa
Against a context of declining sugar output in South Africa as a whole, the sugar industry in the Nkomazi Municipality of Mpumalanga Province has increased its share of the South African market. It has achieved this over a period of significant change in ownership, with the transfer of at least 25 per cent of land growing sugar cane into black community ownership through South Africa's land reform programme. The industry now claims that the major…
After the Flood: Local Initiative in Using a New Wetland Resource in the Sourou Valley, Mali
From green revolution to food security in sub-Saharan Africa
From green revolution to food security in sub-Saharan Africa
Governance & local environmental management in Africa
Current policy prescriptions for environmental management in Africa emphasise devolution of resource management to local non‐government and community organisations. They challenge the long‐standing orthodoxy of environmental conservation based on land privatisation, and instead favour local institutions managing resources as common property. This challenge has been reinforced by arguements from a reappraisal of dryland ecology in Africa, and by e…
After the Flood: Local Initiative in Using a New Wetland Resource in the Sourou Valley, Mali
Technological change among peasants in Central Argentina
Drawing on a case-study from Central Argentina, this article suggests that researchers can be too cautious about introducing technologies of which farmers have no previous experience. In particular, it challenges the notion that the only technology appropriate to peasant conditions is that which is rooted in traditional ideas and culture. Under certain circumstances, externally supplied technologies may also be appropriate. Rather than focusing s…
Telling Environmental Change Like It Is? Reflections on a Study in Sub-Saharan Africa
African Enclosures: A Default Mode of Development
African Enclosures? The Social Dynamics of Wetlands in Drylands
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Right Target, Wrong Mechanism? Agricultural Modernization and Poverty Reduction in Uganda
Revitalizing the Commons: Cultural and Educational Sites of Resistance and Affirmation ‐by C.A. Bowers
Family farm sustainability in southern Brazil: An application of agri-environmental indicators
Communal Tenure and Rural Poverty: Land Transactions in Svosve Communal Area, Zimbabwe
The idea of communal tenure has formed a key plank in the rural governance of Zimbabwe since independence, but its retention following the Fast Track land reforms of 2000-2002 perpetuates a distinction between 'commercial' land governed by a land market and 'communal' land on which market transactions are illegal. This article draws on recent research in Svosve Communal Area to examine the dynamics of land access and their implications for rural …
Technology, Environment and the Productivity Problem in African Agriculture: Comment on theWorld Development Report 2008
This paper is concerned with the need for a 'productivity revolution in smallholder farming' that the World Development Report 2008 (WDR08) identifies is required in sub-Saharan Africa. It reviews the technological options for such a productivity revolution in Africa, and how these are conditioned by the 'agriculture-based' model the WDR08 uses to characterize African economies. It argues that the model effects, firstly, a disconnection of agricu…
Forbidden But Not Suppressed: A 'Vernacular' Land Market in Svosve Communal Lands, Zimbabwe
This article examines the status of land tenure in Zimbabwe following the 'Fast Track' land reforms of 2000-3. It finds that post-reform land tenure remains strongly dualist, with land sales and rental prohibited on the land (about two thirds of the total) classified as 'A1' resettlement or 'communal areas', while tradeable leases apply to much of the remainder, classified as 'commercial land'. The article draws on fieldwork in Svosve Communal Ar…
Interpreting Land Markets in Africa
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Climate Change Resilience and Adaptation: Perspectives from a Century of Water Resources Development
The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the influential Stern Report both reinforce the warming of the earth's climate system. The alarming environmental, social, and economic consequences of this trend call for immediate action from individuals, institutions, and governments. This article identifies parallels between the problem of adaptive management presented by climate change and an earlier 'global wa…
Beyond Industrial Agriculture? Some Questions about Farm Size, Productivity and Sustainability
Although modern agriculture has increased food production faster than population growth in recent decades, there are concerns that existing models of 'industrial agriculture' are unsustainable due to long-run trends towards increased fossil energy costs. This has led to suggestions that food production in future will need to be based on smaller-scale and more labour-intensive farming systems. This paper examines political economy arguments that l…
Agricultural Research, Livelihoods and Poverty: Studies of Economic and Social Impacts in Six Countries - Edited by Michelle Adato and Ruth Meinzen-Dick
Contested Agronomy: Agricultural Research in a Changing World
Water, environmental security and sustainable rural development
Water, environmental security and sustainable rural development, edited by Murat Arsel and Max Spoor, Abingdon, Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods, 2010, xiv–284 pp., £85.50 (hardcover), IS
New investment, old challenges. Land deals and the water constraint in African agriculture
Foreign investment in agricultural land acquisition in sub-Saharan Africa has been viewed primarily as driven by a set of linked 'crises': in financial capital markets, in security of energy and food supply, and in global environmental governance. This paper argues that a focus on the 'buyers' of land risks overlooking the dynamics that operate on the side of the land 'sellers'. Accordingly, the first part of the paper argues that it is important…
Why agronomy in the developing world has become contentious
Reforming Land and Water Rights in South Africa
Redress of historical injustice in access to land provided a mobilizing force for the overthrow of the apartheid government in South Africa. Inequality of access to water resources marks South Africa's history even more profoundly than inequality of access to land. Yet in South Africa, post-apartheid legislative reform relating to land and water has followed largely separate, if parallel, paths. This article traces the development and current sta…
Water Governance—An Historical Perspective on Current Debates
The Political Economy of Sugar in Southern Africa - Introduction
In this introductory paper we review historic and contemporary development of sugar cane \nproduction across the southern Africa. We argue that the region’s sugar industry provides a \nuseful lens through which to understand current dynamics of corporate capital and agricultural \nproduction in Africa. We identify three distinct elements of political-economic analysis: first, \nthe operation of logics of capital investment in different settings; …
Crisis and Differentiation among Small-Scale Sugar Cane Growers in Nkomazi, South Africa
Against a context of declining sugar output in South Africa as a whole, the sugar industry in the Nkomazi Municipality of Mpumalanga Province has increased its share of the South African market. It has achieved this over a period of significant change in ownership, with the transfer of at least 25 per cent of land growing sugar cane into black community ownership through South Africa's land reform programme. The industry now claims that the major…
Economics (21 works) · Geography (21 works) · Political science (20 works) · Agriculture (18 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (13 works) · Business (12 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (12 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Natural resource economics (9 works) · Law (8 works)