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No.50: Autumn 2025 Agriculture For Development – Special 50th edition on agriculture for development in a changing world
This is a landmark edition as it is our 50th issue. It is a special issue on the subject “Agriculture for development in a changing world”. This issue includes articles on: LendWithCare Agroecology for global food security The glyphosate conundrum Fifty issues of Ag4Dev Agri-BRIDGE Full circle, but a different world Resetting support to food systems transformation CGIAR Science Week People-centred agendas Knowledge, farmer sovereignty and diversity Is “agriculture and rural development” obsolete?
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No.49: Spring 2025 Agriculture For Development – Special edition on biodiversity and food systems
Exploring the relationship between biodiversity (tea, coffee, legumes, livestock, insects, fungi and farmed fish) and global food systems, and the biodiversity agenda in the climate–biodiversity–livelihood nexus.
Advancing agroforestry with smallholders.
Farmer research networks for co-learning and innovation.
In-situ and ex-situ conservation to safeguard wild edible plant species.
Ethnobotany to investigate crop diversity and cultural food systems.
Merits of One Health
Leveraging investment from the private sector.
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No.48: Summer/Autumn 2024 Agriculture For Development – Open Issue
Review of the FCDO 2023 International Development White Paper
Climate field schools: Building resilience
Regenerative and sustainable agricultural systems
ICTA: The roots of Tropical Agriculture Association International
Opinion: Agriculture as a role model for the transformation of higher education
Opinion: Importance of nutrition to agriculture for development
Obituary: Francis Shaxson
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No. 47: Winter 2023/24 Agriculture for Development – Special Issue on Supporting agrifood systems in times of crisis and conflict
No. 46: Winter 2023 Agriculture for Development – Special Issue on Conservation Agriculture and the Environment
This issue includes the Declaration of the 8th World Congress on Conservation Agriculture (8WCCA) and its inaugural speech. Ten articles by leading international experts cover the four themes: Improving soil health by restoring agricultural lands with CA; Reducing pollution from chemicals and dust with CA; Mitigating and adapting to climate change with CA; and Policy and institutional support for environmental land management with CA. It also provides information on the inside rear cover on how to join Tropical Agriculture Association International.
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No. 45: Autumn 2022 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
Crop genetic diversity: a personal journey | Crop genetic diversity: a personal journey | Refugees in Uganda: providing agricultural finance to increase autonomy and improve livelihoods |International agricultural research news | Smallholder farming and productivity: what we know and what really matters | Transforming food systems: restating the case for small farms| CGIAR reform: One CGIAR | Land use, agriculture and food security in Bangladesh | International agricultural research news: the landscape as the unit of research | The imperative of food systems transformation in rescuing the SDGs: what role will the United Nations Food Systems Coordination Hub need to play?| Bookstack | Development aid: the good, the bad and the ugly | Climate change 2022: impacts, adaptation and vulnerability (IPCC Report) |Outstanding Seale-Haynians | Advances in conservation agriculture, vol. 3 | Regenesis: feeding the world without devouring the planet
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No. 44: Winter 2021 Agriculture for Development – Special issue commemorating the life and work of Hugh Brammer
Hugh Brammer and his legacy | Hugh Brammer’s contribution to information, soil science, agriculture and economic and social development | Banglapaedia |Contributions to soil science: looking back; looking ahead | Stranded assets | Soil mapping today: computer-generated predictive soil maps | Land use, food security and climate change | Land use, agriculture and food security in Bangladesh | International agricultural research news: the landscape as the unit of research | Perceptions of climatic risk across different climatic zones in Bangladesh| Bookstack | Use of information and communications technology tools for tractor hire services in Africa| Agricultural robotics and automated equipment for sustainable crop production | Social development in the World Bank: essays in honor of Michael M. Cernea|
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No. 43: Summer 2021 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
Wildlife, agriculture and fishing in the Mexican Pacific coastal region | Agriculture and development: framing the story | Campaign for an International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP) |Does mechanisation make work easier and better? | Deep bed farming in Malawi – Tiyeni |TAA Development Agriculturalist Award 2020: Robert Chambers | Mangroves and ecosystem security | UN Food Systems Summit 2021: an alternative perspective |Rock meal farm tests in tropical Brazil | International agricultural research news: climate knowledge and adaptation approaches for fisheries and aquaculture | ‘Conservation Agriculture Plus’ |
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No. 42: Spring 2021 Agriculture for Development – Special issue on food systems transformation for inclusive and sustainable development
United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021 | Ensuring food systems transformations are inclusive of the rural poor | Empowering rural women in food system decision-making | Feminist approaches to transforming food systems | Livestock innovations for resilient food systems in Africa | Livestock innovations for resilient food systems in Africa | International agricultural research and food system sustainability | Sustainable food consumption patterns and the 2030 Agenda | Roles of small cities and rural towns | Indigenous peoples’ food systems | Rethinking food systems interventions | Food systems, climate change and intermediary cities | Food systems, biodiversity and wildlife habitat
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No. 41: Winter 2020 Agriculture for Development – Special issue on inclusive agricultural and rural development in fragile situations and crises
Climate change adaptation for smallholders | COVID-19 effects on crop and livestock production | Global assessment of countries’ participation in global agriculture and food value chains – implications of COVID-19 | The smart food triple bottom line | COVID-19 and agriculture for development: calls for action | Eswatini and COVID-19 | COVID-19 impacts on smallholders in Zambia | Revolving funds to support livelihoods (Cambodia) | COVID-19 impacts on smallholders in Fiji | COVID-19 impacts on food security and production in Bangladesh | Carbon sequestration: the natural way | Taro viruses in the South Pacific | From the ground up: soil management and climate | Zambian Institute of Agriculture
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No 40: Summer 2020 Agriculture for Development – Special issue on the contributions of non-governmental organisations and civil society to agricultural & rural development
Involving local communities in setting the agricultural development agenda | Ten years of opportunities to improve the lives of family farmers | BRAC’s contributions to agricultural development | Updated data sets for more e-client investment strategies for family farms | Can food production keep up with population increase in Malawi? | Northern civil society in agriculture in the South: a failure? |A systems approach to unlock the potential of African agriculture | Promoting biodiversity and livelihoods through community forest restoration | Introducing the new Chair of TAA | Alternative livelihoods in an opium-based agricultural economy | News from NGO institutional members.
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No. 39: Spring 2020 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
14th Hugh Bunting Memorial Lecture: Smarter foods | Agricultural hazard management in Bangladesh |IPPC special report Climate change and land: extended review | Getting more, much more, from tropical agriculture | Sir George Stapledon | Agriculture and rural roads | TAA 2019 AGM report | TAA 2019 Honours |Moving coastlines: farming the mudflats of Bangladesh | Digital farming and tropical agriculture.
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No. 38: Winter 2019 Agriculture for Development – Special issue on agribusiness incubation in Africa
The present state and potential of African agribusiness and agribusiness incubation | The why and how of African agribusiness incubation | Creating employment opportunities in the African agribusiness sector for youths and women | Mentorship: the key to success for young founders of agribusinesses | Africa’s agribusiness incubation ecosystem |The future for African agribusiness incubation | 36th Ralph Melville Memorial Lecture: Clean cold chains – the glaring omission from the global development and climate debates
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No. 37: Summer 2019 Agriculture for Development – Special issue on the 40th Anniversary of the TAA
Forty years of history of the Tropical Agriculture Association (TAA) | A history of the Tropical Agriculture Award Fund (TAAF) | Tropical agriculturalists: an appreciation of some past TAA members | Questions of rural development: thoughts on project M&E | Key changes in international agriculture and rural development issues | Forty years of TAA members’ leadership in international agricultural research | Current status of apple snail invasions in Malaysia | 13th Hugh Bunting Memorial Lecture: Climate risk management in sub-Saharan agriculture.
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No. 36: Spring 2019 Agriculture for Development – Special Issue on the Clean Cold Chain in Agriculture in Developing Countries
Growing the cold chain in developing and emerging economies | Public–private knowledge partnership: redefining the cold-chain | Clean cold-chain development and the critical role of extension education | The new cold economy: liberating economic growth and development.
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No. 35: Winter 2018 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
35th Ralph Melville Memorial Lecture: Game-changing technologies for agriculture | Livelihoods and sustainable land management in Ethiopia | Eliminating puddling in rice by using zero tillage “ A place for equines in the 21st century | The invasive apple snail in Indonesia | Nematode, mite and insect pests of tamarind.
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No. 34: Summer 2018 Agriculture for Development – Special Issue on Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA)
Special Issue on Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA). CEA: what is it, and how is it applied? | Global applications of CEA | Does Africa need CEA? | Large-scale CEA globally, and its potential for Africa | A CEA application for small-scale producers in Africa | CEA in Africa: benefits, challenges and political economy | INMED aquaponics: cultivating farmers of the future | The way forward for CEA in Africa.
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No. 33: Spring 2018 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
12th Hugh Bunting Memorial Lecture: Integrating women and youth in climate-smart African agriculture;The impact of elevated levels of carbon dioxide; The famine on our doorstep; Invasive apple snails in Thailand; No nonsense surveys; Building on gender dynamics in Tanzania; A chicken in every pot; TAA 2017 AGM reports and presentations.
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No. 32: Winter 2017 Agriculture for Development – Special issue on women in agriculture
Women in agriculture: negotiating and networking gender differentials in access to land in India | Changing roles of North Ghanaian women in agriculture | Gender mainstreaming at the National Autonomous University of Mexico | Two perspectives on gender equality and food security | Rethinking how gender matters for food security | Negotiating productive and reproductive roles through time | Women in cooperative agriculture in Lesotho.
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No. 31: Summer 2017 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
34th Ralph Melville Memorial Lecture: Interdisciplinary food systems training; Yielding results: the importance of statistical thinking; Design and delivery of community development projects; Farm mechanisation: a liberation for women?; Closing the loop: CA, agricultural waste, biogasifier stoves and charcoal; Unlocking the potential of grass pea for food security; The new CGIAR system takes off.
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No. 30: Spring 2017 Agriculture for Development – Special issue on climate-smart agriculture (CSA)
CSA strategies, policies, partnerships and investments; ‘CSA Plan’: strategies to put CSA into practice; The mitigation pillar of CSA; Agricultural diversification as an adaptation strategy; Climte services and insurance: scaling CSA; Closing the gender gap in agriculture under climate change; How can the ‘Data Revolution’ contribute to climate action?; Climate change and CSA in the current political climate.
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No. 29: Winter 2016 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
Yield expectations and efficiency in Sierra Leone; More power to their elbows: increasing smallholder farm productivity; The humble lablab bean in Bangladesh; The UK should seize the Brexit moment to reform its food policies; A review of the insect and mite pests of Moringa; Wheat blast in Bangladesh; An update of Bandwagons I have known
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No. 28: Summer 2016 Agriculture for Development – Special issue on agroforestry.
Has agroforestry come of age? | The role of trees in combatting hidden hunger | Agroforestry, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services | Local knowledge and tree species selection on coffee farms | Trees for refugee camps | Tree planting by farmers in Malawi | Scaling-up agroforestry in post-conflict Democratic Republic of Congo | GM crops, the first twenty years: what’s not to like?
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No. 27: Spring 2016 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
The 33rd Ralph Melville Memorial Lecture: Changing needs and changing opportunities in international natural resource development | Technology transfer: shortcomings | Mechanisation: a vital input for smallholder farmers | But should we all pay more for our food? | Soil compaction versus sustainability | Moringa oelifera in the Pacific; |The International Year of Pulses: what are they and why are they important? | Conservation agriculture activities at COP21 | DFID�s Conceptual Framework on Agriculture.
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No. 26: Winter 2015 Agriculture for Development – Special Issue on Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture
Special Issue on ‘Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture’. A global view of urban and peri-urban agriculture; Nutrition implications of urban and peri-urban agriculture; Agriculture in the rural-urban continuum: a CGIAR research perspective; Flowers watered with beer; Nutrient value of human waste to plants; The programme of Urban Agriculture in Cuba; Crop-livestock integration in peri-urban settings; Closing the nutrient cycle: linking urban solid waste management and soil amendments; The 32nd Ralph Melville Memorial Lecture (2014): improving smallholder agriculture.
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No. 25: Summer 2015 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
10th Hugh Bunting Memorial Lecture: Going the extra mile: helping smallholder farmers; Agroforestry adoption in tribal areas of India; Implications of urbanisation in SSA; Why we need to address food demand; Enchanting entrepreneurs in the Philippines; Thirty-five years of history for the TAA; Deep water rice-upland vegetable system in Viet Nam.
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No. 24: Spring 2015 Agriculture for Development – Special Issue on Soils
Special Issue on Soils. A longer, closer look at land degradation; Managing soil carbon; Soil erosion and conservation; Ecological restructuring of agriculture; Soil fertility in sub-Saharan Africa; Healthy soil: for healthy people and landscapes; New ways of looking at the soil profile.
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No. 23: Winter 2014 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
The 9th Hugh Bunting Memorial Lecture; Perhaps we all should pay more for our food; The System of Rice Intensification; Land resources information in dire straits; Climate change and sea-level rise in Bangladesh; Technology in support of agroecology; Family farms.
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No. 22: Summer 2014 Agriculture for Development – Special Issue on Climate Change and Agriculture
Special Issue on Climate Change and Agriculture. The Fifth Assessment Report and agriculture; Climate change and sustainable agricultural technologies; Climate change, agriculture and food security; Climate change from political economy perspectives; Climate change impacts and mitigation; Climate change and livestock in developing countries.
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No. 21: Spring 2014 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
Challenges of the 21st Century (31st Ralph Melville Memorial Lecture); Low-cost technologies for coffee growers in Ethiopia;
The oil palm: panacea or pariah? Meso-scale water harvesting in Tanzania; Agro-ecology and development in Bangladesh; The spread of small pump sets and lay-flat pipes in Nepal; Where will your next fish supper come from?
No. 20: Winter 2013 Agriculture for Development – Special Issue on Water in Agriculture
Special issue on Water in Agriculture Irrigated agriculture and water use: the global picture The Likangala Irrigation Scheme, Malawi Water harvesting in East and West Africa CDC’s irrigated commercial agriculture in Zambia; Saving water in irrigated agriculture: myth and reality; Hydrological impacts of land use and catchment management. Note on weed control for zero tillage organic soybeans in Brazil; REDD+ implementation among Amazonian communities.
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No. 19: Summer 2013 Agriculture for Development – Special Issue on Commercialisation of Smallholders
Special issue on Commercialisation of Smallholders; 8th Hugh Bunting Memorial Lecture – Horticulture; Conservation Agriculture for sustainable intensification; Precision agriculture for smallholder farmers; Commercialisation and improved financial management; Hire services as a business; Hand-tool manufacture; Commercialisation of Artemesia annua; Population growth and food production.
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No. 18: Spring 2013 Agriculture for Development – Special Issue on Innovation Systems
Special issue on Innovation Systems. Ralph Melville Memorial Lecture – shaping the future together; rnDevelopment and application of Innovation Systems; Linking innovations systems with participatory research and extension; Incorporating gender into Innovation Systems research; Biogas innovation among pig farmers in the Philippines; Plantwise: putting Innovations Systems principles into practice. Rural-urban linkages in Guatemala; Genetically modified crops: time for a reasoned stance?
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No. 17: Winter 2012 Agriculture for Development – Special Issue on Livestock in Development
Special issue on Livestock in DevelopmentrnLivestock goods and bads; Sustainable livestock development; The deadly gifts of livestock – zoonoses; Livestock and climate change; Global warming – should we worry?; Soil complexity and arsenic mitigation.
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No. 16: Summer 2012 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
The Earth Summit : Rio+20; The future of agriculture through a hunger eradication lens; Farming complexity in Bangladesh; Small-scale agro-industries for agricultural sector growth; Global warming – is it real? The population food equation- population limits; On-farm tree planting in Malawi.No 16 Summer 2012
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No. 15: Spring 2012 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
Agriculture and eradicating poverty; How rice will be produced in the future; World Congress of Conservation Agriculture; Distance learning; Durban climate change conference; Meeting the Relics: a day at WOSSAC
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No. 14: Summer/Autumn 2011 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
The future of farming: What needs to change? Conservation Agriculture for sustainable cropping, Harnessing farmers’ knowledge, Land for life & livelihoods
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No. 13: Spring 2011 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
Boxes, Tea and Lovegrass, Human Race Prosperity, Pakistan Flood of 2010 – the Consequences, Food Crisis Continues
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No. 12: Winter 2010 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
Farmers: integral management Uganda: Dynamics of social capital in farmer groups in Developing Countries: The Role of Mechanization; CABI’s first 100 years
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No. 11: Autumn 2010 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
Fifth Hugh Bunting Memorial Lecture; Saving our soils; Conservation Agriculture: Zimbabwe; Gas, grain & gardens
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No. 10: Summer 2010 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
Climate change: Tropical Forests; Climate change: Bangladesh; Organic matter; Caribbean food crops
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No. 9: March 2010 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
Climate change, Conservation agriculture, technology, Role of women in farming
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No. 8: December 2009 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
Melville Memorial Lecture, Caribbean agricultural research, Ethiopia forest management
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No. 7: September 2009 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
Biodiverse Agriculture, Conservation Agriculture, CADeP-Uganda, School Linking Programme
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No. 6: June 2009 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
Conservation Agriculture, Crop Bioengineering, Challenges for Tropical Agriculture
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No. 5: March 2009 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
Ralph Melville Memorial Lecture – African Agriculture, Farmer Field Schools, Fair Trade
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No. 4: December 2008 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
Perennial Energy Crops, The Food & Fuel Balance, Clean Energy ‘deals’, Forest-friendly farming
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No. 3: September 2008 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
Bunting Memorial Lecture, World Development Report 2008, Conservation Agriculture, India and workshop at FAO
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No. 2: June 2008 Agriculture for Development – Special Issue on Biofuels
Food and Bioenergy, Poverty Reduction, Biofuel crops for small farmers, “Enlarged” biofuel production
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No. 1: March 2008 Agriculture for Development – Open issue
Securing crop diversity, Biological control, Conservation strategies, On-farm conservation, Livestock
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