Perhaps you know that the Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that there are 868 million people chronically hungry in the world. But did you know that 1 in 3 children in developing countries suffer from stunted growth because they are malnourished? This and other facts and figures from Gordon Conway’s recently released book, One Billion… Read more »
Publications 
WOMEN IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE (2012)
The Montpellier Panel call for an urgent and transformative focus on the needs and perspectives of women in smallholder agricultural policy in sub-Saharan Africa. Women play crucial roles as farmers and businesswomen in smallholder agricultural production, as mothers managing household nutrition, and as innovators and educators. Indeed these roles span across the entire value chain…. Read more »
GROWTH WITH RESILIENCE: OPPORTUNITIES IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE (2012)
The Montpellier Panel presented their new report ‘Growth with Resilience: Opportunities for African Agriculture’ on Wednesday 21st March at the Department for International Development (DFID), London and on Thursday 22nd March at the European Commission, Brussels. The report aims to inform discussions related to key policy events in 2012 and will look broadly at agriculture’s role in supporting… Read more »
SCALING UP NUTRITION (2011)
On 17th May 2011, the Montpellier Panel launched a briefing paper on Scaling Up Nutrition in the UK Parliament. 195 million children are stunted. This is a third of all children in the world who are under five years old. Of these, 90% live in just 36 countries, 21 of which are in Sub-Saharan Africa…. Read more »
HOW ARE WE DOING? INDEPENDENT EVALUATION FROM FIRETAIL (2011)
Firetail, a strategy consultancy firm for civil society, have produced an independent evaluation of our work.
AFRICA AND EUROPE: PARTNERSHIPS FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT (2010)
For the first time in two generations, Africa has a real opportunity to achieve food and nutrition security through agricultural development. There is also an opportunity for Europe to play a unique and significant role, as a partner with African nations, in attaining this goal. In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in 2009 there were 265 million… Read more »
SCIENCE AND INNOVATION FOR DEVELOPMENT (2010)
Science and Innovation for Development is co-authored by Gordon Conway and Jeff Waage with Sara Delaney, published by UKCDS. In Science and Innovation for Development, Conway and Waage take on the topic of the crucial role that science can play in the challenge of poverty reduction – with science acting as lever for change through… Read more »
EUROPEAN DONOR REVIEW: A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF EUROPEAN ASSISTANCE TO AGRICULTURE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (2010)
Bruce Hearn Department of Management, University of Leicester Veli Koc Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London Jenifer Piesse Department of Management, King’s College London Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Stellenbosch Colin Thirtle Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Stellenbosch Summary 1. Since the mid 1980s, bilateral… Read more »
EUROPEAN DONOR REVIEW: BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE (2010)
Our Project Professor Sir Gordon Conway at the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is leading a small team to explore the potential for new or improved European support for agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa. Part of this work is what we call strategic… Read more »
EUROPEAN DONOR REVIEW: EUROPEAN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TO SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (2010)
In sub-Saharan Africa, more than 200 million people are undernourished. Africa is also home to 15 of the 16 countries where the prevalence of hunger has exceeded 35%. This review seeks to create an online tool for better understanding of European donor support for agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa. It is an initial attempt to… Read more »
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