Prof. Jonathan kydd

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Editor in Chief of Food Policy. With a research background in the field of rural poverty/food systems/agriculture, professor Kydd is presently working within the intellectual framework of (new) institutional economics.  His experience and interests include: a wide ranging knowledge of international development; interest in the use of modern communications technologies for development and extended experience as a commissioner of the implementation of these.  He works sometimes at “grass roots” and sometimes at a high level with developing country government, civil society organisations, the private sector and international development agencies.

Some of his recent publications are:

- Dorward, A., Kydd, J. et al. (2005), Institutions, markets, and economic coordination: linking development policy to theory and praxis, Development and Change, 36 (1), pp. 1-25.

- Dorward, A., Kydd, J.  et al., (2004), Institutions and policies for pro-poor Agricultural Growth, Development Policy Review, vol  22 (6), pp. 611-22.

- Kydd J, Poulton C, Gibbon P, Larsen M, Osorio A and Tschirley D (2004) Competition and Coordination in Liberalised African Cotton Market Systems in World Development.

- Kydd J, Dorward A, Morrison J and Cadisch G (2004) Agricultural Development and Pro Poor Economic Growth in Sub Saharan Africa: Potential and Policy in Oxford Development Studies .

- Kydd J, Dorward A, Morrison J and Urey I (2004) A Policy Agenda for Pro-Poor Agricultural Growth in World Development .

- Kydd, Dorward A, Poole N, Morrison J, Poulton C and Urey I (2003) Markets, institutions and technology: missing links in livelihoods analysis. Development Policy Review, 21 (3) 319-332 .

- Kydd J and Dorward A (2001) The Washington Consensus on Poor Country Agriculture: Analysis, Prescription and Institutional Gaps. Development Policy Review - Theme Issue: Rethinking Rural Development, 19 (4) 467–478 .

- Dorward, A., Kydd, J. (2001), The Effects of Transaction Cost, Power and Risk on Contractual Arrangements, Journal of Agricultural Economic, 52 (2), pp. 59-74, May.