How to (co-)publish

The CTA co-publications programme

Publishers and authors of material in agricultural and rural development are invited to submit their proposals to CTA for support. Our support can take a number of forms including: financing some or all of the costs of production, purchase of a set number of copies of the publication, covering the costs of translation, editorial assistance, and technical or scientific advice.

 If you wish to co-publish with CTA, please note that you should contact us well in advace of the proposed production date.

 CTA prioritises the key focus areas outlined in its Strategic Plan 2011-2015. Therefore, publications dealing with the issues below will be given preference:

  • Agricultural value chain development;
  • Access to markets;
  • Knowledge management for agricultural and rural development;
  • Facilitation of multi-stakeholder dialogue;
  • Information on policy processes and strategies for agricultural and rural development;
  • Innovation in agricultural and rural development; and
  • ICTs for development.

 CTA also places an emphasis on publishing  that deals with a number of the Millenium Development Goals. These include:

  • Ending poverty and hunger
  • Gender equality
  • Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases and their impact on agriculture and rural development
  • Environmental sustainability
  • Global partnerships.

What themes is CTA most interested in?

Our thematic areas are:

  • Agricultural support services (e.g., extension services, credit)
  • Animal production and health (including fisheries)
  • Economics and policy
  • Food safety and human nutrition
  • Food security
  • Information and Communication Management (including ICTs)
  • Management and entrepreneurship (including marketing)
  • National, regional and international trade
  • Natural resources and environment
  • Plant production and protection (including agroforestry)
  • Post-harvest, processing, packaging, storage and transport
  • Rural infrastructures, equipment and mechanization
  • Rural sociology (including gender) and economics
  • Technology and information.

An internal Information Products Committee (IPC) meets monthly to look at the proposals for support sent to CTA.

To consider proposals, CTA needs the following information:

  1. The proposed structure or table of contents (if no manuscript or sample text is available)
  2. If available, the complete manuscript or a few sample chapters (for book proposals), script or scenario (for film or video proposals), sample or prototype (for CDs, databases)
  3. Information about the author(s)
  4. The target audience
  5. Distribution/access considerations
  6. An itemized estimate of the production costs (and information on other potential partners)

CTA will send you a questionnaire to complete.

If your request/proposal is successful, the support that CTA gives may involve financing part of the costs e.g. translation (into English or French) and/or production costs.

Criteria and considerations taken into account by the Committee include:

  1. Correctness of content
  2. Relevance to agricultural and rural development in ACP countries
  3. Target user group(s)
  4. Authorship
  5. Geographical coverage
  6. Innovativeness
  7. Duration of validity
  8. Practicality

For further queries, please contact publishing@cta.int.

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