Malawi and Livelihoods
- Capital:
Lilongwe - Population:
15447500 - Size:
118480.0 Km2
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- What was the peasants' reponse to the conservation policies in colonial rural Malawi?
- W. Mulwafu / Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, 2012
- Malimidwe (conservation) policies in colonial Malawi represented a threat to peasants. These policies interfered with their household economies and restricted local their autonomy. As a reaction, for the first time since the Chilembwe...
- Fuelwood collection in Malawi and associated environmental issues
- C.B.L. Jumbe; A. Angelsen / Eldis Document Store, 2010
- In Malawi, biomass energy accounts for more than 90% of the total primary energy consumption, and forests contribute nearly 75% of the total biomass supply. This paper addresses two questions: what determines Malawian household's choi...
- Will the customary role of village heads in Malawi still prevail?
- P. Kishindo / Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, 2011
- Village heads form the access point to customary land in Malawi. Rapid population growth and agricultural policies that favoured large scale commercial agriculture and permitted the conversion of customary land to private tenure have ...
- Malawian farmers' willingness to allocate funds for input purchase at harvest time
- S.T. Holden (ed); R. Lunduka (ed) / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2011
- Malawi has implemented a large-scale agricultural input subsidy program since 2005 after a period with severe food shortages and the program has contributed to increased food availability, higher real wages, economic growth and povert...
- Is urban agriculture paying dividends in the fight against hunger in Malawi?
- D. Mkwambisi; E. Fraser; A. Dougill / Leeds University, 2007
- Urban agriculture (UA) can reduce poverty but there is need for more precise analyses on how it contributes to food security. A study in Malawi,revealed two predominant types of urban farmers: poor, less educated...
- Social protection case studies from Malawi
- G. Sevenier; D. Jinadasa / United Nations Children's Fund, 2007
- This story-telling publication raises awareness about the impact of cash transfers on the lives of the most vulnerable children in Malawi. It forms one part of an advocacy package on the Malawi's pilot social cash transfer scheme, tog...
- Cash transfers and sexual behaviour of young women in Malawi
- E. Chirwa; S. Baird; C. Mclntosh (ed) / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2009
- Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) can be an important component of social protection policy and there is considerable evidence that CCTs have improved the lives of poor people. Zomba Cash Transfer Programme, Malawi, is a randomized, o...
- A review of the poorly performing policy and institutional framework of the fisheries sector in Malawi
- B. Chinsinga / Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2008
- This paper presents issues for consideration in the development of a proposal for possible funding to address the policy and institutional framework for the fisheries sector in Malawi. It is based on consultations with officials from ...
- This study analyses the political transition and its consequences on street vending in Malawi
- H.M. Kayuni; R.I.C. Tambulasi / Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2009
- Based on ten years' research into street vending, Cross (2000) concludes “street vending should, by all logical criteria, eventually disappear”. Yet despite this logical analysis Cross adds “what was found, however, ...
- A study of the wage rate paid to participants of PWPs in relation to the Government of Malawi's social protection objectives
- E.W. Chirwa; A. Mc cord; P. Mvula 2004
- The Malawi Government, with assistance from the Department for International Development (DfID) of the Government of the United Kingdom, is implementing an Inception Phase for the National Safety Nets Programme (NSNP). The NSNP consti...
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