Malawi and Agriculture and food
- Capital:
Lilongwe - Population:
15447500 - Size:
118480.0 Km2
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- The BLDS agriculture collection
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Search for the latest agriculture-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- GIS technology transfer : an ecological approach : final report
- J. Ronald Eastman; James Toledano / Office of Arid Land Studies University of Arizona, 1996
- The GIS technology transfer approach described here addresses the issue of sustainable technology transfer in a development setting. It was prompted by a growing discontent within the development community, and the Bureau for Africa, ...
- Needs and opportunities for greater investment in biotechnology research
- J. Komen; H. Webber; J. Mignouna / International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2000
- Based on survey in 9 countries Looks at the development of agricultural biotechnology in Africa, and this constrains donor agencies in strategically directing their funding. This survey is based on assessment studies in 9 coun...
- Promoting changes in current approaches to sustainable agriculture in Malawi
- E. Cromwell; P. Kambewa; R. Mwanza; R. Chirwa / Agricultural Research and Extension Network, 2001
- This paper is based on a study undertaken as part of the Malawi Starter Pack Evaluation Programme (1999–2000). Focusing on the concept of ‘sustainable agriculture’, it describes how participatory approaches can be used ...
- Short article on the first roundtable conference on the integrated Water Resources Development and Management in the SADC region
- Tinashe Madava / Southern African Research and Documentation Centre, 1999
- Sharing water resources in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has been discussed for a long time. The region is now moving towards implementing the strategies and policies in water development and management. The articl...
- Implications for the design and targetting of more formal safety nets
- S. Devereux / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999
- Examines role of informal safety nets in providing protection against livelihood shocks. Summarises state of knowledge on informal safety nets by reviewing available literature and also reporting on household survey carried out...
- Changing economic and social patterns in African rural settlements
- D. Bryceson / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000
- This paper synthesises the findings and main policy implications of new empirical studies on changing rural livelihoods from the De-Agrarianisation and Rural Employment (DARE) research programme at the African Studies Centre, Universi...
- Livelihoods and security issues in Malawi
- M. Whiteside / Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1999
- Ganyu is widely used in Malawi to describe a range of short term rural labour relationships, the most common of which is piecework weeding or ridging on the fields of other smallholders or on agricultural estates. Ganyu is a crucial p...
- Tenure reforms: a shift in power to local landholders?
- L., W. Wily / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000
- This paper examines the current wave of land tenure reform in eastern and southern Africa. It discusses how far tenure reform reflects a shift in powers over property from centre to periphery. A central question is whether tenure refo...
- Malawi: Services and policies needed to support sustainable smallholder agriculture
- M. Whiteside; S. Carr / Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997
- Malawi’ s smallholder agriculture is facing a crisis, particularly in the more populated south. There is an insidious combination of land shortage, continuous cultivation of maize, declining soil fertility, low yields, deforestat...
- Maize research impact in Africa : the obscured revolution : complete report Elon Gilbert ... [et al.]
- Elon Gilbert / Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1994
- This report will be especially useful to those policymakers and groups that have made significant investments in maize research and development in Africa over the past 20 years. The study chronicles investment trends in maize in Afric...
- Bunda College of Agriculture
Provides training in food production, food security, conservation and natural resource management
