Malawi and Poverty
- Capital:
Lilongwe - Population:
15447500 - Size:
118480.0 Km2
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- The BLDS poverty collection
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- Search for the latest poverty-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Moving women out of poverty through the development of small fish processing enterprises in Malawi
- D. Jamu / Global Forum on Agricultural Research, 2012
- Malawi is one of the countries in Africa which is highly dependent on fish as a source of animal protein. Malawi produces about 70,000 tons of fish annually from its lakes, rivers and swamps. The fishing industry supports the liveliho...
- Slowing population growth in Malawi is essential for poverty reduction strategies to work
- Ministry of Development Planning and Cooperation, Government of Malawi, 2012
- Malawi adds over 400,000 people each year to its population. Without a reduction in the average number of births per woman, health, education and employment services will be overstretched. This trend will continue to challenge the cou...
- Social protection for food security: A report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition
- 2012
- Social protection has risen rapidly up the development policy agenda in the last decade. There is also a clear trend to making social protection, as well as food security, ‘rights-based’ rather than ‘discretionary’...
- Seasonality and Social Protection in Africa
- S. Devereux / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2009
- Stephen Devereux January 2009 This Working Paper draws on nearly twenty years of research in several African countries on the inter-related themes of food insecurity, seasonality, coping strategies, famine, formal and info...
- Dissonance in Development. Foreign aid and state formation in Malawi
- O. Eggen / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of L, 2011
- This PhD thesis focuses on certain characteristics of the state and of state formation in Malawi, with particular emphasis on the effects of development aid. It consists of three papers for publication in journals, each focusing on di...
- 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...
- Does Malawi have the capacity to meet the Millennium Development Goals?
- Government of Malawi, 2010
- This paper presents the Malawi government's statement of progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The goals are implemented in Malawi through the medium term development strategy known as the Malawi Growth and Development ...
- Do Malawians think Genetic Modified foods are safe?
- C. Mataya / University of Malawi - The Polytechnic, 2006
- During the past two decades Malawi has increasingly relied on imports and food aid to compensate for recurring food production deficits. The use of imports and food aid to mitigate starvation in Malawi and neighbouring Sou...
- Measuring household poverty in Malawi
- National Statistical Office of Malawi, 2005
- In 1997-98, Malawi conducted the first Integrated Household Survey (IHS-1). The survey was designed by the National Statistics Office (NSO) of Malawi with technical assistance from IFPRI and the World Bank. It was carried out from Nov...
- 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...
- Ministry of Development Planning and Cooperation, Government of Malawi
- The Ministry of Development Planning and Cooperation is Malawi Government's main planning agency responsible for national economic and development planning, and monitoring and evaluation of socio-economic issues in the country. Its main mandate is to provide professional advice and technical support to Government and the public on economic and social policy development and management so as to achi...
- National Research Council of Malawi (NRCM)
- Promoting science and technology-led development in Malawi
- Malawi Social Cash Transfer Pilot Scheme
- Malawi social cash transfer pilot scheme
- Malawi Economic Justice Network (MEJN)
- Pro-poor civil society organisation
