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Searching with a thematic focus on Environment, Environment and Forestry in Malawi

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    Response of selected tree species to experimental bark harvesting

    Forestry Research Institute of Malawi, 2007
    In Malawi over 90 percent of the population use only traditional medicine or use it in combination with western medicine for the treatment of various ailments. Over 60 percent of traditional medicines are comprised of plant materials.
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    The links between poverty and the environment in Malawi

    Population Studies Centre, University of Waikato, 2009
    Deforestation arising from conversion of forest areas into agriculture is a serious problem in Malawi. This paper discusses competition for agricultural land and investigates why the poor are closely associated with forests. Furthermore, the paper examines the effects of changes in crop land use on changes in forest cover.
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    Malawi's green gold: challenges and opportunities for small and medium forest enterprises in reducing poverty

    Forestry and Land Use Programme, IIED, 2008
    Approximately 85% of Malawi’s population live in rural areas and depend in some way on forests for their livelihoods. Recent government policies have highlighted how forest resources could do more to help reduce poverty through the development of small and medium forest enterprises (SMFEs).
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    Forestry Research Institute of Malawi (FRIM)

    The Forestry Research Institute of Malawi (FRIM) aims to conduct operational forestry research to generate usable technologies and provide information for sustainable management, conservation and util
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    Local government accountability

    Policy Power tools, 2005
    This tool, based on experience in decentralisation of forestry in Malawi, describes ways to help rural citizens to bring local authorities to account. It is aimed at change agents in rural locations. It raises community expectations about the quality of service provision – and describes a set of steps to install improvements.
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    Nkhalango!: a social forestry model: expereinces from Blantyre city fuelwood project in southern Malawi

    Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003
    This book records the successes and failures from the Blantyre City Fuel Wood Project (BCFP) in Southern Malawi. It focuses on the transfer of responsibilities for plantations and indigenous forests to newly created village institutions set up to manage these assets sustainably.It presents a model of best practice, NKHALANGO!
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    Land, people and forests in Eastern and Southern Africa: a study of the impact of land relations upon community involvement in forest future

    Land Rights in Africa, Oxfam, 2000
    Examines the relationship of people’s rights in land to the manner in which they may be involved in the management of forests in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, Lesotho and to a lesser degree Botswana and Swaziland.Includes examination of property relations, state power, land reform, recognition of customary rights, the changing nature o
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    GIS technology transfer : an ecological approach : final report

    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, USAID in particular, with the high cost and inconsistent results of GIS technology transfer projects in the area of environmental management.
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    Malawi: Services and policies needed to support sustainable smallholder agriculture

    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, deforestation, poverty and high population growth rate.

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