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Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food, Trade Policy in Malawi

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  Tobacco Revenue Management: Malawi Case Study

  University of Malawi - The Polytechnic, 2007

  Malawi is a relatively small country in southern Africa bordered by Zambia, Tanzania and Mozambique. It has a total area of 118,480 km2, a fifth of which is taken up by Lake Malawi. The climate is subtropical, with a rainy season lasting from November to May.
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  Farmer organisations and profitability in smallholder tobacco in Malawi

  Economics Department, University of Malawi, 2009

  Do Malawian smallholder farmers benefit from national institutions in terms of profitability of tobacco farming? This study sought to answer this question, analysing the role of farmer organisations in promoting the welfare of smallholder farmers in the tobacco industry.
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  Future scenarios for agriculture in Malawi: challenges and dilemmas

  Future Agricultures Consortium, 2006

  Agriculture plays an overwhelmingly important role in Malawi's economy. However, food insecurity problems are exacerbated by the widely changeable food prices particularly since the liberalisation of agricultural produce marketing and the removal of price controls on maize.
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  Market integration with transaction costs in developing country staple food markets: the case of the Malawi maize market

  AgEcon Search, 2010

  A higher degree of market integration entails smooth trade flows from surplus areas to deficit areas, less price volatility, and higher welfare. This paper investigates measurement of market integration of staple food markets in developing countries, examining the Malawi maize market as a case study.
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  Determinants of agricultural technology adoption: the case of improved groundnut varieties in Malawi

  AgEcon Search, 2010

  This paper makes reference to the actual and potential adoption rates of improved groundnut varieties in Malawi and their determinants conditional on farmers’ awareness of the technology. The document indicates the relatively large unmet demand for improved groundnut varieties, introducing the following findings:
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  Import/export parity price analysis

  Famine Early Warning Systems Network, 2008

  This manual focuses on the role parity prices play in food security and early warning analysis. Parity prices are used to compare prices of a commodity in two different locations, when the two locations are in different countries.
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  Resurrecting the vestiges of a developmental state in Malawi? Reflections and lessons from the 2005/2006 fertilizer subsidy program

  Future Agricultures Consortium, 2007

  The 2005/2006 fertiliser subsidy programme is widely cited as the most significant policy achievement of the Malawian government since the advent of a democratic political dispensation over a decade ago. This is especially in view of the fact that the programme was implemented against the advice of a whole gamut of technical experts and development partners.
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  Fertiliser subsidies and sustainable agricultural growth in Africa: current issues and empirical evidence from Malawi, Zambia, and Kenya

  The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2008

  The role of input subsidies in stimulating growth and addressing food security and poverty alleviation objectives has re-emerged as an important  debate in agricultural policy.
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  The Malawi fertiliser subsidy programme: politics and pragmatism

  Future Agricultures Consortium, 2008

  Food insecurity in Malawi has become endemic, with around 70-80% of rural households short of self-produced staple foods for four to five months of the year. This Future Agricultures brief reviews the Malawian government's Fertiliser Subsidy Programme (FSP), introduced in 2005/2006 as a means of attempting to tackle the ever-pressing food crisis.
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  Privatisation and liberalisation in the agricultural sector: an examination of processes and outcomes in three African cases

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2007

  This report assesses issues surrounding promotion of privatisation and liberalisation measures by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the context of African primary production.

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