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  Cash constraints and sticky input expenditures: experimental evidence from Malawi

  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 poverty reduction.
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  Regional variation in livelihood strategies in Malawi

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2009

  An obvious pathway out of poverty for poor households in agricultural based economy is to supplement agricultural incomes with non-farm economic activities. This paper identifies livelihood strategies at the household level as a function of assets held in Malawi.
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  Climate change and rural livelihoods in Malawi: review study report of Norwegian support to FAO and SCC in Malawi, with a note on some regional implications

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2008

  This review seeks to assess the sustainable livelihoods projects currently supported by Norway in Malawi within the context of climate change and its predicted impact on agriculture development and food security.
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  Step by step!: livelihoods, social institutions and treadle pump adoption, Kasungu District, Malawi

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2008

  This study investigates introduction of treadle pumps among poor small-scale farmers and effects of adoption on livelihoods and productivity using a case study from the Kasungu District in Malawi.
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  The maze of maize: improving input and output market access for poor smallholders in southern African region: the experience of Zambia and Malawi

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This study evaluates the causes of the 2001-3 food crisis in Zambia and Malawi, looks at existing policies and makes recommendations to avoid future crises.The study differentiates causes of the crisis (the maize harvest shortfall in 2001, as well as to why the shortfall caused a food emergency) between: immediate causes, such as reduced plantings due to low food prices the p

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