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Searching with a thematic focus on Food security in Malawi

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  Operationalising the right to food in Africa

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2001

  This report focuses on how to implement the right to food in four countries in Africa (Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia).
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  The humanitarian crisis in southern Africa: volume 1

  International Development Committee, UK, 2003

  In early 2002 southern Africa was gripped by food shortages. These were just one aspect of a complex humanitarian crisis, with impacts ranging across all sectors, from agriculture, to education and health. The trigger for the crisis was erratic rainfall.
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  Structural damage: the causes and consequences of Malawi’s food crisis

  World Development Movement, 2002

  This report from WDM details IMF enforced policies which it claims have undermined Malawi’s ability to feed its people.
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  Where are the poor?: experiences with the development and use of poverty maps

  Poverty Mapping, 2002

  This document reports on the use of poverty mapping as an instrument for investigating and discussing social, economic, and environmental problems. Within the context of this report, Poverty Mapping is defined as the spatial representation and analysis of indicators of human well being and poverty.
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  Fighting famine in Southern Africa: steps out of the crisis

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  Briefing paper on policy approaches that IFPRI research in Africa has shown to be effective in fighting famine.
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  State of disaster: Causes, consequences & policy lessons from Malawi

  ActionAid International, 2002

  Action Aid report which examines the immediate causes and underlying vulnerabilities which led to the food crisis in Malawi in 2001 and which threatens to cause further famine in 2002. The report challenges a number of fallacies about the famine and concludes that it occurred as a result of the increased vulnerability of rural livelihoods combining with weak institutional policies and responses.
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  Making less last longer: informal safety nets in Malawi

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2001

  Poor households in Malawi have had to adjust to an array of negative shocks to their livelihoods over the past decade. But what coping strategies do poor people adopt in times of crisis? How successful are they?
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  FEWS NET Monthly Food Security Updates

  Famine Early Warning Systems Network, 1999

  News bulletin from FEWS/USAID focusing on food supply prospects and news for African countriesUntil 1999 this was known as the Fews Bulletin
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  The Monthly Food Balance Model: a dynamic tool for food security management in food deficit countries

  1999

  The Monthly Food Balance Model (MFBM) is a dynamic and forward-looking tool that can be used to prepare short-term projections of the adequacy of food availability at a national level.
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  Analysis of policy reforms and structural adjustment programs in Malawi with emphasis on agriculture and trade

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996

  This study’s emphasis on agriculture’s elevated role in Malawi’s medium-term adjustment strategy and its articulation of the sector’s key role as the engine of growth and employment aptly makes an important point. Dr.

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