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  Social protection mechanisms in southern Africa

  Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2006

  Social protection is a relatively new concept in southern Africa. Regular, predictable and guaranteed transfers to the vulnerable in most countries have yet to be integrated into existing policies safeguarding lives following livelihood shocks such as drought and conflict.
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  Poverty Reduction Strategies and the rural productive sectors: insights from Malawi, Nicaragua and Vietnam

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This paper looks at the treatment of rural productive sectors in Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS) for three countries, focussing particularly on agriculture and to a lesser degree forestry, fisheries and tourism.
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  Macroeconomic policy choices for growth and poverty reduction: access to land, growth and poverty reduction in Malawi

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  Malawi has pursued an agricultural-led development strategy since independence in 1964. This was a dual strategy which promoted estate agriculture for export earnings on the one hand, and smallholder agriculture for food security and subsistence needs.
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  Targeted Inputs Programme (TIP): findings of the monitoring component for TIP 2000-2001

  Department for International Development, UK, 2001

  This paper reports on an impact assessment study of the UK Department for International Development’s (DFID) Targeted Inputs Programme in Malawi. The programme aimed to deliver “starter packs” of seeds and fertiliser to the poorest farm families across the country through a network of village task forces (VTFs).
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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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  Papers of FAO/SARPN Workshop on HIV/AIDS and Land, Pretoria

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2002

  Series of country papers on HIV/AIDS and land in Lesotho, Kenya, South Africa, Malawi, Tanzania, with concluding paper on methodological and conceptual issues. The key questions addressed include: The impact on and changes in land tenure systems (including patterns of ownership, access, and rights) as a consequence of HIV/AIDS with a focus on vulnerable groups.
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  The state of Malawi’s poor: agriculture and making a living from the land

  National Statistical Office of Malawi, 2000

  Briefing on agriculture/poverty linkages found by analysis of the Malawi Intergrated Household SurveyFindings include: Cropping patterns do not differ greatly between poor and non-poor.
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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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  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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  Making less last longer: informal safety nets in Malawi

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  Examines role of informal safety nets in providing protection against livelihood shocks.Summarises state of knowledge on informal safety nets by reviewing available literature and also reporting on household survey carried out in Malawi in 1999.Key finding is that informal transfers, either between rich and poor or the poor themselves, appear to be declining over time, partly as a general co

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