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

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    Informal cross border food trade in southern Africa

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004
    This brief highlights the issue of trade barriers in southern Africa and its impact on informal cross boarder trade in the region. The report shows that while there may be surpluses in neighbouring countries, food deficit countries such as Zimbabwe continue to experience a high grain prices due to import/export restrictions.
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    The environment, natural resources and HIV/AIDS

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2003
    This short report looks at impacts of HIV/AIDS on agriculture and the environment, with a focus on rural areas in Africa.
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    Agricultural markets in Benin and Malawi: operation and performance of traders

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2002
    Based on original trader surveys, this paper examines how agricultural traders operate in two sub-Saharan African countries, Benin and Malawi. The study finds that the largest transaction costs incurred by traders are for search and transport. Search methods rely principally on personal visits by the trader himself or herself, which raises search costs.
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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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