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    Input subsidies and improved maize varieties in Malawi: -What can we learn from the impacts in a drought year?

    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2013
    After six years with a large scale Farm Input Subsidy Program that enhanced national and household food security high costs resulted in a cut-back of the program in 2011/12 at the same time as the country
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    Bringing people back into protected forests in developing countries: insights from co-management in Malawi

    Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013
    Focusing on Malawi, this study examines struggles to bring people back into protected forests to enhance sustainable forest management and livelihoods using insights emerging from a co-management project in Malawi. It uses mixed social science methods to analyse continuing local forest-user commitment to co-management despite conservation burdens largely for minimal financial benefits.
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    Understanding Wage Issues in the Tea Industry

    Oxfam, 2013
    Wage levels are an issue of concern across the globe as individuals, companies and governments wrestle with how wages paid to workers relate to costs of living, corporate and national competitiveness, profitability and broader macroeconomic trends and challenges.
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    Evaluation of Norway’s Bilateral Agricultural Support to Food Security

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2013
    The purpose of this evaluation was “to assess to what extent Norwegian funds for agriculture have contributed to food security, with a view to get recommendations for future support”. The period under evaluation was 2005-2011. The evaluation focused on four aspects (clusters): 1. Contribution to food security. 2. Monitoring, evaluation and documentation. 3. Sustainability and scaling-up. 4.
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    Amazing maize in Malawi: Input subsidies, factor productivity and land use intensification

    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2013
    This paper uses three years of household farm plot panel data (2006-2009), covering six districts in central and southern Malawi to assess factor productivity and farming system development under the input subsidy program. All farm plots of the households were measured with GPS.
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    Tried and tested: learning from farmers on adaptation to climate change

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013
    Small-scale farmers and pastoralists knowledge and experience of coping with climatic extremes and uncertainty has been largely overlooked in climate change adaptation planning efforts.
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    Infrastructure and climate change: impacts and adaptations for the Zambezi River Valley

    United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2013
    The African Development Bank has called for US$40 billion per year over the coming decades to be provided to African countries to address development issues directly related to climate change. This study addresses a key component of these issues, the effect of climate change on the road infrastructure of Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia, all located within the Zambezi River Basin.
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    The Hunger And Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI 2012)

    Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index, 2013
    The 2012 HANCI report finds that low income countries like Malawi and Madagascar and lower middle income Guatemala, are leading the charge against hunger and undernutrition, whilst economic powerhouses such as India and Nigeria are failing some of their most vulnerable citizens. Key findings include:
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    Moving women out of poverty through the development of small fish processing enterprises in Malawi

    Global Forum on Agricultural Research, 2012
    Malawi is one of the countries in Africa which is highly dependent on fish as a source of animal protein. Malawi produces about 70,000 tons of fish annually from its lakes, rivers and swamps. The fishing industry supports the livelihoods of 1.5 mill people in Malawi and contributes about 4% to the national GDP.
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    Malaria infection during pregnancy: intrauterine growth retardation and preterm delivery in Malawi

    Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1999
    In sub-Saharan Africa, malaria infection in pregnancy contributes to low birth weight through intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) and preterm delivery (PTD). It was hypothesized that malaria-associated PTD and IUGR have differing etiologies due to timing of infection.

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