Search
Searching in Malawi
Showing 231-240 of 1177 results
Pages
- Document
The Green Belt Initiative and Land Grabs in Malawi
Future Agricultures Consortium, 2012FAC Policy Brief 55by Blessings Chinsinga and Michael ChasukwaDocumentSocial protection for food security: A report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition
2012Social protection has risen rapidly up the development policy agenda in the last decade. There is also a clear trend to making social protection, as well as food security, ‘rights-based’ rather than ‘discretionary’. Yet no clear consensus has so far emerged concerning many basic design choices and implementation of social protection policies and programs.DocumentDeveloping a climate-smart agriculture strategy at the country level: lessons from recent experience
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012This paper presents recent experiences of country level implementation of climate smart agriculture (CSA) to identify some key lessons to incorporate into ongoing CSA activities in developing countries.DocumentThe ways of maize: food, poverty, policy and the politics of meaning among the Chewa of Malawi
2011This study of Chewa people’s foodways traces the involvement of the Chewa people in global development politics and policy processes.DocumentRegional agricultural policy: priority policy issues and interventions
Southern African Development Community, 2012Guided by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Treaty of 1992, several SADC Protocols have been developed to guide, support and promote appropriate actions at regional and national levels towards the attainment of the SADC Common Agenda which promotes sustainable and equitable economic growth and socio-economic development in order to ensure poverty alleviation with the ultimate objecDocumentA risky climate for southern African hydro: assessing hydrological risks and consequences for Zambezi river basin dams
International Rivers Network, 2012This report gives an early warning about what southern Africa could be facing as countries contemplate plans for more large hydropower dams in a time of climate change.DocumentFinding a curriculum that works under trees: Literacy and health education for adolescent girls in rural Malawi
Development in Practice, 2007Non-formal education often represents a last chance for adolescent girls who do not attend school to receive some education to improve their health before they become mothers. This paper describes the development of a literacy and health education curriculum for adolescent girls in southern Malawi who will never enter formal schooling.DocumentEmerging Reality in Customary Land Tenure: The Case of Kachenga Village in Balaka District, Southern Malawi
2000Land is a source of food, employment and export earnings for many African countries. Apart from its economic importance, land also has a significant social value. Some sites are regarded as sacred and are treated with great respect as they may be associated with important events in the society's history, for example, its purported origins.DocumentThe Marital Immigrant. Land, and Agricultue: A Malawian Case Study
2010The central and southern regions of Malawi predominantly follow matrilineal succession and inheritance and practice uxorilocal marriages. Women, rather than men, own the primary land rights.