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    Policy and Institutional Framework Review of the fisheries sector in Malawi

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2008
    This paper presents issues for consideration in the development of a proposal for possible funding to address the policy and institutional framework for the fisheries sector in Malawi. It is based on consultations with officials from the Department of Fisheries (DoF), donor agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), district level officials and fishing communities in Mangochi district.
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    Agricultural growth and poverty reduction in Malawi: past performance and recent trends

    2008
    The agricultural sector continues to be the most important sector in the Malawian economy. It accounts for 39 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), 85 per cent of the labour force and generates about 83 per cent of foreign exchange earnings. National surveys estimate that crop production accounts for 74 per cent of all rural incomes.
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    Resurrecting the vestiges of a developmental state in Malawi: reflections and lessons from the 2005/2006 fertiliser subsidy programme

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2007
    This paper explores how the experiences leading to the adoption and successful implementation of the 2005/2006 fertiliser subsidy programme can be exploited as the basis for churning out a viable framework for a developmental state in Malawi - broadly understood as the state that seriously attempts to deploy its administrative and political resources to the task of economic development.
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    Hedging Food Security through Winter Cultivation: The Agronomy of Dimba Cultivation in Malawi

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2006
    Until the introduction of the fertiliser subsidy programme in the 2005/2006 growing season, food insecurity was for close to two consecutive decades a characteristic feature of a great bulk of Malawians both in urban and rural areas.
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    Agricultural Marketing Liberalisation and the Plight of the Poor in Malawi

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2005
    Since 1981 Malawi has implemented several economic policy reforms under the structural adjustment programmes. Most of the policies targeted the agricultural sector including deregulation of agricultural marketing activities, removal of fertilizer subsidies, devaluation of currency, liberalisation of agricultural prices and liberalisation of special crop production.
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    Sources of technical efficiency among smallholder maize farmers in southern Malawi

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2007
    Central to economic activities in Malawi, the agricultural sector accounts for 35 per cent of real gross product. It generates more than 90 per cent of the country’s foreign exchange earnings and provides paid and self-employment to 92 per cent of the population.
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    Access to land, growth and poverty reduction in Malawi

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2004
    Malawi has pursued an agricultural-led development strategy since its independence in 1964. This agricultural-led development strategy was based on the promotion of a dual agricultural system comprising estate (large-scale) production mainly for cash (export) crops and smallholder agricultural production mainly to support the food security needs of the population.
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    Seeds and subsidies: the political economy of input programmes in Malawi

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2010
    The configuration of maize politics in Malawi has created a strong actor network, which include major donor aid agencies, which favours international commercial players and their genetic material in the seed sector over local producers, and local varieties.
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    HIV/AIDS, Agriculture and Food Security in Malawi

    2001
    This paper intends to provide input to a 'Think Tank' involving scientists, policy makers and development workers from key organisations.
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    Yield of maize as affected by fertiliser application practices

    Bunda College of Agriculture, 2000
    Maize is the staple cereal crop to over 80% of the Malawian population and is grown on 75 to 85 % of the arable land. Farmers in Malawi grow hybrid, composite and local maize varieties. The current average yield for subsistence farmers is about 1.3t/ha due to a number of factors such as low soil fertility, pests and diseases, droughts.

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