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    Gender analysis of a nationwide cropping system trial survey in Malawi

    African Studies Quarterly, 2002
    A nationwide trial comparing legume cropping systems to fertilised and unfertilised maize controls was implemented in the 1998-99 cropping season. Complementarily, extension agents conducted a socioeconomic survey of the farmers involved in the trial, focusing particularly on gender issues.
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    Zero hunger:transforming evidence-based success into effective change

    Action Against Hunger, 2011
    This briefing paper, published by Action Against Hunger, seeks to understand why and how countries like Brazil, Peru, Mozambique, Malawi, and Bangladesh have managed to reduce undernutrition, while others have not.
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    Agricultural Growth and Investment Options for Poverty Reduction in Malawi

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
    Malawi has experienced modest economic growth over the last decade and a half. However, agricultural growth has been particularly erratic, and while the incidence of poverty has declined, it still remains high.
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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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    Study to inform the selection of an appropriate wage rate for public works programmes in Malawi

    2004
    The Malawi Government, with assistance from the Department for International Development (DfID) of the Government of the United Kingdom, is implementing an Inception Phase for the National Safety Nets Programme (NSNP). The NSNP constitutes Pillar III of the Malawi Poverty Reduction Strategy (MPRS).
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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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