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  Identifying opportunities for climate-smart agriculture investments in Africa

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011

  It is clear that, in the face of climate change, the agriculture sector in Africa is being called on to increase food production to meet the food demand for a growing population.
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  Community-based adaptation to climate change

  2009

  All communities have the right to contribute to climate adaptation strategies. This issue of Participatory Learning and Action was produced by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) to coincide with the 2009 COP 15 and surrounding events.
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  The private sector role in HIV/AIDS in the context of an expanded global response: expenditure trends in five sub-Saharan African countries

  Oxford Journals, 2011

  A relatively unexamined aspect of the global HIV response is the role of the private sector in financing HIV/AIDS services. This paper examines trends in private sector financing, management and resource consumption related to HIV/AIDS in five sub-Saharan African countries: Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia.
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  Life skills education and reproductive health education: preliminary findings from the non-biomedical interventions into HIV and AIDS study

  Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, 2011

  According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), life skills are defined as the abilities for adaptive and positive behaviours that enable individuals to effectively deal with demands and challenges of everyday life (WHO, 1993).
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  How do village women determine foetal status and foetal pose in Malawi?

  Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2010

  In Malawi, 80% of the population lives within 8 km radius of a health care facility. However, most facilities lack drugs, personnel and laboratory equipment. Due to poverty, people cannot afford private hospital services, hence resort to home-based healthcare. There is a lack of information on how pregnancy-related issues are managed at home.
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  Timing and uptake of ART during treatment for active tuberculosis in HIV co-infected adults in Malawi

  Ingenta, 2011

  Malawian policy to invite patients co-infected with tuberculosis (TB) and HIV to start antiretroviral therapy (ART) 2 months after initiating TB treatment changed recently; the new policy shortened the period to 2 weeks instead of 2 months.
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  The state, conservation and peasant response in colonial Malawi: some preliminary observations, 1920-1964

  Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, 2012

  Malimidwe (conservation) policies in colonial Malawi represented a threat to peasants. These policies interfered with their household economies and restricted local their autonomy. As a reaction, for the first time since the Chilembwe rising of 1915, peasants expressed their opposition against malimidwe programmes.
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  From settlement schemes to agricultural cooperatives: rethinking the settlement scheme strategy in Malawi's rural development programme

  Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, 2011

  Settlement schemes have been used by colonial and postcolonial governments to achieve social, economic and political objectives, such as stemming the drift of school leavers into towns, promoting economies of scale in agriculture, redistributing land to the landless, and promoting ethnic integration.
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  Has forest co-management in Malawi benefited the poor?

  Forestry Research Institute of Malawi, 2006

  This study uses household-level data from the Chimaliro and Liwonde forest reserves under the pilot forest co-management programme in Malawi to address the following questions:
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  Malawi's settlement schemes: rural towns that failed to take off

  Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, 2006

  In the late 1960s the Malawi government established irrigated settlement schemes throughout the country with the goal of promoting the production of rice for export to raise farmers' incomes. A supplementary objective was to promote the development of a sense of nationhood among people of different ethnic backgrounds settled on the schemes.

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