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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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    Ex-ante evaluation of cassava research for development in Malawi: a farm household and random utility modeling approach

    AgEcon Search, 2010
    In Malawi, net-food-buying households in food deficit areas are experiencing poor access because of inadequate supplies and lack of purchasing power. This paper evaluates the impact of a cassava research for development project in Malawi prior to its implementation, aiming at unlocking the potential of cassava in response to the global food crisis.
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    Using Mobile Phones to Improve Child Nutrition Surveillance in Malawi

    2009
    Malawi’s current system for child nutrition data collection, the Integrated Nutritional and Food Security Surveillance (INFSS) system uses a random sample of children visiting growth monitoring clinics (GMCs) throughout the country to measure trends in child nutrition.
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    The Quest for Food Security in Malawi: Policy vs Practice

    Bunda College of Agriculture, 2000
    According to the Malawi Vision 2020 report, the country aspires to have adequate and safe food for all members of the households at all times of the year by the year 2020. It is expected that this will be achieved through own production and using cash to buy food from the markets.
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    Achieving food security: id21 insights, issue 61

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Halving hunger and extreme poverty by 2015 is the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG). However, persistent hunger is still prevalent worldwide, slowing progress towards all other MDGs, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
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    HIV/AIDS and food security in Malawi

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2003
    In December 2002/January 2003, the World Food Programme commissioned a study to provide an analysis of the linkages between HIV/AIDS and food security in Malawi. It also aimed to build an analysis of the linkages between HIV/AIDS and profile of the people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) particularly focusing on the urban populations.
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    Investing in communities: the benefits and costs of building resilience for food security in Malawi

    Tearfund, 2010
    This study presents a community-based cost benefit analysis of a disaster risk reduction (DRR) and food security programme in a Malawian agricultural community.

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