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    Too poor to be efficient?: impacts of the targeted fertilizer subsidy programme in Malawi on farm plot level input use, crop choice and land productivity

    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2010
    This report assesses the agricultural cropping systems in central and southern Malawi, and seeks to identify the effects of the Malawian farm input subsidy programme (FISP) on those systems. The paper demonstrates the following findings:
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    Impacts of the fertilizer subsidy programme in Malawi: targeting, household perceptions and preferences

    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2010
    This report presents findings from a household survey conducted in Malawi in 2009. The survey was intended to examine the administrative targeting efficiency of a fertiliser subsidy programme (MoAFS). The main new evidence in this study is related to the extent of secondary markets for coupons and cheap fertilisers.
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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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    Child Labour Baseline Study

    Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, 2003
    Malawi is one of the countries selected to implement the International Labour Organisation/International Programme on the Elimination of Child’s Labour (ILO/IPEC’s) “Regional Programme on prevention, withdraw and rehabilitation of children engaged in hazardous work in commercial agriculture in Africa”.
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    Why might clinicians in Malawi not offer HIV testing to their patients?

    Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2010
    HIV testing may be a cost-effective means of reducing transmission rates. Since Malawi is severely impacted by HIV/AIDS and detection of infected persons is sub-optimal, reasons clinicians might not offer HIV testing to their patients should be identified. This report aims to identify common reasons clinicians in Malawi might not offer HIV testing.
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    Removal of excess fluorides from drinking water by Mulanje bauxite

    University of Malawi - The Polytechnic, 2007
    In Malawi Fluorosis is common in places such as Nkhotakota, Karonga, some parts of Nsanje, Chikwawa, Machinga, Mangochi Sajidu and Lilongwe Msonda.Malawi has not attempted to undertake drinking water defluoridation seriously in the fluorosis endemic areas.The main objective of this study was toinstitute defluoridation technologies in the affected areas.
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    Effects of feeding single ingredient supplemental feed on growth feed utilization, plankton abundance and survival of Tilapia Rendalli, Boulenger, in ponds

    Bunda College of Agriculture, 2007
    A number of Malawian fish farmers apply manure and supplements to their fish, but it is rare to use combinations as procurement of these inputs may be difficult from off farm sources. Supplemental feeds are intended to support the natural food available in the ponds that might limit the growth of the fish.The objectives of the study were:
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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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    Repositioning family planning through community based distribution agents in Malawi

    Malawi Medical Journal, 2010
    This paper documents the results of a project for distributing family planning services in Malawi. The Malawian Government has been trying to revitalise family planning through repositioning. Therefore, between 1999 and 2003, the Government implemented a project that aimed at increasing the contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) for modern family planning methods.
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    Gender and media progress study: Southern Africa

    Gender Links, Johannesburg, 2010
    This report monitors the relation between gender issues and media content in 14 Southern African countries, providing quantitative, sex-disaggregated data on media coverage and topics. In addition, it examines the underlying gender dynamics within the institutional structures of the media. The key findings of the paper are as follows:

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