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Searching with a thematic focus on Food security in Malawi

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    What lessons can be learned from the Starter Packs Programme in Malawi?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    In the late 1990s, the Malawian government tried to tackle extensive, chronic food insecurity by increasing agricultural productivity. The Starter Packs Programme was an initiative that provided free packs of seeds, legumes and fertiliser to farmers. What lessons can be learned from this programme, and its subsequent demise?
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    Empowering women through livelihoods orientated agricultural service provision: a consideration of evidence from southern Africa

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2008
    From the 1990s onwards, a shift towards participatory and bottom-up approaches to agricultural development has meant improved livelihoods for women. How have agricultural extension services been designed to incorporate an effective understanding of women’s livelihoods? What have been the gains? And what are the policy blind spots?
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    Why do community members volunteer in Malawi?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Many people in developing countries take time to support their communities through volunteering, despite being burdened by poverty and household responsibilities. There has been little analysis of the motivations of community volunteers in developing countries. Understanding why people volunteer is crucial to recognising and supporting the work they do.
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    Household access to microcredit and children’s food security in rural Malawi: a gender perspective

    Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2008
    Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women’s relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to microcredit, plays a role in children’s food security.
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    Import/export parity price analysis

    Famine Early Warning Systems Network, 2008
    This manual focuses on the role parity prices play in food security and early warning analysis. Parity prices are used to compare prices of a commodity in two different locations, when the two locations are in different countries.
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    Malawi food security strategy

    Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2007
    This paper presents the USAID food security programming strategy for Malawi. Its purpose is to provide guidance to current and potential USAID Mission food security partners on how to design effective food security projects for the period FY 2008-2014 and to improve programmatic and resource integration.
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    Farming trees, banishing hunger: how an agroforestry programme is helping smallholders in Malawi to grow more food and improve their livelihoods

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2008
    Lack of food security in rural Malawi is directly linked to declining soil fertility, with nitrogen being the main limiting factor. However, protein and vitamin deficiencies due to low milk and fruit production and consumption, and a lack of fuelwood to cook maize and other foods are factors which also present significant problems.
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    Focus on... A green revolution for Africa

    New Agriculturalist, 2008
    Forty years after the Asian Green Revolution , the spotlight has now turned on African agriculture. Increasing attention is being paid to the need for greater investment in African agriculture and key organisations are pushing for a New Green Revolution in Africa.
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    Fertiliser subsidies and sustainable agricultural growth in Africa: current issues and empirical evidence from Malawi, Zambia, and Kenya

    The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2008
    The role of input subsidies in stimulating growth and addressing food security and poverty alleviation objectives has re-emerged as an important  debate in agricultural policy.
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    Regional Evidence Building Agenda (REBA) Thematic Briefs

    Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2008
    This series of briefs provides a regional synthesis of findings of 12 thematic studies and 20 individual case studies of social transfer schemes undertaken by the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme (RHVP) in southern Africa.

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