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    Cash transfers boost the local economy in rural Malawi

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Cash transfers are increasingly being used, instead of in-kind transfers such as food aid, in response to droughts and other emergencies. As well as allowing poor people to make their own choices about how to improve their situation, cash transfers can bring widespread benefits to the regional economy.
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    The Malawi fertiliser subsidy programme: politics and pragmatism

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2008
    Food insecurity in Malawi has become endemic, with around 70-80% of rural households short of self-produced staple foods for four to five months of the year. This Future Agricultures brief reviews the Malawian government's Fertiliser Subsidy Programme (FSP), introduced in 2005/2006 as a means of attempting to tackle the ever-pressing food crisis.
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    Women and food crises: how US food aid policies can better support their struggles. A discussion paper

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2007
    Over the last few decades, food crises have become a distressingly common phenomena. Women are often at the centre of these emergencies, though the disproportionate impact of hunger on women is too often hidden within statistics, similarly, the role of women in providing solutions to these crises is also often overlooked.
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    Famine in Malawi: causes and consequences

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2007
    Reports of a devastating famine in Malawi first surfaced as rumors whispered in rural areas in the country around October 2001. However, little was done by way of action, despite warnings from expert civil society groups.
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    Sharing experiences of cash transfers in southern Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Cash transfers are increasingly popular with governments, donors, and non-governmental organisations as a way to support vulnerable groups. This approach to social protection takes many different forms. The agencies and organisations that implement such programmes can learn from each other’s experiences.
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    Bunda College of Agriculture

      The college aims to advance and promote knowledge , skills, self-reliance and sound character for:
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    Food assistance programming in the context of HIV

    Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2007
    This guide from the FANTA project outlines key steps for integrating food assistance and nutrition into HIV programmes.
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    Food security in southern Africa: changing the trend?

    Overseas Development Institute, 2007
    This paper reviews progress in addressing widespread chronic food insecurity since the crisis of 2001–03. It assesses changes regarding the understanding of the ‘problem’, to how it has been incorporated into policy, and how programming has changed to align with the stated policy objectives and underlying analysis.
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    Assessing household food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Reducing hunger in developing countries depends on reliable estimates of food insecurity. Using data about how much food individual households acquire may be a more accurate way to measure dietary quantity and quality than national level data.
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    Safety nets: reducing risk and encouraging development

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Providing ‘safety nets’ during food shortages involves distributing food or cash. This is a common short-term relief strategy to food shortages. Many economists claim that these discourage economic development, but safety nets actually encourage development when part of a comprehensive social protection strategy.

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