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Averting 'New Variant Famine' in Southern Africa: building food-secure livelihoods with AIDS-affected young people
Economic and Social Research Council, UK, 2009Numerous reports have linked AIDS’ impacts on young people and their long term food insecurity, through, for instance, orphans’ failure to inherit property and resources; inability to retain rights to land which they are too young or inexperienced to farm; or interruption of intergenerational knowledge transfer following parental deaths.DocumentThe winds of change: sustainable livelihoods and food security in cassava farming systems in Malawi
Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2000Agriculture in Malawi accounts for 35% of GDP, more than 90% of exchange foreign earnings and provides employment to the 92% of the population that is rural.DocumentAgriculture in urban planning: generating livelihoods and food security
International Development Research Centre, 2009This report, by researchers working in urban agriculture (UA), examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanising global South, the book examines the contribution of UA and city farming to livelihoods and food security.DocumentFarming trees, banishing hunger: how an agroforestry programme is helping smallholders in Malawi to grow more food and improve their livelihoods
World Agroforestry Centre, 2008Lack 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.DocumentFocus on... A green revolution for Africa
New Agriculturalist, 2008Forty 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.DocumentRegional Evidence Building Agenda (REBA) Thematic Briefs
Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme, 2008This 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.DocumentWomen and food crises: how US food aid policies can better support their struggles
ActionAid International, 2007Women are often at the centre of food crises and are disproportionately affected by hunger, yet their central role in providing solutions is often overlooked. This discussion paper lays out some of the key issues in modern food crises, discusses the role of food aid in addressing them and explores opportunities for engaging women more actively in food aid policy.DocumentUsing empirical information in the era of HIV/AIDS to inform mitigation and rural development strategies: selected results from African country studies
The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 2005This study looks at the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the socioeconomic impacts in Sub-Saharan Africa on the agricultural sector.DocumentThe differential effects on rural income and poverty during a decade of radical change in Malawi
BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004This paper reports on a study of rural families in a densely populated area of Malawi, tracking how families have moved up or down in relation to income and welfare from 1986 to 1997. The timing of the study was significant, as major liberalisation policies affecting small-holders were put into place from 1987 onwards.DocumentRegional issues in food security for southern Africa
Forum for Food Security in Southern Africa, ODI, 2003This short brief presents food security policy issues for southern Africa that arise at the regional, or supra-national, level.