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Vulnerability to climate change and adaptation strategies of local communities in Malawi: experiences of women fish-processing groups in the Lake Chilwa Basin
Earth System Dynamics, 2016In recent years, research on climate change and human security has received much attention among policy makers and academia alike.DocumentWhy women farmers are left out of the programs. Lessons learned. Evaluation of Norway's bilateral agricultural support to food security
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2013Norway’s Bilateral Agricultural Support to Food Security 2005-2011 was reviewed in 2012-2013. This Lessons Learned document was prepared as a continuation of that review. Its purpose is to identify lessons learned regarding women’s rights and gender1 issues in the projects/programmes2 reviewed, in order to achieve more gender equality in Norwegian-funded agricultural programmes.DocumentThe Marital Immigrant. Land, and Agricultue: A Malawian Case Study
2010The central and southern regions of Malawi predominantly follow matrilineal succession and inheritance and practice uxorilocal marriages. Women, rather than men, own the primary land rights.DocumentManagement for adaptation to climate change. Mid-term review of a project implemented by Total Land Care, Malawi
Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2012The Management for Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) project in Malawi is implemented by Total Land Care (TLC) with funding from the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Malawi and a 5 years time frame from 2008 to mid 2013.DocumentGender analysis of a nationwide cropping system trial survey in Malawi
African Studies Quarterly, 2002A nationwide trial comparing legume cropping systems to fertilised and unfertilised maize controls was implemented in the 1998-99 cropping season. Complementarily, extension agents conducted a socioeconomic survey of the farmers involved in the trial, focusing particularly on gender issues.DocumentPolicy and Institutional Framework Review of the fisheries sector in Malawi
Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2008This paper presents issues for consideration in the development of a proposal for possible funding to address the policy and institutional framework for the fisheries sector in Malawi. It is based on consultations with officials from the Department of Fisheries (DoF), donor agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), district level officials and fishing communities in Mangochi district.DocumentAccess to land, growth and poverty reduction in Malawi
Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2004Malawi 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.DocumentEmpowering women through livelihoods orientated agricultural service provision: a consideration of evidence from southern Africa
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2008From 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?DocumentHousehold access to microcredit and children’s food security in rural Malawi: a gender perspective
Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2008Using 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.DocumentWomen and food crises: how US food aid policies can better support their struggles. A discussion paper
Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2007Over 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.Pages
