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How coffee value chains foster climate-resilient livelihoods
The FAO-Slow Food Coffee Coalition experience
This document introduces how agroforestry coffee improves resilience and ensures livelihoods in the context of climate risk and access to markets. Our intention is to reflect on the benefits and constraints of agroforestry coffee production, good practices for facilitating a fair and sustainable value chain, and what is needed for...
Malawi - Uganda
2024 - FAO
دراسة حالة
Diagnostic of gender and age norms in financial inclusion A pilot study in five districts of Malawi
This report presents an investigation into how social norms impact rural women’s and youth’s ability to access and use formal financial products and services in Malawi. It confirms the importance of considering social norms when designing interventions to improve women’s and youth’s economic empowerment. It also offers concrete recommendations for...
Malawi
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
مقالة
Fields of contestation and contamination: Maize seeds, agroecology and the (de)coloniality of agriculture in Malawi and South Africa
Farmer-managed seed systems and the conservation of agrobiodiversity are increasingly recognized as important components of food and seed sovereignty. In contrast, hybrid, genetically modified (GM), and, increasingly, gene-edited crops continue to be promoted by Green Revolution proponents as a “climate smart” package that includes fertilizers, pesticides, purchased seeds, and links...
Malawi - South Africa
2024
مادة سمعية
Rural Malawians on building back after Cyclone Freddy – Episode 59
In March 2023, Cyclone Freddy swept across Malawi, devastating a country already struggling with hunger and poverty. But a year on, hope for a brighter future is returning to its farms.
On this episode, you'll hear directly from the rural Malawians who are building back stronger with IFAD's support. Our Country...
Malawi
2024 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
موجز في السياسات/ وثيقة في السياسات
National Agroecology Strategies in Eastern and Southern Africa
Lighthouses for food system transformation
This document sheds light on the ongoing efforts in Eastern and Southern Africa to develop National Agroecology Strategies (NASs), aiming to transform agri-food systems through the promotion of agroecological production practices, and the development of markets, value chains, and consumer demand. The brief offers an unique insight into policy advancements...
Kenya - Malawi - Rwanda - South Africa - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2024 - Biovision Foundation
مادة سمعية
Farms. Food. Future. Rural Malawians on building back after Cyclone Freddy
In March 2023, Cyclone Freddy swept across Malawi, devastating a country already struggling with hunger and poverty. But a year on, hope for a brighter future is returning to its farms.
On this episode, you'll hear directly from the rural Malawians who are building back stronger with IFAD's support. Our...
Malawi
2024 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
دليل
Young changemakers
Scaling agroecology using video in Africa and India
The publication offers a rich diversity of perspectives and insights from real-life experiences of 42 inspiring teams of youths in Africa and India who are blazing a trail as private extension and advisory service providers promoting agroecology through farmer-to-farmer learning videos. Each of the deeply compelling stories presented in this...
Benin - Cameroon - Egypt - India - Kenya - Malawi - Morocco - Rwanda - Senegal - Tunisia - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia
2024 - Access Agriculture
مقالة
Inside-out strategic coupling for smallholder market integration – Mango production in Malawi as a test case
Starting from the observation that value chain research has informed much of agricultural development interventions in recent decades, this paper identifies five key challenges to current agricultural development policies in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): access to finance, infrastructure, land tenure, local linkages and knowledge transfer. Based on this review,...
Malawi
2023
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
How the EU supports food systems change: Lessons from Malawi
Even before the EU Farm to Fork Strategy launched in 2020, the EU took action to make food systems more resilient to shocks. But did the EU’s ambitions bear fruit? Cecilia D'Alessandro and Paulina Bizzotto Molina break down lessons learned from their evaluation of the EU’s support to food systems abroad,...
Malawi
2023 - ECDPM - The Center for Africa-Europe center
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Young entrepreneurs in South Africa get hands-on training in smart technology
Four young Entrepreneurs for Rural Access (ERA) – comprising two ERA teams and two individual ERAs – who were selected through the Young Entrepreneur Challenge Fund from Limpopo and Eastern Cape, received a 3-day training in digital tools and technology, 3 to 5 October 2023 in Polokwane, South Africa.
Malawi
2023 - Access Agriculture
تقرير
Rethinking inorganic fertiliser subsidies
In many parts of southern Africa, soil quality is poor due to weathering and low nutrient content. Inorganic fertilizers are often necessary, but their effectiveness can be limited. Malawi’s fertilizer subsidy program isn’t achieving food security goals due to declining soil health.
Solutions like crop diversification, organic matter addition, and fertilizers...
Malawi
2023 - Clim-eat
مقالة
Meeting Malawi’s Slow Food Coffee Communities
Malawi, a small country in Southeast Africa, is gaining recognition as an emerging player in the global coffee industry. Blessed with fertile soil, favorable climatic conditions and a rich agricultural heritage, Malawi has steadily established itself as a producer of high-quality coffee beans. Today the coffee industry plays a crucial...
Malawi
2023 - Slow Food
تقرير
Achieving Sustainable Food Systems in a Global Crisis
This report summarizes the evidence-based and costed country roadmaps for effective public interventions to transform agriculture and food systems in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria in a way that ends hunger, makes diets healthier and more affordable, improves the productivity and incomes of small-scale producers and their households, and mitigates and...
Ethiopia - Malawi - Nigeria
2023 - International Institute for Sustainable Development
وثيقة عمل
Gender assessment study for improved fruit tree and Macadamia nuts value chains in Mzimba and Kasungu districts of Malawi
The growing national and export markets for improved fruit (including mango) and macadamia nuts in Malawi could offer promising opportunities for smallholder farmers if they are better integrated (with appropriate resources and training) within their respective value chains. While the macadamia value chain is highly structured, export oriented and dominated...
Malawi
2023 - CIFOR-ICRAF
تقرير
Empowering women in small-scale fisheries for sustainable food systems
This report presents the design and results of a baseline survey with respect to a project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) focusing on empowering women in small-scale fisheries. The project supports the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the...
Ghana - Malawi - Sierra Leone - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Empowering women in small-scale fisheries for sustainable food systems
Consolidated baseline report: Ghana, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania
This report presents the design and results of a baseline survey with respect to a project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) focusing on empowering women in small-scale fisheries. The project supports the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the...
Ghana - Malawi - Sierra Leone - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
مقالة إخبارية
Access Agriculture provides insights to help shape the future of Farmer Field Schools
At the Global Forum on the Future of Farmer Field Schools (FFS) for Sustainable Agrifood Systems organised by FAO, 14-16 June 2023, in Blantyre, Malawi, Access Agriculture shared valuable insights from its innovative digital learning approach that combines adult education principles with quality audio-visuals, multiple digital technologies, and a network...
Malawi
2023 - Access Agriculture
مقالة
Monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) in farmer field schools on food security and adaptation to climate change: pilot testing of a framework in Malawi
The farmer field school (FFS) has been promoted as an approach for educating farmers on making adaptive farming decisions. In Malawi, the FFS has been used to enhance food security within the context of adaptation to climate change. Monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) extends the learning cycle from the core...
Malawi
2023 - Food Security
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Upskilling Community Skills Development Centre teachers in Malawi
Fourteen representatives from five Community Skills Development Centres (CSDCs) participated recently in a hands-on training session organised by Access Agriculture in Zomba, Malawi, as part of an AFC/GOPA consulting group project under the GIZ-Empowering Youth in Agribusiness (EYA) initiative.
Malawi
2023 - Access Agriculture
مقالة إخبارية
Malawi: Equal work, unequal earnings
A recent case study in Malawi explores the trading roles of women in fisheries in quantitative and qualitative terms.
Women play important roles in fish food systems, especially post-harvest processing and trading of fish products. However, gendered inequities in fish food systems are common around the globe, limiting livelihood benefits for...
Malawi
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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