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Policy brief/paper
The impacts of combining agricultural and social protection interventions
What do we know and what else do we need to know?
This is the policy brief drawn from a longer review that analyses and summarizes impact evaluation findings that focus on the interaction between agricultural interventions (including rural extension services, rural development, natural resource management, access to markets, subsidized credit, investment grants, access to improved seeds and fertilizer subsidies), and social...
Kyrgyzstan - Lebanon - Lesotho - Malawi - Rwanda - Senegal - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Technical paper
Localized public investment and agricultural performance in Malawi
An econometric approach
Using panel data econometric techniques, this paper evaluates how public expenditure influences agricultural performance at the district level in Malawi by empirically estimating localized expenditure multipliers for the districts. The results of the analysis show that public expenditures in agriculture have generally positive but variable impacts on agricultural growth at...
Malawi
2017 - International Food Policy Research Institute
Working paper
Gender-differentiated impacts of tenure insecurity on agricultural performance in Malawi’s customary tenure systems
Many African countries rely on sporadic land transfers from customary to statutory domains to attract investment and improve agricultural performance. Data from 15,000 smallholders and 800 estates in Malawi allow exploring the long-term effects of such a strategy. The results suggest that (i) most estates are less productive than smallholders;...
Malawi
2017 - World Bank
Technical paper
Five years of the AAF’s technical assistance facility
Enhancing the food security impact of agri-business investments in Africa
To amplify the development impact of the African Agriculture Fund, the International Fund for Agricultural Development actively promoted a Technical Assistance Facility to work alongside its investments. Blending development finance with technical assistance can be a powerful tool to achieve business growth and development outcomes. After five years of implementation,...
Burkina Faso - Cameroon - Ethiopia - Madagascar - Malawi - Nigeria - Sierra Leone - South Africa - Zambia
2017 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Working paper
Impact of Malawi’s Farm Income Diversification Programme on household welfare
Empirical evidence from eleven districts
This study used cross sectional data from the government of Malawi’s Farm Income Diversification Programme (FIDP) to examine the impact of FIDP on household welfare. Total annual household income, food security, and the wealth status of households were used as measures of household welfare. A propensity score matching procedure was...
Malawi
2017 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Blog article
Fall army worm outbreak, a blow to prospects of recovery for southern Africa
New pest poses novel threat to region reeling from effects of consecutive droughts
A fall armyworm outbreak, the first emergence of the pest in southern Africa, is causing considerable crop damage in some countries. If the pest damage aggravates, it could dampen prospects for good crop harvests that is anticipated in the current farming season. Maize, a staple food in the region has...
Malawi - Mozambique - Namibia - South Africa - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Fact sheet
Understanding the adoption and application of conservation agriculture in southern Africa
The programme’s goals were to increase the food security of smallholder farm households in southern Africa and enhance their livelihoods while conserving and improving the natural resources used for agriculture. The focus of the programme was on developing productive farming systems for smallholder farmers who managed maize-based systems, based on...
Malawi - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2017 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Report
WFP Regional El Niño Situation Report
El Niño conditions have caused the lowest recorded rainfall between October and December across many regions of Southern Africa in at least 35 years. Short-term forecasts from January to March indicate the high probability of continuing below-normal rainfall in the south, signaling that this could become one of the worst...
Angola - Botswana - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Lesotho - Malawi - Mozambique - Namibia - South Africa - Eswatini - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2016 - World Food Programme (WFP)
Policy brief/paper
Labor adaptation to climate variability in Eastern Africa
As countries design climate change adaptation policies, it is important to understand how workers alter behavior in response to changes in temperature. Nonetheless, the impact of temperature on labor markets is poorly documented, especially in Africa. We address this gap by analyzing panel surveys of labor choices by sector, contractual...
Ethiopia - Malawi - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Technical paper
Understanding compliance in programs promoting conservation agriculture
Modeling a case study in Malawi
Land degradation and soil erosion have emerged as serious challenges to smallholder farmers throughout southern Africa. To combat these challenges, conservation agriculture (CA) is widely promoted as a sustainable package of agricultural practices. Despite the many potential benefits of CA, however, adoption remains low. Yet relatively little is known about...
Malawi
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Fact sheet
Africa’s commitment to end hunger by 2025
The Regional Initiative seeks to strengthen the programmes, mechanisms, capacity and delivery of actions needed to operationalize commitments to end hunger by 2025, and to support mapping exercises that identify gaps and determine requisite interventions to enhance policy dialogue on food security and nutrition, both at regional and country levels....
Angola - Chad - Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Malawi - Niger - Rwanda
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Fact sheet
The Africa Solidarity Trust Fund for Food Security
The Africa Solidarity Trust Fund (ASTF) is an innovative Africa-led fund to support Africa for African development initiatives. Its main goal is to strengthen food security across the continent by assisting countries and their regional organizations to eradicate hunger and malnutrition, eliminate rural poverty and manage natural resources in a...
Angola - Burkina Faso - Chad - Côte d'Ivoire - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ethiopia - Kenya - Malawi - Niger - Zimbabwe
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Statement
SADC consultative meeting on preparedness and response to the impact of El Niño on Agriculture, Food and Nutrition security in Southern Africa
The SADC Consultative Meeting on Preparedness and Response to the Impact of the 2015/16 El Niño on Agriculture and Food and Nutrition Security in Southern Africa was held from 25th to 26th February 2016 in Johannesburg, South Africa, with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...
Angola - Botswana - Lesotho - Madagascar - Malawi - Mauritius - Mozambique - Namibia - Seychelles - South Africa - Eswatini - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2016 - Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Report
What Will Become of Us: Voices from around the world on drought and El Nino
About 60 million people across Southern Africa and the Horn, Central America, and the Pacific face worsening hunger and poverty due to droughts and crop failures in 2014/5 that have been exacerbated by the El Niño weather system in 2015/6. This number is likely to rise. This short report gives...
El Salvador - Ethiopia - Malawi - Papua New Guinea
2016 - Oxfam International
Policy brief/paper
The local economy impacts of social cash transfers
A comparative analysis of seven sub-Saharan countries
This article presents findings on the local economy impacts of seven African country SCT programmes evaluated as part of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) “From Protection to Production” (PtoP) project. The countries are Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The PtoP project has facilitated expansion of...
Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Lesotho - Malawi - Zimbabwe
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
The effects of smallholder agricultural involvement on household food consumption and dietary diversity
Evidence from Malawi
This paper investigates how household agricultural involvement affects food consumption and dietary diversity in rural Malawi. Ceteris paribus, a 10 per cent increase in on-farm income share increases food consumption per capita by 2.9 per cent, calorie intake per capita per day by 1.7 per cent, and leads to small...
Malawi
2016 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Report
Productive impact of Malawi’s Social Cash Transfer Programme – midline report
A From Protection to Production (PtoP) report
This report evaluates the productive impact of the Malawi Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCTP). The report uses data collected from a randomized experimental design impact evaluation to analyse the impact of the SCTP on household decision-making over agricultural production, labour supply, the accumulation of private assets and other income generating...
Malawi
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Book
Agroecology: the bold future of farming in Africa
The 88 page illustrated book showcases 15 case studies, showing how agroecology benefits Africa in terms of food and nutrition, livelihoods, restoration of biodiversity, knowledge and innovation, and climate change resilience.
Leading experts in their fields explain how agroecology reforms food systems to promote better nutrition and health, especially among poor...
Burkina Faso - Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Malawi - Togo - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zimbabwe
2016 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) & Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM)
Case study
Integrating diverse grain legumes for increased land productivity on small farms in Malawi
Malawi is a small country located in southern Africa with only 119,000 km2 for a population of about 16.7 million people. With agriculture as the mainstay of the economy, Malawi’s high population density of 140 people/km2 requires that agricultural productivity and other ecosystem services must be optimized. As part of...
Malawi
2016
Policy brief/paper
Have market policies turned Malawi’s large-scale farmers into subsistence maize producers?
In the last two decades, food security policy in Malawi has focused on enhancing the maize productivity of smallholder farmers, primarily through the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) (Chirwa and Dorward 2013). While this has raised maize yields, production shocks, such as droughts and floods, continue to result in wide-spread...
Malawi
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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