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UN Agencies respond to growing food insecurity in southern Africa
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) are expanding their operations in response to growing food insecurity as a result of poor harvests across much of southern Africa. There will be an estimated 27.4 million food-insecure people in the region...
Angola - Botswana - Madagascar - Malawi - Mozambique - Namibia
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Policy brief/paper
The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa
The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa (NAFSN) launched in May 2012 under the auspices of the G8 aims to create the conditions that will allow the African countries concerned to improve agricultural productivity and develop their agrifood sector by attracting more private investment in agriculture. The...
Benin - Burkina Faso - Côte d'Ivoire - Ethiopia - Ghana - Malawi - Mozambique - Nigeria - Senegal - United Republic of Tanzania
2015 - European Parliament
Article
Public procurement in Africa benefitting family farmers and schools
Innovative partnership operational in five countries
10 March 2015, Rome - An innovative partnership spanning five African countries is providing important lessons on how governments can procure food for public institutions, such as schools, directly from small-scale family farmers. Modelled on Brazil's achievements in fighting hunger and poverty, the Purchase from Africans for Africa programme (PAA...
Brazil - Ethiopia - Malawi - Mozambique - Niger - Senegal
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Policy brief/paper
Africa’s smallholders adapting to climate change
The need for national governments and international climate finance to support women producers
Climate change is undermining the ability of African nations to feed themselves. Women smallholder producers are on the front line of dealing with the impacts, but are not first in line for international climate finance. Wealthy countries have committed to helping countries in Africa to adapt to climate change, but...
Ethiopia - Ghana - Malawi - Mozambique - Nigeria - South Africa - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia
2015 - Oxfam International
Policy brief/paper
Gender and rural development brief
East and Southern Africa
The countries of East and Southern Africa have made major commitments to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment, and they are starting to pay off. A number of countries have achieved substantial progress towards gender parity in primary school enrolment. Nearly all countries have adopted quota systems requiring women’s participation...
Angola - Botswana - Burundi - Comoros - Eritrea - Ethiopia - Kenya - Lesotho - Madagascar - Malawi - Mauritius - Mozambique - Namibia - Rwanda - Seychelles - South Africa - South Sudan - Eswatini - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2015 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Blog article
Poverty reduction for smallholder farmers, Brazilian-style: Can it work in Africa?
Pilot project in Malawi
Brazil has achieved impressive results in reducing poverty with “Fomento,” a set of large-scale, government-run social programs targeting smallholder farmers. Rural poverty in Brazil dropped dramatically from 51.4 percent in 2002 to 29.1 percent in 2011; during the same period, family farmers’ incomes also grew by 50 percent. When an...
Brazil - Malawi
2015 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Working paper
Smallholders’ Land Ownership and Access in Sub-Saharan Africa
A new landscape?
While scholars agree on the importance of land rental markets for structural transformation in rural areas, evidence on the extent and nature of their operation, including potential obstacles to their improved functioning, remains limited. This study uses household-level data from six countries to start filling this gap and derive substantive...
Ethiopia - Malawi - Niger - Nigeria - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2015 - World Bank Group
Report
The 2015-2016 El Niño event
Expected impact on food security and main response scenarios in East and Southern Africa
El Niño is a periodic climate phenomenon defined by anomalously warm sea surface temperatures in the eastern and central tropical Pacific Ocean which affect local weather worldwide and generally leads to increased drought risk at global level. In 2015, since July a strong El Niño is being observed with increasing...
Angola - Eritrea - Ethiopia - Kenya - Malawi - Namibia - Somalia - South Africa - South Sudan - Zimbabwe
2015 - European Commission
Newsletter
Dimitra Newsletter: Improving nutrition and banking on rural youth
The newsletter opens with several articles that address issues that are key to improving nutrition. In Chad, FAO is working with administrative and traditional authorities to implement an innovative approach aimed at increasing women’s access to fertile land, a winning formula for improving the livelihoods of rural households. Another initiative...
Chad - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ethiopia - Guinea - Malawi - Niger
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Magazine article
Production diversity and dietary diversity in smallholder farm households
This paper tries to respond the question of how to make agriculture and food systems more nutrition-sensitive. Many of the undernourished people in Africa and Asia are small-scale subsistence farmers. Diversifying production on these farms is often perceived as a promising strategy to improve dietary quality and diversity. This hypothesis is...
Ethiopia - Indonesia - Kenya - Malawi
2015 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Report
Community Seed Production
Due to this underlying need, FAO, in collaboration with ICRISAT, ICARDA, and CIAT, organized an expert consultation workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in December 2013 on Community Seed Production. The workshop’s objective was to create a roadmap and develop strategies for enhancing effective uptake and implementation of CSP in developing...
Afghanistan - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Ecuador - Ethiopia - India - Malawi - Nepal - Peru - Uganda
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
Climate change adaptation and neglected crops in Malawi
Neglected crops like cowpea, finger millet and yam are important in mitigating climate change in Malawi. This is the message and the main topic of this video. Mr Mwendo Phiri. Team leader, for the Treaty’s Benefit-sharing Fund project PR 219 in Malawi, explains that this is a two-year project that...
Malawi
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Policy brief/paper
Evidence to support climate change adaptation in Lesotho, Malawi and Swaziland
In southern Africa, the predicted 2°C rise in temperature will destabilize farming systems. Coping mechanisms, livelihood strategies and the cost of adaptation options for smallholder farmers are not sufficiently understood in the region because the majority of research is focused on ecological assessment and identifying the vulnerability of households. In...
Eswatini - Lesotho - Malawi
2015 - Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN)
Policy brief/paper
The Impact of Social Cash Transfer Programmes on Community Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa
This One-Pager describes key findings of a four-year research project, From Protection to Production (PtoP), which analysed the impact of social cash transfer programmes in sub-Saharan Africa. The qualitative studies specifically explored impacts on household economic decision-making, the local economy and social networks. They also examined how the design and...
Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Lesotho - Malawi - Zimbabwe
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Policy brief/paper
Seed systems smallholder farmers use
Seed can be an important entry point for promoting productivity, nutrition and resilience among smallholder farmers. While investments have primarily focused on strengthening the formal sector, this article documents the degree to which the informal sector remains the core for seed acquisition, especially in Africa. Conclusions drawn from a uniquely...
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Kenya - Malawi - South Sudan - Zimbabwe
2015
Book part
Introduction to conceptual issues related to agriculture, food security, and nutrition
Smallholder agriculture is the mainstay of Malawi’s economy. Its importance for livelihoods cannot be overstated. 94 percent of rural residents and 38 percent of urban residents engage in agriculture to some extent (Jones, Shrinivas, and Bezner-Kerr 2014), the vast majority as smallholder farmers with landholdings of less than one hectare....
Malawi
2015 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Book
In Mapping the linkages between agriculture, food security and nutrition in Malawi
Smallholder agriculture is the mainstay of Malawi’s economy. Its importance for livelihoods cannot be overstated. 94 percent of rural residents and 38 percent of urban residents engage in agriculture to some extent (Jones, Shrinivas, and Bezner-Kerr 2014), the vast majority as smallholder farmers with landholdings of less than one hectare....
Malawi
2015 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Blog article
How Farming Families Benefit from Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture
Efforts to enhance smallholder farmers’ involvement in agricultural markets under the World Food Programme (WFP) Purchase for Progress (P4P) programme have led to a variety of nutrition-sensitive activities. In many rural communities where P4P and partners work, these context- and country-specific efforts have begun to increase farming families’ access to nutritious...
Afghanistan - Ethiopia - Guatemala - Honduras - Malawi - Mali - Rwanda - Zambia
2015 - World Food Programme (WFP) Purchase for Progress (P4P)
Policy brief/paper
Review of food and agricultural policies in Malawi
This report provides an in-depth analysis of the effects of selected food and agricultural policies in Malawi over the period 2005-2013 and carefully examines: the effects of policies and market performance on price incentives for producers, consumers and other agents in six key agricultural value chains; the level and composition...
Malawi
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Gender mainstreaming to support agricultural development for improved livelihoods
Best practices in Eastern and Southern Africa
In December 2012, the programme on “Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Legume cropping systems for food security in Eastern and Southern Africa” (SIMLESA) commissioned a study to compile case studies of good practices in gender mainstreaming in the areas covered by the programme. This study was a result of an action point...
Ethiopia - Kenya - Malawi - Mozambique - United Republic of Tanzania
2015 - Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA)
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