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Gendered aspirations and occupations among rural youth, in agriculture and beyond: A cross-regional perspective
Based on 25 case studies from the global comparative study ‘GENNOVATE: Enabling gender equality in agricultural and environmental innovation’, this paper explores rural young women’s and men’s occupational aspirations and trajectories in India, Mali, Malawi, Morocco, Mexico, Nigeria, and the Philippines. We draw upon qualitative data from 50 sex-segregated focus...
India - Malawi - Mali - Mexico - Morocco - Nigeria - Philippines
2018
Informe
Sustainable management of Miombo woodlands
Food security, nutrition and wood energy
The Miombo woodland is a vast African dryland forest ecosystem covering close to 2.7 million km2 across southern Africa (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe). The woodlands are characterized by the dominance of Brachystegia species, either alone or in association with Julbernardia and Isoberlinia...
Angola - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Malawi - Mozambique - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Soil and nutrients loss in Malawi: an economic assessment
Soil and nutrients loss are among the major impediments to a stable and sustainedagricultural development in Malawi. They have historically affected the country but thehigh population growth, rapid deforestation, overgrazing and ploughing, combined withthe impacts of climate change, such as temperature increases and changing precipitationpatterns, are increasing the impact of...
Malawi
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de blog
The rise of permaculture in Malawi
Through training, facilitation, demonstration gardens, role modeling, and counseling for sustainable living, a nationally registered environmental service provider, Matthews Shaba Mpofu is able to train rural women and youth, who are in majority in Malawi but are mostly grappled with poverty and high unemployment levels, the basics of permaculture. His...
Malawi
2018 - Greentumble
Hoja informativa
Increase the use of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure among CSOs and Grassroots Organizations - Malawi
Increase the use of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure among CSOs and Grassroots Organizations – Malawi is a country factsheet that provides information on the project “Increase the use of the VGGT among CSOs and Grassroots Organizations”, a general overview of governance of natural resources in...
Malawi
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento/nota de orientación
The Social Cash Transfer Programme and the Farm Input Subsidy Programme in Malawi
Complementary instruments for supporting agricultural transformation and increasing consumption and productive activities?
The Government of Malawi is currently reviewing the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP), which was initiated in 2005/2006, as a programme to combat poverty and food insecurity. This paper is intended to inform the FISP review and, in particular, how it can be coordinated with the Social Cash Transfer Programme...
Malawi
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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The state of agricultural extension and advisory services provision in Malawi
Insights from household and community surveys
This is part of a series of descriptive reports and later in-depth analysis of the survey data. These series are aimed to provide an assessment of the state of agricultural extension and advisory services provision in Malawi in order to inform policy and reform processes and programming by the government...
Malawi
2017 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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The household- and individual-level economic impacts of cash transfer programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Synthesis report
This report synthesizes the analysis and findings of a set of seven country impact evaluation studies that explore the impact of cash transfer programmes on household economic decision-making, productive activities and labour allocation in sub-Saharan Africa. The seven countries are Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Results from...
Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Lesotho - Malawi - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Ending poverty and hunger by investment in agriculture and rural areas
While there has been an unprecedented achievement in poverty reduction in the last three decades, eradicating extreme poverty and halving poverty by 2030 are still two of our greatest challenges. Today, about 767 million people continue to live in extreme poverty. Roughly, two thirds of the extreme poor live in...
Bangladesh - Chad - Ghana - Guatemala - Malawi - Mali - South Africa - Tajikistan - United Republic of Tanzania - Viet Nam
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Libro
Agroecology: The Bold Future of Farming in Africa
Agroecology is deeply rooted in the ecological rationale of traditional small-scale agriculture, representing long established examples of successful agricultural systems characterized by a tremendous diversity of domesticated crop and animal species maintained and enhanced by ingenuous soil, water and biodiversity management regimes, nourished by complex traditional knowledge systems. Such complex...
Burkina Faso - Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Malawi - Togo - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zimbabwe
2017 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Documento/nota de orientación
The economic case for the expansion of social protection programmes
Social protection is increasingly recognized as a critical strategy for poverty reduction and inclusive growth. Both, the 2030 Agenda, as well as Agenda for Humanity, stress the critical role social protection can play in the fight against poverty and exclusion, but also as a component of resilience building. However, more...
Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Lesotho - Malawi - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Libro
Everyday Experts: How people's knowledge can transform the food system
The People’s Knowledge Editorial Collective
Everyday Experts explains how knowledge built up through first-hand experience can help solve the crisis in the food system. It brings together fifty-seven activists, farmers, practitioners, researchers and community organisers from around the world in 28 original chapters to take a critical look at attempts to improve the dialogue between...
Brazil - Canada - Cuba - India - Iran (Islamic Republic of) - Malawi - Mexico - Peru - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2017 - Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR)
Documento técnico
Transboundary threats to food and nutrition security in Southern Africa. Issue 1. April- June 2017
The Bulletin highlights outbreaks of transboundary pests and diseases that have the potential to impact food and nutrition security in Southern Africa. It also captures recently concluded and upcoming events that are being organized by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and stakeholders to improve the capacities...
Angola - Botswana - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Malawi - Mauritius - Mozambique - Namibia - Seychelles - South Africa - Eswatini - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento/nota de orientación
Is crop diversification a panacea for climate resilience in Africa?
Welfare implications for heterogeneous households
Crop diversification is often promoted as a strategy to achieve climate resilience. However, the benefits to crop diversification may vary depending on household resource endowments. For farm households with few resources, as shown by studies of Burkina Faso, Malawi and Zambia, crop diversification is likely to be an important strategy...
Burkina Faso - Malawi - Zambia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento de trabajo
Women’s participation in fish value chains and value chain governance in Malawi
A case of Msaka (Lake Malawi) and Kachulu (Lake Chilwa)
This paper helps to fill an important gap that exists in gender responsive fish value chains by analysing the factors that influence women’s participation in fish value chains and value chain governance in Malawi. The study was based on the premise that there is limited information on how fish trade...
Malawi
2017 - Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)
Documento/nota de orientación
The economic impacts of cash transfer programmes in sub-Saharan Africa
Cash transfer programmes in sub-Saharan Africa impact the productive activities of both beneficiary and non-beneficiary households in the communities where they are implemented. These programmes have led to an increase in agricultural activities in beneficiary households, including greater use of agricultural inputs, more land area in crop production and higher...
Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Lesotho - Malawi - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento/nota de orientación
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)
Documento técnico
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
Documento de trabajo
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
Documento técnico
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)
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