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2015–2016 El Niño
Early action and response for agriculture, food security and nutrition
El Niño is the warming of sea surface temperature in the tropical Pacific, which occurs roughly every 2 to 7 years, lasting from 6 to 24 months. While the main threat to food production is reduced rainfall and drought in some regions, El Niño can also cause heavy rains and...
El Salvador - Ethiopia - Haiti - Honduras - Indonesia - Lesotho - Malawi - Mongolia - Mozambique - Nicaragua - Papua New Guinea - Philippines - Somalia - South Africa - Timor-Leste - Zimbabwe
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Informe
Make it rain
Floods, droughts, heat waves, cold spells, and other natural disasters are large sources of risk for farmers. For instance, in semiarid areas of India, 89 percent of farming households cited drought as the largest risk to agricultural production. Climate change may make weather patterns more extreme and unpredictable, further exposing...
Ethiopia - Ghana - India - Malawi
2016 - The Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative (ATAI)
Estudio de caso
Malawi Farmer to Farmer Agroecology project
Malawi is a small landlocked country in southern Africa, bordered by Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia. The majority of Malawians are smallholder farmers, who grow crops for both food and income. More than half of the Malawian population lives in poverty, and the rate of food insecurity is very high. Typical...
Malawi
2016 - University of Malawi
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Farmer-managed seed systems in Dowa, Malawi
A legacy of eroded confidence and agricultural diversity after decades of Green Revolution implementation
This report is the product of field work conducted by ACB and Kusamala Institute for Agriculture and Ecology in Dowa district in central Malawi. The objective of the research was to deepen our understanding of the role of farmer seed varieties in smallholder production systems that have come under heavy...
Malawi
2016 - African Centre for Biodiversity
Libro
Economics of land degradation and improvement
This book on Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement provides with valuable knowledge and information both at the global, regional, and national levels on the costs of land degradation and benefits of taking action against land degradation. A key advantage of this book is that it goes beyond the conventional...
Argentina - Bhutan - China - Ethiopia - India - Kenya - Malawi - Niger - Russian Federation - Senegal - United Republic of Tanzania - Uzbekistan
2016 - Springer International Publishing
Documento técnico
Household resilience to drought
The case of Salima District in Malawi
This study identifies factors that affect resilience to drought among smallholder farmers in Salima, one of the districts frequently affected by drought in Malawi. The study contributes to the existing literature by constructing a drought resilience index (DRI) and uses it to determine the effect of drought resilience on the...
Malawi
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Documento/nota de orientación
The impact of agricultural extension services in the context of a heavily subsidized input system
The case of Malawi
This paper aims to test this hypothesis and to contribute to better understanding of strategies to revitalize the agricultural extension system in Malawi. Specifically, it examines the interplay between the fertilizer subsidy and access to extension services, and their impact on farm productivity and food security in Malawi.
Results show that...
Malawi
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Artículo de blog
Reducing and Preventing Child labour in Agriculture for a brighter future in Malawi
Awareness campaign encourages communities to prioritize child education
Child labour hampers children’s education, and quite often has adverse effects on their health, safety and morals. However, not all tasks performed by children are considered child labour. Some activities may help children acquire important livelihood skills and contribute to their survival and food security. But much of the work...
Malawi
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento técnico
Drought tolerant bean varieties offer hope to smallholder farmers in Malawi
The 2014/15 season was a nightmare in Malawi as the country faced floods at the beginning of the season and then terminal drought. Most farmers lost property and crops through flooding and water lodging while surviving crop fields were burnt dry prematurely by the terminal drought which was experienced towards...
Malawi
2016 - International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
Documento de trabajo
Strengthening storage, credit, and food security linkages
The role and potential impact of warehouse receipt systems in Malawi
This study considers the extent to which smallholder farmers, including those who do not necessarily produce a surplus for the market, might benefit from participating in warehouse receipt systems (WRS) in terms of improved income and food security. We consider three potential channels: efficient food markets; reduced post-harvest losses; and...
Malawi
2015 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Informe
Purchase from Africans for Africa
Phase I learning and results report
Purchase from Africans for Africa (PAA Africa) – a pilot project inspired by the Brazilian learning on institutional food procurement – recently released a report on the lessons learned from the first phase of implementation. This report details the joint efforts in five countries to increase smallholder farmers’ access to...
Ethiopia - Malawi - Mozambique - Niger - Senegal
2015 - World Food Programme (WFP)
Documento/nota de orientación
Heterogeneous preferences and the effects of incentives in promoting conservation agriculture in Malawi
Malawi faces significant challenges in meeting its future food security needs because there is little scope for increasing production by simply expanding the area under cultivation. One potential alternative for sustainably intensifying agricultural production is by means of conservation agriculture (CA), which improves soil quality through a suite of farming...
Malawi
2015 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Artículo de blog
FAO, Brazil join hands for nutrition education curriculum review
The South – South Cooperation project seeks to address nutrition security in schools
Nutrition education experts in Malawi have initiated a review of the country’s nutrition education curriculum to be incorporated in the curricula of Teacher Training Colleges. The review was made during a two-day national consultation workshop held in Kasungu from 16-17 November 2015 under the “Strengthening School Food & Nutrition Programs...
Brazil - Malawi
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Boletín informativo
Regional Office for Africa quarterly newsletter
Regional Office for Africa quarterly newsletter covering the months of October to December, 2015
Burundi - Liberia - Malawi - Zimbabwe
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Parte de un libro
Associations between irrigated farming and improved nutrition in Malawian farm households
Expansion of irrigation is a recurrent objective of the agricultural development plans formulated by successive governments in Malawi. More intensive and continual use of Malawi’s water and agricultural land resources is expected to increase and stabilize production of food and export crops, thereby increasing farm incomes, spurring growth in the...
Malawi
2015 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Parte de un libro
Food and nutrition security implications of crop diversification in Malawi’s farm households
Although dramatic increases in maize yields since the implementation of the Farm Income Subsidy Program (FISP)—the major national program that subsidizes fertilizer and improved seed primarily for maize cultivation—have likely enhanced household maize self-sufficiency (Chibwana et al. 2012), Malawian diets remain poorly diversified. Indeed, the contribution of foods other than...
Malawi
2015 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Artículo de blog
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)
Documento/nota de orientación
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
Artículo
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)
Documento/nota de orientación
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
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