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State of the African farmer
The future of food security in Africa lies in the hands of African farmers, yet not enough is known about them; data is scarce and their stories are only half told. This report puts smallholder farmers at the center of the dialog about farming and food security in Africa. Too...
Kenya - Malawi - Zimbabwe
2014 - Heifer International
Documento/nota de orientación
Climate-smart agriculture
Practice brief Conservation Agriculture
Implementation Guidance for Policymakers and Investors
India - Malawi - Zambia
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento de trabajo
Understanding the agricultural input landscape in sub-Saharan Africa
Recent plot, household, and community-level evidence
Conventional wisdom holds that Sub-Saharan African farmers use few modern inputs despite the fact that most growth-inducing and poverty-reducing agricultural growth in the region is expected to come largely from expanded use of inputs that embody improved technologies, particularly improved seed, fertilizers and other agro-chemicals, machinery, and irrigation. Yet following...
Ethiopia - Malawi - Niger - Nigeria - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2014 - World Bank Group
Documento de trabajo
Spatial price integration among selected bean markets in Malawi
A threshold autoregressive model approach
This research examines the extent of market integration among different bean markets across Malawi. Market integration is an indicator that efficiency exists within the flow of information between markets. The study focused on beans as they are a cheap source of protein affordable by the majority of rural smallholder farmers....
Malawi
2014 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Artículo de revista especializada
Communication for Strengthening Agricultural Extension and Rural Development in Malawi
Smallholder farmers in Malawi account for over 80 percent of the population and if the country is to achieve food security, poverty reduction and sustainable development attention to agricultural extension is a sine qua non. Since 2000, Malawi introduced extension reforms to better serve the needs of smallholder farmers. Some...
Malawi
2014 - Ohio State University
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The state of food insecurity in the world 2014
Strengthening the enabling environment for food security and nutrition
SOFI 2014 presents updated estimates of undernourishment and progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and World Food Summit (WFS) hunger targets
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Haiti - Indonesia - Madagascar - Malawi - Yemen
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento de trabajo
Developing a typology of agricultural holdings for improved policy design
Developing a typology of agricultural holdings for improved policy design
In Malawi, where most of the population relies on agriculture and is considered “small farmers”, better characterizing the diversity of agricultural holdings and the drivers of their transformation is key to inform policy makers and design programs better fitted to the diverse needs and capacities. The World Agriculture Watch (WAW)...
Malawi
2014 - World Agricultures Watch (WAW)
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From subsistence to profit
Transforming smallholder farms
Smallholder farmers in developing countries play a key role in meeting the future food demands of a growing and increasingly rich and urbanized population. However, smallholders are not a homogeneous group that should be supported at all costs. Whereas some smallholder farmers have the potential to undertake profitable commercial activities...
Malawi
2013 - International Food Policy Research Institute
Prácticas
Evergreen Agriculture: The use of fertilizer trees in maize production
Agroforestry is a set of tools which farmers can use to increase yields, build soil fertility, raise their income, and boost their food security. ICRAF and its partners have worked closely with farmers for decades to promote and develop simultaneous intercropping practices to address the challenges in soil fertility facing...
Malawi
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de revista especializada
Interdependences between smallholder farming and environmental management in rural Malawi
A case of agriculture-induced environmental degradation in Malingunde Extension Planning Area (EPA)
The objective of this article was to develop a deeper understanding of the interdependences between smallholder farming and the state of environmental management in rural Malawi. We examined the agricultural local governance framework in Malingunde Extension Planning Area (EPA), its contribution to food security and how it conflicts with overall...
Malawi
2013
Prácticas
Evergreen Agriculture: Conservation Agriculture in maize production in Malawi
Evergreen Agriculture is a combination of conservation agriculture and agroforestry practices within the same spatial and temporal dimensions. In other circles, evergreen agriculture is referred to as agroforestry based conservation agriculture or Conservation Agriculture With Trees (CAWT). Evergreen agriculture is being tested by ICRAF in conjunction with partners in Malawi...
Malawi
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Libro
Southern african agriculture and climate change
A comprehensive analysis
Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing eight of the countries that make up southern Africa — Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe — and explores how climate change will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security...
Botswana - Lesotho - Malawi - Mozambique - South Africa - Eswatini - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2013 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Parte de un libro
Southern african agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis - Malawi
Malawi is one of the least developed countries in the world, and therefore poverty remains a key challenge in the country.
The great variations in Malawi’s landscape result in wide spatial differences in climate.
Malawi
2013 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Paths out of poverty
A programme run by the Government of Malawi is providing cash transfers to more than 26,000 of the country's poorest households. FAO's 'From Protection to Production' project (PtoP), run in collaboration with Unicef with funding from DFID and the EU, is evaluating the impact of these cash transfers on economic...
Malawi
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Renforcement de l’autonomie et des capacités productives des agricultures familiales en zones rurales d’Afrique sub-saharienne » : Ethiopie, Madagascar, Malawi, Sierra Leone – Inter Aide – Rapport final
En appui au bureau d’études Bourbon Madagascar, le Gret a participé à l’évaluation de la convention programme de l’ONG Inter Aide dans quatre pays (Madagascar, Ethiopie, Malawi et Sierra Leone) sur le renforcement de l’autonomie et des capacités productives des agricultures familiales en zones rurales isolées d’Afrique Subsaharienne. Le Gret...
Ethiopia - Madagascar - Malawi - Sierra Leone
2013 - Professionnels du développement solidaire (Gret)
Artículo de revista especializada
Economic efficiency, Allen / Uzama and Morishima elasticities of smallholder agriculture In Dedza district, Malawi
This paper is an attempt to measure the economic efficiency of Dedza smallholder Irish potato (Solanum tuberosum) farmers in Malawi using a translog cost frontier, inefficiency effect model and input Elasticities from Seeming Unrelated Regression Model for asystem of cost share equations for labour, fertilizer, seed and land. A sample...
Malawi
2013
Parte de un informe
Market-led aflatoxin interventions
Smallholder groundnut value chains in Malawi
Aflatoxins are more than a barrier to trade for smallholders— they are a serious risk to public health. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 4.5 billion people are chronically exposed to the toxin through the consumption of staple foods, leading to cancer and childhood stunting as...
Malawi
2013 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Documento/nota de orientación
Large-scale Land Deals, Food Security and Local Livelihoods
Large-scale foreign land acquisitions - land grabs - are major and real concerns for African populations. The consequences of land deals are highly significant for local populations and the environment. Some see economic opportunities for local communities through employment and income generated from leasing or selling land. Others see land...
Ethiopia - Malawi
2013 - Future Agricultures Consortium
Documento/nota de orientación
Factors Influencing Access to Agricultural Input Subsidy Coupons in Malawi
One direct way in which agricultural input subsidies can provide social protection to the poor is by targeting the poor with very high subsidies to ensure that they are able to access inputs. Although the Malawi Agricultural Input Subsidy Programme (MAISP) generally targets resource-poor households, the targeting guidelines also accord...
Malawi
2013 - Future Agricultures Consortium
Documento de la Conferencia
Promoting empowerment and knowledge through smallholder farmers’ associations in Malawi
The National Smallholder Farmers’ Association of Malawi has used its multi-tiered membership structure to build a ‘knowledge chain’, spreading conservation agriculture techniques to more than 37,000 farmers. Combining this effort with support for adult literacy is empowering farmers (particularly women) to both gain and use new knowledge.
Malawi
2013 - National Smallholder Farmer’s Association of Malawi (NASFAM)
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