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Green, Erik. "Modern Agricultural History in Malawi: Perspectives on Policy-Choice Explanations." African Studies Review 50, no. 3 (December 2007): 115–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/arw.2008.0034.

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Abstract:Development research is often associated with issues of policy. Researchers aim to increase our contextual and theoretical knowledge to enhance the creation of “good” development policies. One way of doing this is to identify and learn from harmful policies of the past. The objective of this article is to examine such policy-choice explanations by looking at the dominant understandings of the modern history of agriculture in Malawi. These perspectives share the view that the high level of rural poverty is, to a great extent, an outcome of the agricultural policies implemented by the colonial and postcolonial governments. Of crucial importance are the mechanisms whereby the state actively tried to transfer resources from the smallholder sector to the state or to the estate sector. This had a negative impact on the production capacity of the smallholder sector. This article notes that the focus on policies alone is not a sufficient approach to understand the dynamics and limitations of the smallholder sector. The article also points to some methodological weaknesses with policy-choice explanations that are relevant for development research in general.
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Austin Banda, Owen, Maurice Ongalo Udoto, and Joel Kipkemoi Ng’eno. "Influence of Selected Institutional and Technological Factors on the Adoption of Sustainable Agriculture Technologies in Maize Farming in Mzimba South, Malawi." Journal of Agriculture and Crops, no. 63 (March 20, 2020): 16–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.32861/jac.63.16.26.

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Sustainable Agriculture Technologies (SATs) significantly contribute to addressing the negative effects of land degradation, poor soil health and climate variability in the agriculture sector. Despite efforts made by different stakeholders in promoting SATs to improve maize productivity in Mzimba South in Malawi, the adoption of the technologies among small-scale farmers remains unsatisfactory. As a result, most of the farmers continue to realize low maize yields. A survey was conducted from July to September 2019 to investigate the influence of selected institutional and technological factors on the adoption of SATs in maize farming among the small-scale farmers in Mzimba South. A multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select a representative sample of 132 small-scale maize farming household heads. Data was collected using a researcher-administered questionnaire. Multivariate probit, ordered probit and ordinary least square (OLS) models were applied to determine the influence of the selected factors on the adoption of SATs at α level of .05 using STATA and SPSS. Qualitative data was analyzed by a deductive approach, in which responses were categorized and summarized under the related themes. The study established that the adoption of SATs was significantly influenced by membership in farmer organizations (FOs), access to extension services, and the levels of relative advantage and complexity associated with the SATs. The findings of the study implied that the Government of Malawi and relevant stakeholders in the agriculture sector need to train and recruit more extension field staff to improve coverage and frequency of extension services delivery on sustainable agriculture. The stakeholders should also promote affiliation of the small-scale farmers to FOs to improve access to agricultural extension services and production resources on sustainable farming. In addition, efforts should be made to develop and promote affordable mechanization options for reducing farm drudgery associated with the implementation of SATs. Furthermore, the Government of Malawi should facilitate the formulation, enactment, and enforcement of local by-laws for safeguarding the SATs and their related inputs (or raw materials) against vandalism, livestock damage, and bushfires.
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Nkhoma, Peter R., Martin M. Bosman, and Michael Eduful. "Constituting Agricultural and Food Security Policy in Malawi: Exploring the Factors that Have Driven Policy Processes in the Farm Inputs Subsidy Programme." Journal of Asian and African Studies 54, no. 3 (January 16, 2019): 360–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909618820357.

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Political economy analyses of agricultural and food security policies in Malawi have emphasized the role played by domestic politics and, more specifically, the centralization of power in the executive. This paper builds on this perspective by exploring the view that such policies are in fact negotiated outcomes of interactions at the state–donor interface. Using interview data gathered from expert key informants and a review of publicly available data, the paper explores how certain policy drivers have interacted to shape agricultural and food security policies in Malawi. The results reveal that policy processes in the recent past have been driven and mediated by fiscal considerations, sociopolitical pressures, and pragmatism, which accounts for the unique and complex peculiarities of the Malawi context.
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Green, Erik. "State-Led Agricultural Intensification and Rural Labour Relations: The Case of the Lilongwe Land Development Programme in Malawi, 1968–1981." International Review of Social History 55, no. 3 (December 2010): 413–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859010000180.

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SummaryThis article deals with cash crop production and its impact on labour relations in postcolonial African peasant agriculture. The focus is on the Lilongwe Land Development Programme (1968–1981) in Malawi. The aim of the programme was to enable African farmers to increase yields and make them shift from the cultivation of tobacco and local maize to groundnuts and high-yielding varieties of maize. The programme failed to meet its goals, because of contradictory forces set in motion by the programme itself. The LLDP enabled a larger segment of farmers to engage in commercial agriculture, which caused a decline in supplies of local labourers ready to be employed on a casual or permanent basis. Increased commercial production was thus accompanied by a de-commercialization of labour relations, which hampered the scope for better-off farmers to increase yields by employing additional labourers. By using both written and oral sources, this article thus provides an empirical case that questions the conventional view that increased cash-crop production in twentieth-century rural Africa was accompanied by a commercialization of labour relations. It concludes that the history of rural labour relations cannot be grasped by simple linear models of historical change, but requires an understanding of local contexts, with a focus on farming systems and factors that determine the local supply of and demand for labour.
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Peters, Pauline E., and Daimon Kambewa. "Whose security? Deepening social conflict over ‘customary’ land in the shadow of land tenure reform in Malawi." Journal of Modern African Studies 45, no. 3 (July 16, 2007): 447–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x07002704.

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ABSTRACTMalawi, like other countries in Africa, has a new land policy designed to clarify and formalise customary tenure. The country is poor with a high population density, highly dependent on agriculture, and the research sites are matrilineal-matrilocal, and near urban centres. But the case raises issues relevant to land tenure reform elsewhere: the role of ‘traditional authorities’ or chiefs vis-à-vis the state and ‘community’; variability in types of ‘customary’ tenure; and deepening inequality within rural populations. Even before it is implemented, the pending land policy in Malawi is intensifying competition over land. We discuss this and the increase in rentals and sales; the effects of public debates about the new land policy; a new discourse about ‘original settlers’ and ‘strangers’; and political manoeuvring by chiefs.
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McCracken, John. "Economics and Ethnicity: The Italian Community in Malawi." Journal of African History 32, no. 2 (July 1991): 313–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700025743.

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This article focuses on the Italian community in Malawi, one of the smallest immigrant minority groups in Central Africa, but by no means the least important. Using the records of the Custodian of Enemy Property housed in the National Archives of Malawi, it suggests that, in the light of the Italian experience, there is need to modify the conventional view of the white farming sector as being uniformly inefficient and incapable of survival other than through the active support of the colonial state. At a time between the wars when capitalist farming as a whole was in deep depression, Ignaco Conforzi succeeded for reasons largely unconnected with the intervention of the state, in creating a highly profitable, diversified agricultural empire which survived the Second World War virtually intact. Through his influence, an Italian community was created, linked to Conforzi by a variety of economic and family ties and drawn largely from the same small area of central Italy from which he himself had come. Like members of other ethnic groups, these immigrants were constantly balancing their multiple identities – as whites, as farmers or mechanics, as Italians or as natives of a particular district in Italy. Between the mid-1930s and the mid-1940s external and internal forces combined to transform them into a classic minority, ‘singled out…for differential and unequal treatment’ but from the late 1940s onwards those who were regarded by the colonial authorities as conforming to European standards were reabsorbed within the wider settler community. Overall, however, they tended to be more skilled and, crucially, less heavily reliant on the state than were British settlers and it is these factors that explain their relative success.
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BOLT, JUTTA, and ERIK GREEN. "WAS THE WAGE BURDEN TOO HEAVY? SETTLER FARMING, PROFITABILITY, AND WAGE SHARES OF SETTLER AGRICULTURE IN NYASALAND, c. 1900–60." Journal of African History 56, no. 2 (June 12, 2015): 217–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853715000213.

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AbstractThe historical role of European farming in Southern and Central Africa has received a great deal of attention among scholars over the years. A striking consensus exists in the Scholarly literature, namely that the success or failure of European farming in Southern Africa was to a large extent dependent upon the colonizers' access to and control over cheap labour, which they in turn could only access through strong support of the colonial state. Yet, these propositions have so far not been systematically and empirically tested. This article is a first attempt to do that by analysing the ‘wage-burden’ European settler farmers faced. The wage-burden is identified by measuring wage shares (total amount paid in the form of wages as a share of total profits) on European farms in colonial Africa. Based on archival documents, we construct time-series for value of output, transportation costs, investments in agriculture, and wages paid for the European tobacco and tea sector in colonial Malawi. Our results contradict both previous research on settler colonialism in Africa and the historiography of Nyasaland. Our estimates show that settler farming did not collapse in the 1930s as commonly assumed. On the contrary, the value of production on both tobacco and tea farms increased significantly. And so did the settler farmers' capacity to capture the profits, which was manifested in a declining wage share over time. In contrast with previous research, we argue that the declining wage share cannot be explained by domestic colonial policies but rather through changes in regional migration patterns, and global commodity markets. Migration patterns had a significant impact on the supply of farm labour and global commodity markets influenced value of production. Market forces rather than colonial policies shaped the development trajectory of settler farming in Nyasaland.
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Poppy, G. M., S. Chiotha, F. Eigenbrod, C. A. Harvey, M. Honzák, M. D. Hudson, A. Jarvis, et al. "Food security in a perfect storm: using the ecosystem services framework to increase understanding." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 369, no. 1639 (April 5, 2014): 20120288. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0288.

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Achieving food security in a ‘perfect storm’ scenario is a grand challenge for society. Climate change and an expanding global population act in concert to make global food security even more complex and demanding. As achieving food security and the millennium development goal (MDG) to eradicate hunger influences the attainment of other MDGs, it is imperative that we offer solutions which are complementary and do not oppose one another. Sustainable intensification of agriculture has been proposed as a way to address hunger while also minimizing further environmental impact. However, the desire to raise productivity and yields has historically led to a degraded environment, reduced biodiversity and a reduction in ecosystem services (ES), with the greatest impacts affecting the poor. This paper proposes that the ES framework coupled with a policy response framework, for example Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR), can allow food security to be delivered alongside healthy ecosystems, which provide many other valuable services to humankind. Too often, agro-ecosystems have been considered as separate from other natural ecosystems and insufficient attention has been paid to the way in which services can flow to and from the agro-ecosystem to surrounding ecosystems. Highlighting recent research in a large multi-disciplinary project (ASSETS), we illustrate the ES approach to food security using a case study from the Zomba district of Malawi.
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CHIBWANA, CHRISTOPHER, CHARLES B. L. JUMBE, and GERALD SHIVELY. "Agricultural subsidies and forest clearing in Malawi." Environmental Conservation 40, no. 1 (August 16, 2012): 60–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892912000252.

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SUMMARYForests are an important source of environmental services and livelihoods in Africa, thus it is important to determine potential drivers of forest loss. Over recent decades, forest cover has been declining steadily in Malawi. This paper attempts to evaluate the influence of agricultural input subsidies on forest conversion in Malawi. A two-stage regression model analysis of 2009 farm survey data from Chimaliro and Liwonde Forest reserves in Kasungu and Machinga districts, respectively, did not reveal direct evidence of policy-induced forest clearing for agricultural expansion. Instead, subsidy-induced agricultural intensification of food crops, especially maize, appeared to have reduced the rate and extent of forest clearing among households in Malawi compared with households not benefiting from subsidies. However, indirect negative impacts on forests arose due to offtake of trees to construct drying sheds for tobacco, a local cash crop. These findings have implications for designing strategies for simultaneously conserving forests while promoting food security in rural areas, and shed light on the direct and indirect effects of input subsidies.
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Chinsinga, Blessings, and Michael Chasukwa. "Youth, Agriculture and Land Grabs in Malawi." IDS Bulletin 43, no. 6 (October 18, 2012): 67–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1759-5436.2012.00380.x.

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Nkhoma, Peter R. "Constituting Agricultural and Food Policy in Malawi| The Role of the State and International Donors in the Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP)." Thesis, University of South Florida, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10243139.

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ABSTRACT Numerous studies have been undertaken on the political economy of agricultural policies in developing countries. These studies have explained agricultural policies in terms of urban bias, economic reforms, and domestic politics. Recently, the emphasis has been on explanations that reference the existence of a rational-legal and patronage element within the African state. Such explanations tend to underplay the extent to which agricultural policies are devised in a context of power asymmetries between the state and international donors or financial institutions. In the Malawian context specifically, limited attention has been paid to the possibility that policies are a negotiated outcome of interactions informed by competing objectives at the state-donor interface. Accordingly, the proposed study will attempt to fill this existing gap in the literature. Malawi is currently at the center of policy debates regarding the state?s capacity to launch a uniquely African Green Revolution within a marketized and capitalist configuration. Such debates mark the continued underinvestment in agriculture on the African continent. The Malawi case, therefore, provides a unique opportunity to explore the extent to which state level efforts are either confounded or enabled by donors and international financial institutions. The specific successes and failures of the Malawi case speak to the question of how other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa might successfully address food production and food security issues. This dissertation will explore the overarching question of the role of the state and international donors in shaping agricultural and food security policies using Malawi?s farm input subsidy program as a case study. The main research methods to explore this question are qualitative, including interviews with various development stakeholders (government ministries, international development agencies, researchers from policy research and academic institutions, and civil society organizations) associated with agriculture and food policy-making, and textual analysis of publications associated with them. The research specifically targets key experts in the area of agriculture and food security. The findings indicate that policies have been greatly influenced by the competing ideologies of the state and donors, with each recognizing the problem but differing on the approach and modalities for solving food insecurity in Malawi. To this extent, there has been considerable inconsistency in policies with obvious negative outcomes. More recently, there has been an aligning of policy positions towards the use of social welfare programs and commercialization in addressing food insecurity. This alignment relates to policy positions on both the FISP and the configuration of the wider agricultural sector as manifest in the National Agricultural Policy, for example. The role of domestic politics vs. donors in policy processes has been in flux due to changes in the political and economic environment and configuration at specific junctures. The study also finds that evidence has been important in informing policy-making, more importantly, finance has had significant impact in attenuating the influence of domestic politics, so that the recently proposed and implemented reforms to FISP, although connected to considerable sociopolitical pressure from various quarters, have been largely precipitated by a serious fiscal crisis on the part of the government. To this extent, the state has assumed a pragmatic approach to policy-making i.e., one that is cognizant of the limitations imposed by finance and Malawi?s very harsh, challenging, and complex context.

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Kaunda, J. B. M. "Malawi : development policy and the centralised state : a study of Liwonde agricultural development." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.233634.

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Nkhoma, Peter Rock. "Constituting Agricultural and Food Policy in Malawi: The Role of the State and International Donors in the Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP)." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6556.

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Numerous studies have been undertaken on the political economy of agricultural policies in developing countries. These studies have explained agricultural policies in terms of urban bias, economic reforms, and domestic politics. Recently, the emphasis has been on explanations that reference the existence of a rational-legal and patronage element within the African state. Such explanations tend to underplay the extent to which agricultural policies are devised in a context of power asymmetries between the state and international donors or financial institutions. In the Malawian context specifically, limited attention has been paid to the possibility that policies are a negotiated outcome of interactions informed by competing objectives at the state-donor interface. Accordingly, the proposed study will attempt to fill this existing gap in the literature. Malawi is currently at the center of policy debates regarding the state’s capacity to launch a uniquely African Green Revolution within a marketized and capitalist configuration. Such debates mark the continued underinvestment in agriculture on the African continent. The Malawi case, therefore, provides a unique opportunity to explore the extent to which state level efforts are either confounded or enabled by donors and international financial institutions. The specific successes and failures of the Malawi case speak to the question of how other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa might successfully address food production and food security issues. This dissertation will explore the overarching question of the role of the state and international donors in shaping agricultural and food security policies using Malawi’s farm input subsidy program as a case study. The main research methods to explore this question are qualitative, including interviews with various development stakeholders (government ministries, international development agencies, researchers from policy research and academic institutions, and civil society organizations) associated with agriculture and food policy-making, and textual analysis of publications associated with them. The research specifically targets key experts in the area of agriculture and food security. The findings indicate that policies have been greatly influenced by the competing ideologies of the state and donors, with each recognizing the problem but differing on the approach and modalities for solving food insecurity in Malawi. To this extent, there has been considerable inconsistency in policies with obvious negative outcomes. More recently, there has been an aligning of policy positions towards the use of social welfare programs and commercialization in addressing food insecurity. This alignment relates to policy positions on both the FISP and the configuration of the wider agricultural sector as manifest in the National Agricultural Policy, for example. The role of domestic politics vs. donors in policy processes has been in flux due to changes in the political and economic environment and configuration at specific junctures. The study also finds that evidence has been important in informing policy-making, more importantly, finance has had significant impact in attenuating the influence of domestic politics, so that the recently proposed and implemented reforms to FISP, although connected to considerable sociopolitical pressure from various quarters, have been largely precipitated by a serious fiscal crisis on the part of the government. To this extent, the state has assumed a pragmatic approach to policy-making i.e., one that is cognizant of the limitations imposed by finance and Malawi’s very harsh, challenging, and complex context.
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Manda, Levison Zeleza. "Media and agriculture in Africa : a case study of agriculture radio programming in Malawi." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020925.

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This thesis argues that although participatory communication for development has been extolled to be more effective than the monologic or top-down communication approaches associated with the modernization development paradigm, its influence in making Malawian smallholder farmers adopt radio-mediated innovations and technologies seems to be minimal and ought to be reconsidered for more effective communication for development models. The study used mostly qualitative methodology, with focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and a semi-structured questionnaire to gather verbal and statistical from the primary beneficiaries in order data to understand why three mass media interventions in Malawi had similar effects when only one of them was strictly participatory. It found, inter alia, that in two sites food security was the overriding factor that influenced the community members to adopt radio messages while in the third the participants were mostly driven by the desire to earn money, essentially because the area is food-secure. Thus, participation in radio production was found not to have any significant role in the acceptance and adoption of radio-mediated innovations by the farming communities. Based on the above findings, the study recommends a) an integrated communication for development (IC4D) model that combines top-down information dissemination techniques and participatory communication approaches since the two reinforce more than they oppose each other, and b) the formation of a Communication for Development (C4D) pool fund in Malawi to finance C4D activities. The C4D pool fund is theorised to be resourced by the Malawi government departments, local farmers ‘organisations, international NGOs, and UN bodies such as UNICEF, WHO, and the FAO.
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Chizimba, Martha. "Sustainable agricultural development in the Malawian smallholder agricultural sector: a case of Lilongwe District." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/365.

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Even though agriculture is the backbone of Malawi‟s economy, food insecurity has remained a continuous threat among the poor. Until the 1980s, Malawi had been achieving national food security through an extensive system of agricultural inputs and marketing subsidies. However, these subsidies were removed and at the same time, the agricultural credit system collapsed. Consequently, agricultural productivity in Malawi remained low, poverty remained pervasive and food insecurity remains a main constraint to national and household food security. Therefore, the success of the agricultural sector in Malawi is very critical for raising the living standards and for food self-sufficiency. In this vein, the study hypothesized that Malawi can only achieve sustainable agricultural development if its agricultural policies are focused towards intensifying agricultural productivity through active participation of smallholder farmers. The major aim of the study was to contribute towards an improved understanding of how the issues of sustainable agricultural development have been addressed in Malawi and how they have influenced the lives of smallholder farmers. The analysis of the results revealed that even though what was implemented in the 1970s to early 1980s was financially unsustainable, but it provided some solutions to the fundamental challenges of smallholder development in Malawi. However, the liberalisations eroded whatever economic benefits achieved then. Never the less, the re-introduction of the agricultural input subsidies restored back the means of production leading to significant transformation of the country from a net importer to a net food exporter. On the other hand, although the agricultural input subsidy programme is being commended for having helped in achieving food security, the study revealed that the programme requires complementary services of credit, extension, research and market to support it. This will provide an exit strategy, which can enable the producers to sell their produce at higher prices sufficient enough for them to afford agricultural inputs without subsidies.
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Dzimbiri, Lewis Baison. "Industrial relations, the state and strike activity in Malawi." Thesis, Keele University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251402.

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Javdani, Marie S. "Stop the Bleeding, Heal the Wound: The Role of Fertilizer Subsidies in Food Security, Zomba District, Malawi." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10060.

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xiv, 126 p. : ill., map. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
The government of Malawi is being lauded internationally for having ostensibly eliminated hunger within its borders through a subsidy that makes available chemical fertilizers to smallholder farmers. Development scholarship and policy have recently turned toward promoting a "new" Green Revolution in Africa for the establishment of food security and the advancement of economic development. Many view the increased use of chemical fertilizer in Malawian agriculture and the resultant rise in maize yieldsdescribed by such publications as the New York Times as the "Malawi Mirac1e"-as evidence that the prescribed NGR is indeed a recipe for success. This thesis places the subsidy in its historical and theoretical framework and discusses the extent to which production-end strategies accomplish the goals of food security. Also discussed are nonproduction measures that are essential to creating a reliable and accessible food system.
Committee in Charge: Peter A. Walker, Chair; Derrick L. Hindery
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Sahle, Eunice Njeri. "Democratisation in Malawi, state, economic structure and neo-liberal hegemony." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ63452.pdf.

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Silungwe, Chikosa Mozesi. "The land question in Malawi : law, responsibilization and the state." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2010. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/53165/.

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This thesis argues that the land question in Malawi can be resolved through the emergence of a responsibilized State under people–generated responsibilization. People–generated responsibilization is a holistic, bottom–up approach to tackling asymmetrical access to, and ownership of, land in the country. This, it is suggested, must entail proactive, people–based action for a triangulated approach to land reform involving law, macroeconomic frameworks like poverty reduction strategies, and the adherence to the terms of governing under the Constitution. The broad context of the research is that since the mid–1990s, Malawi has joined the ‘new wave’ of land reform. The new wave takes place amidst the re– conceptualization of ‘development’ in development discourse through a supposedly decentred focus on economic growth. The new donor consensus is that land reform must be more human–centred and foster pro–poor economic growth. It is in this environment that Malawi adopted the National Land Policy in 2002. The Policy is meant to guide the country’s land reform and contribute to sustained economic growth. The new wave is problematic since it perpetuates land reform approaches of the law and development movement whereby land reform becomes land law reform. The ‘customary’ space is subjected to a process of formalization and privatization of the right to property in land ostensibly to boost economic growth. This approach is narrow and undermines the resolution of a land question. Using the Foucauldian ‘idea’ of governmentality, the thesis examines situations and processes that have entrenched the land question in Malawi. There is a multiverse of the parochial interests of the State, the Bretton Woods Institutions, ‘commercial’ farmers, and the land deprived. The narrow focus on land law reform demonstrates the dominance of market as value and entrenches the land question in Malawi.
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Pelletier, Bernard 1964. "Management practices, soil quality and maize yield in smallholder farming systems of central Malawi." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=37809.

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The effect of management practices used by smallholder farmers to improve soil quality and increase maize yield was examined in an 80 ha. micro-watershed of central Malawi. Because of the complexity inherent in smallholder farming systems, this research proposed the combination of participatory methods with analytical techniques developed in field ecology, such as multivariate and spatial analysis. During a Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), farmers identified factors potentially influencing soil quality and maize yield. One hundred and seventy-six (176) plots were located in twenty-nine (29) fields and characterized for management practices and biophysical characteristics. Soil samples were collected at each plot and analysed for a suite of properties. The maize yield was measured for both 1996--97 and 1997--98 seasons. A formal survey was used to gather information on household characteristics. Results showed that management practices that were promoted by a previous extension project, such as alley cropping and the planting of grass on contour ridges, were strongly correlated and found mainly in fields located closer to house compounds. Farmers with a higher proportion of their land under wetland gardens tended to use less agroforestry. Food security was associated with households that were able to purchase inorganic fertilizers, had larger landholding size, and owned livestock and woodlots. The effect of management practices on maize yield and soil quality was partially confounded with characteristics of the plot, such as slope, degradation level, number of years under cultivation or pest damage. Higher maize yield was observed in plots that were better managed, as expressed by the combination of different management practices, lower pest incidence, fewer erosion signs and higher soil fertility. Some positive effects of alley cropping on soil quality were observed in plots that were cultivated for a longer period and located on flatter land. This study demo
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Books on the topic "Agriculture and state - Malawi"

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Reintsma, Mary. The impacts of economic and agricultural policies on women in agriculture in Malawi. Washington, D.C: Robert R. Nathan Associates, 1989.

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Scarborough, Vanessa. Agricultural policy reforms under structural adjustment in Malawi. Ashford: Agrarian Development Unit, Department of Agricultural Economics, Wye College, 1990.

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Scarborough, Vanessa. Agricultural policy reforms under structural adjustment in Malawi. Ashford, Kent: Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Wye College, 1990.

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Chirwa, Ephraim W. Pro-poor growth in agriculture and the land question in Malawi. Zomba, Malawi: University of Malawi, Chancellor College, Dept. of Economics, 2005.

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Sahn, David E. Development through dualism?: Land tenure, policy, and poverty in Malawi. Washington, D.C: Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program, 1991.

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Malawi. Office of the President and Cabinet. Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security: Common services capacity assessment and development report. Lilongwe, Malawi]: Office of the President and Cabinet, Republic of Malawi, 2008.

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Schwartz, Gayle M. Aspects of participation in economic policy reform: The Malawi case study : an analysis of participation in the agriculture sector. [Malawi: s.n., 1994.

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An exploratory study of land use, management, and degradation: West Malombe Catchment, Mangochi RDP, Malawi. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, 2000.

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Kaunda, J. B. Mayuyuka. Malawi: Development policy and the centralised state : a study of Liwonde Agricultural Development Division. Norwich: University of East Anglia, 1988.

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Fitch, James. Estate farm management in Malawi: Considerations for policy formulation. New York, USA: Institute for Development Anthropology, 1991.

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Book chapters on the topic "Agriculture and state - Malawi"

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Chipeta, C., and M. W. Mhango. "Biotechnology and Labour Absorption in Malawi Agriculture." In Biotechnology, 94–113. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12865-5_6.

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Bikketi, Edward, Esther Njuguna-Mungai, Leif Jensen, and Edna Johnny. "Kinship structures, gender and groundnut productivity in Malawi." In Gender, Agriculture and Agrarian Transformations, 221–38. New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. | Series: Earthscan food: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429427381-13.

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Arslan, Aslihan, Solomon Asfaw, Romina Cavatassi, Leslie Lipper, Nancy McCarthy, Misael Kokwe, and George Phiri. "Diversification as Part of a CSA Strategy: The Cases of Zambia and Malawi." In Climate Smart Agriculture, 527–62. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61194-5_22.

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Chinigò, Davide. "Contested Market-Driven Land Reform in Malawi." In Contested Extractivism, Society and the State, 219–42. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58811-1_10.

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Johnson, D. Gale. "Present State of Disarray." In World Agriculture in Disarray, 32–54. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21248-4_3.

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Gaynor, Niamh. "The State and Participation in Malawi and Ireland." In Transforming Participation?, 136–64. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230275232_6.

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Singh, P. K., Anand Kumar, and Ravi Ranjan Kumar. "Genetic Improvement of Major Cereals in Prospect to Bihar State." In Sustainable Agriculture, 3–37. Includes bibliographical references and index.: Apple Academic Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9780429325830-2.

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Bilanchyn, Yaroslav, Oksana Tsurkan, Mykola Tortyk, Volodymyr Medinets, Andriy Buyanovskiy, Inna Soltys, and Sergiy Medinets. "Post-irrigation State of Black Soils in South-Western Ukraine." In Regenerative Agriculture, 303–9. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72224-1_27.

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Nierenberg, Danielle. "Agriculture: Growing Food—and Solutions." In State of the World 2013, 190–200. Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-458-1_17.

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Sahle, Eunice N. "State, World Order and Development: Malawi and South Korea." In World Orders, Development and Transformation, 59–92. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230274860_4.

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Conference papers on the topic "Agriculture and state - Malawi"

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Mafuta, Million, Marco Zennaro, Antoine Bagula, Graham Ault, Harry Gombachika, and Timothy Chadza. "Successful deployment of a Wireless Sensor Network for precision agriculture in Malawi." In 2012 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Networked Embedded Systems for Every Application (NESEA). IEEE, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/nesea.2012.6474009.

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Speshilova, N. V., and V. V. Hramova. "Agriculture of the Orenburg region: state and development trends." In SCIENCE OF RUSSIA: TARGETS AND GOALS. "Science of Russia", 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18411/sr-10-08-2019-20.

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Palagin, O., V. Romanov, I. Galelyuka, V. Velichko, and V. Hrusha. "Data acquisition systems of plants' state in precision agriculture." In 2011 IEEE 6th International Conference on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications (IDAACS). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/idaacs.2011.6072702.

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John D. Harrison, Dallen R. Smith, and Aditya Toney. "Utah State University Cooperative Extenison Agriculture Environmental Management System." In 2004, Ottawa, Canada August 1 - 4, 2004. St. Joseph, MI: American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.13031/2013.17038.

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Filina, Ya A. "The use of automated weather stations in agriculture." In CURRENT STATE, PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRARIAN SCIENCE. Federal State Budget Scientific Institution “Research Institute of Agriculture of Crimea”, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.33952/2542-0720-2020-5-9-10-150-1.

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The article is devoted to the use of local weather stations in agriculture. The set of automated meteorological stations and sensors for monitoring the state of agricultural crops is considered. The advantages and disadvantages of their use are highlighted. Some examples of data processing and storage are given.
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Danilova, A. A., N. A. Yurina, D. A. Yurin, and E. A. Maksim. "Aquaponic system as a promising direction of agriculture." In CURRENT STATE, PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRARIAN SCIENCE. Federal State Budget Scientific Institution “Research Institute of Agriculture of Crimea”, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.33952/09.09.2019.12.

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Rogov, I. E., L. N. Ananchenko, I. A. Kasyanov, A. N. Bolotin, and K. F. Kalmykova. "PROSPECTS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS OF POWERFUL ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS IN AGRICULTURE." In STATE AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS OF AGRIBUSINESS Volume 2. DSTU-Print, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23947/interagro.2020.2.98-101.

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The article deals with the problems of powerful electromagnetic fields and electromagnetic compatibility in the electric power industry. The purpose of the study is to analyze modern systems and methods for minimizing powerful electromagnetic fields in the electric power industry. The analysis of modern systems and assessment of the electromagnetic environment at the energy facility will make it possible to develop and implement upgrades that increase the security of the object.
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Serbulova, N. M., S. V. Kanurny, D. A. Lebedev, O. V. Kargin, and A. I. Morozenko. "THE ROLE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE." In STATE AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS OF AGRIBUSINESS Volume 2. DSTU-Print, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23947/interagro.2020.2.121-124.

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Digitalization is one of the most important transformational processes in world agriculture and food production and sale systems. The paper considers the contribution of information and communication technologies (ICT) to the transition to sustainable agriculture. Particular attention is paid to precision agriculture as a food production model that integrates many ICTs. The paper also discusses some disadvantages of ICT and factors limiting their use in agriculture.
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Ambourn, Angie. "Perspectives of a state Department of Agriculture on data sharing." In 2016 International Congress of Entomology. Entomological Society of America, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1603/ice.2016.107265.

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Halanets, Volodymyr, and Yurii Dziurakh. "State support of agriculture in Ukraine: innovation and investment aspects." In International Youth Science Forum “Litteris et Artibus”. Lviv Polytechnic National University, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.23939/lea2018.01.107.

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Reports on the topic "Agriculture and state - Malawi"

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Lauren Cunningham, Lauren Cunningham. Household Composting Toilets for Agriculture in Malawi. Experiment, April 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.18258/4997.

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Benson, Todd. Disentangling food security from subsistence agriculture in Malawi. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2499/9780896294059.

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Brune, Lasse, Xavier Giné, Jessica Goldberg, and Dean Yang. Facilitating Savings for Agriculture: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w20946.

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Benson, Todd. Disentangling food security from subsistence agriculture in Malawi Synopsis. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2499/9780896294073.

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Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy. Agriculture, food security, and nutrition in Malawi: Leveraging the links. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2499/9780896292864.

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Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy. Agriculture support services in Malawi: Direct effects, complementarities, and time dynamics. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2499/1037800842.

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Barreca, Alan, Price Fishback, and Shawn Kantor. Agricultural Policy, Migration, and Malaria in the 1930s United States. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w17526.

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Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy. Conclusions: The key role of agriculture in achieving better diets in Malawi. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2499/9780896292864_07.

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Tranel, Larry F. Tri-State Agriculture Lenders Seminar, 2017. Ames (Iowa): Iowa State University, January 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/ans_air-180814-306.

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Hristov, A. N., J. M. F. Johnson, C. W. Rice, M. E. Brown, R. T. Conant, S. J. Del Grosso, N. P. Gurwick, et al. Chapter 5: Agriculture. Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report. Edited by N. Cavallaro, G. Shrestha, M. A. Mayes, R. Najjar, S. Reed, P. Romero-Lankao, and Z. Zhu. U.S. Global Change Research Program, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7930/soccr2.2018.ch5.

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