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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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Li, Guiying, Joseph P. Messina, Brad G. Peter, and Sieglinde S. Snapp. "Mapping Land Suitability for Agriculture in Malawi." Land Degradation & Development 28, no. 7 (May 16, 2017): 2001–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2723.

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Sahn, David E., and Jehan Arulpragasam. "The stagnation of smallholder agriculture in Malawi." Food Policy 16, no. 3 (June 1991): 219–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0306-9192(91)90088-2.

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Ngoc, Hoang Thi Huyen, Tran Thi Thuy Van, Nguyen Manh Ha, Nguyen Quoc Binh, and Mai Thanh Tan. "Bioclimatic assessments for tea cultivation in Western Nghe An." VIETNAM JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES 41, no. 1 (January 8, 2019): 81–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.15625/0866-7187/41/1/13586.

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Bioclimatology is applied for growing tea in the West of Nghe An province, where the tea is considered as a high economic efficient plant to be priorly cultivated for reducing poverty and getting rich. Based on the bioclimatic characteristics of tea plant and regional climatic data from 1980 to 2014, the bioclimatic diagrams are built and the tea cultivability is mapped in term of annual average temperature and total precipitation, for this region with regarding its district of Con Cuong as an analytical key. The climate, including both temperature and precipitation, in Con Cuong is relatively suitable for the tea plantation. The Western Nghe An, a land of approx. 1.4 million ha, could be classified in five areas with different suitability for tea plant. The unfavorable area occupies only 1% of total region and the four favorable rests account for 99% of total, in which, the most favorable area is largest with about 746,355 ha, i.e. over 50% of whole region. 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Brune, Lasse, Xavier Giné, Jessica Goldberg, and Dean Yang. "Facilitating Savings for Agriculture: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi." Economic Development and Cultural Change 64, no. 2 (January 2016): 187–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/684014.

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Mlangeni, Angstone Thembachako, NJ, Symon Bilesi Chibaya, Nelson Kaperemera, Elijah Aureliano Kamundi, Estone Malinda, and Noel Kapito. "Investigating Agriculture Teacher Shortage in Secondary Schools in Malawi." Journal of Studies in Education 5, no. 2 (May 19, 2015): 224. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jse.v5i2.6682.

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Bouwman, T. I., J. A. Andersson, and K. E. Giller. "Adapting yet not adopting? Conservation agriculture in Central Malawi." Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 307 (February 2021): 107224. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2020.107224.

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Chinseu, Edna, Lindsay Stringer, and Andrew Dougill. "Policy Integration and Coherence for Conservation Agriculture Initiatives in Malawi." Sustainable Agriculture Research 7, no. 4 (August 8, 2018): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/sar.v7n4p51.

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In sub-Saharan Africa, development and dissemination of perceived new agricultural innovations dominate the development agenda yet hunger and poverty remain widespread. A conducive policy environment is essential to support these efforts. Despite that national policies are a critical component in the functioning of an agricultural innovation system, studies have often overlooked their relevance in farmers’ adoption of agricultural innovations. There is an urgent need to enhance understanding of how policies affect long-term adoption of agricultural innovations aimed at increasing productivity and incomes of smallholder farmers. This study utilises thematic content analysis to examine the extent of integration of Conservation Agriculture (CA) and coherence in Malawi’s national agricultural policies, and their implication for CA adoption among smallholder farmers.Results indicate that inadequate integration of CA in the National Agricultural Policy (NAP), coupled with a lack of coherence of agricultural department policies, undermines farmers’ CA adoption. While inadequate integration constrains resource allocation for supporting CA activities, lack of coherence of agricultural policies radiates conflicting and confusing agricultural extension messages to smallholder farmers. We argue that inadequate CA integration and incoherence of policies are institutional constraints which prevent farmers’ sustained adoption. To facilitate long-term adoption of CA among smallholders, there is need to: (1) strengthen CA integration in agricultural policies; (2) improve departmental coordination to enhance coherence of agricultural strategies and extension messages disseminated to farmers; and (3) strengthen government’s role in supporting multi-disciplinary research to generate and disseminate best practices capable of sustaining CA adoption.

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Maggio, Giuseppe, and Solomon Asfaw. "Heterogeneous Effects of Sustainable Agriculture Practices: Micro-evidence from Malawi." Journal of African Economies 29, no. 4 (March 12, 2020): 333–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejz030.

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Abstract Are the effects of sustainable agricultural practices heterogeneous across agro-ecology and wealth in Malawi? Would a wealth-enhancing policy be associated with increased effectiveness of these practices? Focusing on a nationally representative set of Malawian agricultural households, the article answers the above questions by employing plot-level panel data matched with a set of geo-referenced rainfall and temperature records. The findings suggest a positive correlation between aggregate yield and the adoption of organic fertilizer. A similar result holds for legume intercropping and for hybrid seeds, which are associated to reductions in yield volatility between the two waves. Nevertheless, these effects appear heterogeneous across the agro-ecological zone of adoption, since a reduced number of farmers in selected locations can improve yields through the adoption of these practices. Further exploration suggests that less wealthy households show higher returns when adopting hybrid seeds or legume intercropping. Wealthier households, in contrast, report high yield only when treated with technology-enhancing practices, such as organic fertilizers and soil erosion control measures.

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Dougill, Andrew J., Stephen Whitfield, Lindsay C. Stringer, Katharine Vincent, Benjamin T. Wood, Edna L. Chinseu, Peter Steward, and David D. Mkwambisi. "Mainstreaming conservation agriculture in Malawi: Knowledge gaps and institutional barriers." Journal of Environmental Management 195 (June 2017): 25–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.09.076.

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Mapoma, Harold Wilson Tumwitike, and Xianjun Xie. "State of Air Quality in Malawi." Journal of Environmental Protection 04, no. 11 (2013): 1258–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jep.2013.411146.

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Kaunda, Jonathan Mayuyuka. "The state and society in Malawi." Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 36, no. 1 (March 1998): 48–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14662049808447760.

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M. Ogunmodede, Adewale. "Conservation Agriculture: An Agroecological Approach to Adapting and Mitigating Climate Change Impacts on Malawi’s Agriculture." International Journal of World Policy and Development Studies, no. 67 (September 30, 2020): 88–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.32861/ijwpds.67.88.96.

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Although Africa’s contribution to the world’s greenhouse gas emission is the smallest compared to other continents, yet they tend to be affected most by the variability in Climate. Malawi is not an exception to this climate change, as they are not just faced with rising temperatures and variable rainfall patterns, but with reoccurring droughts and severe flooding. Agriculture has been noted to contribute significantly to not only climate change but also has significant impacts on global warming through its greenhouse gas emissions. Nevertheless, not all farming systems impact negatively on climate change. Conservation Agriculture is a farming system that encourages no or minimum soil disturbance, maintenance of a permanent soil cover, and diversification of crop species. These three interlinked principles combined with good agricultural practices promote biodiversity and normal biotic processes, both on and under the ground surface, thereby increasing the productivity and nutrient use efficiency of water, into a more resilient farming system which will help sustain and improve agricultural production. This review looks at Conservation Agriculture practices in the Machinga Agricultural Development Division of Malawi and its role in climate change mitigation and adaptation. This paper shows that Conservation Agriculture has played an active role in the adaptation and mitigation of climate change effect by reducing atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions but suggested there is a need for the government to formulate a CA framework that is founded on the three interlinked principles and not just based on soil and water conservation principles which are currently being advocated and practised.

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Kauye, Felix. "Management of mental health services in Malawi." International Psychiatry 5, no. 2 (April 2008): 29–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/s1749367600005531.

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Malawi is a country in sub-Saharan Africa bordering Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia. It has an area of approximately 118000 km2 and is divided into northern, central and southern regions. It has an estimated population of 13 million, 47% of whom are under 15 years of age and just 5% over 60 years. Its economy is largely based on agriculture, with tobacco being the main export. The projected growth in gross domestic product (GDP) for 2007 was 8.8%; GDP per capita was $284 per annum.

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Mkandawire, Meya, and Xiaohong Duan. "Factors Influencing Credit Demand among Household Non-Agriculture Enterprises in Malawi." Open Journal of Business and Management 04, no. 02 (2016): 312–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojbm.2016.42033.

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Orr, Alastair. "‘Green Gold’?: Burley Tobacco, Smallholder Agriculture, and Poverty Alleviation in Malawi." World Development 28, no. 2 (February 2000): 347–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0305-750x(99)00127-8.

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Dorward, A. "Modelling embedded risk in peasant agriculture: methodological insights from northern Malawi." Agricultural Economics 21, no. 2 (October 1999): 191–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0169-5150(99)00018-3.

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Snapp, Sieglinde S., James DeDecker, and Adam S. Davis. "Farmer Participatory Research Advances Sustainable Agriculture: Lessons from Michigan and Malawi." Agronomy Journal 111, no. 6 (November 2019): 2681–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.2134/agronj2018.12.0769.

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Jew, Eleanor K. K., Stephen Whitfield, Andrew J. Dougill, David D. Mkwambisi, and Peter Steward. "Farming systems and Conservation Agriculture: Technology, structures and agency in Malawi." Land Use Policy 95 (June 2020): 104612. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104612.

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Dorward, Andrew. "Modelling embedded risk in peasant agriculture: methodological insights from northern Malawi." Agricultural Economics 21, no. 2 (October 1999): 191–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-0862.1999.tb00593.x.

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Harrigan, Jane. "Malawi: The Impact of Pricing Policy on Smallholder Agriculture 1971-88." Development Policy Review 6, no. 4 (December 1988): 415–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7679.1988.tb00444.x.

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Chinseu, Edna, Andrew Dougill, and Lindsay Stringer. "Why do smallholder farmers dis-adopt conservation agriculture? Insights from Malawi." Land Degradation & Development 30, no. 5 (November 28, 2018): 533–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3190.

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Amadu, Festus O., Paul E. McNamara, and Daniel C. Miller. "Yield effects of climate-smart agriculture aid investment in southern Malawi." Food Policy 92 (April 2020): 101869. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.101869.

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Blythe, Jessica L. "Social-ecological analysis of integrated agriculture-aquaculture systems in Dedza, Malawi." Environment, Development and Sustainability 15, no. 4 (December 22, 2012): 1143–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10668-012-9429-6.

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Ligowe, I. S., S. D. Young, E. L. Ander, V. Kabambe, A. D. C. Chilimba, E. H. Bailey, R. M. Lark, and P. C. Nalivata. "Selenium biofortification of crops on a Malawi Alfisol under conservation agriculture." Geoderma 369 (June 2020): 114315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114315.

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Dorward, A. R. "Modelling diversity, change and uncertainty in peasant agriculture in northern Malawi." Agricultural Systems 51, no. 4 (August 1996): 469–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0308-521x(96)00057-1.

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VENN, J. A. "THE STATE AND AGRICULTURE." Journal of proceedings of the Agricultural Economics Society 3, no. 1 (November 5, 2008): 13–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-9552.1934.tb01755.x.

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Whitford, Fred, Jay A. Neu, Betty Brousseau, Tad N. Hardy, John W. Impson, and David A. Rider. "State Departments of Agriculture." American Entomologist 37, no. 1 (1991): 27–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ae/37.1.27.

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Deshpande, R. S. "Farmer - State and Agriculture." Arthaniti: Journal of Economic Theory and Practice 16, no. 1-2 (June 2017): 27–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0976747920170102.

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Ngwira, A. R., Jens B. Aune, and C. Thierfelder. "DSSAT modelling of conservation agriculture maize response to climate change in Malawi." Soil and Tillage Research 143 (November 2014): 85–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2014.05.003.

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Ngwira, A., F. H. Johnsen, J. B. Aune, M. Mekuria, and C. Thierfelder. "Adoption and extent of conservation agriculture practices among smallholder farmers in Malawi." Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 69, no. 2 (March 1, 2014): 107–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2489/jswc.69.2.107.

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Dorward, A. "INTEGRATED DECISION RULES AS FARM MANAGEMENT TOOLS IN SMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURE IN MALAWI." Journal of Agricultural Economics 42, no. 2 (May 1991): 146–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-9552.1991.tb00343.x.

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Peter, Brad G., Joseph P. Messina, and Sieglinde S. Snapp. "A Multiscalar Approach to Mapping Marginal Agricultural Land: Smallholder Agriculture in Malawi." Annals of the American Association of Geographers 108, no. 4 (January 18, 2018): 989–1005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2017.1403877.

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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." International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks 9, no. 5 (January 2013): 150703. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/150703.

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Mvula, Albert, and Alan Dixon. "Farmer experiences of Tiyeni’s ‘deep-bed farming’ conservation agriculture system in Malawi." Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 45, no. 2 (September 10, 2020): 175–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2020.1819513.

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Tesfaye, Kindie, Moti Jaleta, Pradyot Jena, and Munyaradzi Mutenje. "Identifying Potential Recommendation Domains for Conservation Agriculture in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Malawi." Environmental Management 55, no. 2 (October 21, 2014): 330–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00267-014-0386-8.

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Thierfelder, Christian, John L. Chisui, Mphatso Gama, Stephanie Cheesman, Zwide D. Jere, W. Trent Bunderson, Neal S. Eash, and Leonard Rusinamhodzi. "Maize-based conservation agriculture systems in Malawi: Long-term trends in productivity." Field Crops Research 142 (February 2013): 47–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2012.11.010.

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Salleh, Halim. "State capitalism in Malaysian agriculture." Journal of Contemporary Asia 21, no. 3 (January 1991): 327–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00472339180000231.

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Koc, Mustafa. "UNDERSTANDING STATE POLICIES IN AGRICULTURE." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 10, no. 3 (March 1990): 22–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eb013095.

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Forster, P. G. "Religion and the State in Tanzania and Malawi." Journal of Asian and African Studies 32, no. 3-4 (January 1, 1997): 163–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002190969703200301.

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Ngwira, Susan, and Teiji Watanabe. "An Analysis of the Causes of Deforestation in Malawi: A Case of Mwazisi." Land 8, no. 3 (March 15, 2019): 48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land8030048.

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Deforestation is recognized as a major driver of the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. It also disturbs natural processes such as biogeochemical, hydrological, and ecological cycles. In Malawi, deforestation is estimated to be responsible for the loss of 33,000 hectares per year, and is mainly attributed to agriculture expansion, tobacco growing, and excessive use of biomass. However, little research has been conducted at either the local level or that of forests located on customary land. This research aimed to identify and analyze the underlying driving factors associated with the proximate factors of agriculture expansion, tobacco growing, and brick burning in Mwazisi. Landsat images for 1991, 2004, and 2017 were downloaded from the United States Geological Survey website and used to analyze changes in forest cover. Interviews with households (n = 399) and Natural Resource Committee members, a focus group discussion with key officers, and observations were conducted during field data collection in 2017. The results of the land cover analysis showed that forest covered 66% of the study area in 1991, and by 2017 it had decreased to 45.8%. Most households depend on wood from customary land forests for tobacco curing (69%) and brick burning (68%). Furthermore, 47.6% of the households have expanded their agriculture land by approximately 0.57 hectares during the past 15 years. The interview survey and the focus group discussion identified that the underlying driving factors towards these anthropogenic activities are: (a) population growth, (b) poverty, (c) expensive alternative building materials, (d) lack of awareness, (e) lack of resources, (f) lack of commitment from the tobacco companies, and (g) market system of the cash crops grown in the area. In conclusion, a set of economic, institutional, social, and demographic factors, which are associated with imbalanced relationship between rural and urban areas, underpin agriculture expansion, tobacco growing, and brick burning, and have thereby contributed to the decline of the forest cover in Mwazisi, Malawi.

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