By directing increasing shares of their farm production to the market and, thereby, realizing greater incomes, farming households can accelerate local rural economic development.
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The impact of a farmer business school program on incomes of smallholder farmers: Insights from central Malawi
Various models and approaches are being implemented to provide technical assistance and support to improve smallholder farmers’ incomes and welfare in Malawi.
Using panel data econometric techniques, this paper evaluates how public expenditure influences agricultural performance at the district level in Malawi by empirically estimating localized expenditure multipliers for the districts.
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Discretionary maize policy interventions in Malawi: An impact analysis of export bans and minimum farm gate prices
This study assesses the efficacy of maize export bans in improving food security in Malawi and of minimum farm gate prices in increasing the incomes of Malawian smallholder farmers.
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Achieving food security and industrial development in Malawi: Are export restrictions the solution?
Restrictions on exports of staples or cash crops are frequently imposed in developing countries to promote food security or industrial development goals.
This study identifies factors that affect resilience to drought among smallholder farmers in Salima, one of the districts frequently affected by drought in Malawi.
This paper considers potential strategic options for agriculture and development in Malawi in the context of the country’s current situation and the prospects the country faces.
This study considers the extent to which smallholder farmers, including those who do not necessarily produce a surplus for the market, might benefit from participating in warehouse receipt systems (WRS) in terms of improved income and food security.
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Challenges to soya export promotion: An institutional analysis of trade policy in Malawi
This study undertakes an institutional analysis of the soya export sector in Malawi to determine the critical institu-tional barriers to engaging in and expanding soya exports.
In 2004, the government of Malawi introduced the Malawi Agriculture Commodity Exchange under the Initiative for Devel-opment and Equity in African Agriculture program, which promoted modern information and communication technologies (ICT) to impro
This paper has two objectives. Our first objective is to review the research evidence on the factors known to be affecting the efficiency with which Malawian farmers use nitrogen fertilizer on maize.
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Modeling potential impacts of future climate change in Mzimba District Malawi, 2040-2070
This study investigates possible climate change patterns over the period 2040 to 2070 in order to assess the potential economic impacts for crop-livestock integrating and non-integrating farmers in Mzimba district in northern Malawi.
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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.
A large proportion of Malawian households are caught in a trap where poverty and food insecurity reinforce one another and where periods of food deficits and severe food crises are frequent occurrences.
Malawi has struggled to achieve sustained agricultural growth over the last four decades. As such there is need for in-creased investment and supportive policies if greater success is to be realized.
This empirical study uses data from 1970 to 2010 to estimate levels of neopatrimonialism in Malawi. We then test how neopatrimonialism has affected policy-induced agriculture producer incentives.