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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 …
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. Aflatoxicosis: Evidence from Kenya by Abigael Obura 3. Aflatoxin Exposure and Chronic Human Diseases: Estimates of Burden of Disease …: Implications for Intervention in Kenya by Sophie Walker and Bryn Davies 8. Market-led Aflatoxin Interventions: Smallholder … Groundnut Value Chains in Malawi by Andrew Emmott 9. Aflatoxin Management in the World Food Programme through P4P Local …
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This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) baseline survey results, summarizing both findings from the WEAI survey and the relationships between the WEAI and various outcomes of interest to the US Government’s Feed the...
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Those who study global poverty and ways to reduce it face a perennial set of questions: Do advances in knowledge, research, and technology make a real difference in the lives of poor people? What effect does research have on the poor? Who benefits? The contributors to Agricultural Research,...
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A variable climate, political instability, and other constraints have limited agricultural development in African countries south of the Sahara. Genetically modified (GM) crops are one tool for enhancing agricultural productivity and food security despite such constraints. Genetically Modified...
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This paper uses cross section-time series data on 57 communities in Malawi to determine statistically the factors … also endogenizes population growth and prevailing land tenure institutions within the customary sector of Malawi. The … field surveys. The data show a deterioration of Malawi's natural resource base: declining yields, loss of tree cover, and …
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(WFP) with the government of Malawi in its Food for Assets and Development (FFASD) program....Poverty mapping is a useful …
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surveys to the extensive but less detailed data from national censuses. A poverty map for Malawi, developed by drawing upon … information from the 1997–98 Malawi Integrated Household Survey with the 1998 Malawi Population and Housing Census, provides …. Given the close association between welfare and food security in most Malawi households, such a detailed poverty map can be …
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"This paper presents the poverty analysis of the 1997 98 Malawi Integrated Household Survey. The analysis developed … inequality estimates for Malawi's population. About 65 percent were unable to meet their basic needs, and poverty was deep and … pervasive. The distribution of household welfare was loosely examined within the context of the Malawi Poverty Reduction …
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informal and formal credit markets in Malawi. Households are found to be credit constrained, on average, both in the formal and … Malawi. Finally, formal and informal credit are found to be imperfect substitutes. In particular, formal credit, whenever …
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