Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing … eight of the countries that make up southern Africa — Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland … scenario maps, models, figures, and detailed analysis, the editors and contributors of Southern African Agriculture and Climate …

The second of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, East African Agriculture and Climate Change: A … contributors of East African Agriculture and Climate Change present plausible future scenarios that combine economic and … biophysical characteristics to explore the possible consequences for agriculture, food security, and resources management to 2050 …

agriculture, given its central role in the region's economies. Over the past 20 years, most African governments have carried out …

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 …

(WFP) with the government of Malawi in its Food for Assets and Development (FFASD) program....Poverty mapping is a useful …

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 …

"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 …

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 …