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Market Imperfections Exacerbate the Gender Gap : The Case of Malawi

Palacios-Lopez, Amparo - 2020

This paper hypothesizes that labor and credit market imperfections?by discouraging off-farm income-generating activities and restricting access to inputs, respectively?affect female farm productivity more deeply than male productivity. The paper develops a theoretical model that decomposes the...

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Caught in a Productivity Trap : A Distributional Perspective on Gender Differences in Malawian Agriculture

Kilic, Talip - 2020

-representative analysis of the gender gap in Malawi, and decomposes it, for the first time, at the mean and at selected points of the …

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Heterogeneous Preferences and the Effects of Incentives in Promoting Conservation Agriculture in Malawi

Ward, Patrick - 2015

Malawi faces significant challenges in meeting its future food security needs because there is little scope for …

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Understanding Compliance in Programs Promoting Conservation Agriculture : Modeling a Case Study in Malawi

Ward, Patrick - 2016

adoption in southern Malawi. Unlike what is implicitly assumed when these packages of practices are introduced, farmers view …

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Disentangling food security from subsistence agriculture in Malawi

Benson, Todd - 2021

arable land for food production. This book calls for three critical changes to promote sustainable food security in Malawi: 1 …

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'It Takes Two' : Women’s Empowerment in Agricultural Value Chains in Malawi

Ragasa, Catherine; Malapit, Hazel Jean; Rubin, Deborah; … - 2021

chains. This report focuses on Malawi, one of the six pilot countries of the ATVET4Women; and focuses on vegetable value …

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Impacts of Agricultural Mechanization : Evidence From Four African Countries

Daum, Thomas; Adegbola, Ygué P.; Kamau, Geoffrey; … - 2021

Agricultural mechanization is on the rise in Africa. A widespread replacement of manual labor will change the face of African agriculture. Despite this potentially transformative role, only few studies have looked at the potential effects of mechanization empirically, mostly focusing on yields...

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Assessing the profitability and feasibility of climate-smart agriculture investment in Southern Malawi : understanding the costs and benefits in a volatile and changing climate

Ignaciuk, Adriana M.; Maggio, Giuseppe; Sitko, Nicholas J. - 2021

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Leveraging social protection to advance climate-smart agriculture : an empirical analysis of the impacts of Malawi's Social Action Fund (MASAF) on farmers' adoption decisions and w...

Scognamillo, Antonio; Sitko, Nicholas J. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 146 (2021), pp. 1-13

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Agricultural input subsidies : the recent Malawi experience

Chirwa, Ephraim Wadonda; Dorward, Andrew R. - 2013 - 1. publ.

This title provides a detailed, comprehensive, and objective analysis of Malawi's agricultural input subsidy programme …Agricultural input subsidies : changing theory and practice -- Recent African experience with input subsidies -- Malawi …/11 -- Targeting and access to input subsidies -- Graduation : Malawi Farm Input Subsidy Programme …

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