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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2016
    Malawi, Africa

    Reliance on rainfall for agriculture and increased climate change and variability pose growing production risks in developing countries. Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa is dominated by smallholder farmers who depend mainly on rain-fed agriculture, putting food security at both household and national levels at risk, especially in the event of drought. Investment in smallholder irrigation becomes a priority in developing countries if food security and national development goals are to be met, as their economies are agro-based.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2016
    Kenya, Zambia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Eritrea, Ghana, Malawi, Ethiopia, Africa

    This brief describes the broad array of impacts arising from a cash transfer programme that was piloted in the Tigray region of Ethiopia from 2011 to 2014. About 80 percent of Tigray’s population of 4.3 million live in rural areas and depend on rain-fed subsistence agriculture for their livelihoods. Farm families in Tigray tend to have small land holdings and limited productive inputs such as labour, oxen, seeds and fertilizers. Severe drought has repeatedly struck the northern Tigray region and has had a major effect on agricultural productivity.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2016
    Kenya, Ghana, Malawi, Zambia, Lesotho, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Africa

    The Social Cash Transfer Pilot Programme (SCTPP) in Ethiopia is the Tigray Regional government’s pilot of a social cash transfer currently managed at the national level. The primary objective of the programme is to improve the quality of lives of orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC), the elderly and persons with disabilities as well as to enhance their access to essential social welfare services such as health care.

  4. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2016
    Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Malawi

    Land degradation and soil erosion have emerged as serious challenges to smallholder farmers throughout southern Africa. To combat these challenges, conservation agriculture (CA) is widely promoted as a sustainable package of agricultural practices. Despite the many potential benefits of CA, however, adoption remains low. Yet relatively little is known about the decision-making process in choosing to adopt CA. This article attempts to fill this important knowledge gap by studying CA adoption in southern Malawi.

  5. Library Resource
    January, 2016
    Malawi

    With more than three-quarters of its
    workforce employed in agriculture, Malawi is highly
    vulnerable to any adverse events affecting the agriculture
    sector, and agricultural risks are ever present in the
    country. Agricultural risks can obstruct development and
    enforce poverty traps, particularly for a country as reliant
    on agriculture as Malawi. Because of the size of the sector
    in the economy and the importance of agricultural products

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