A5027598450- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Genetically Modified Organisms Research
- International Development and Aid
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Genetics and Plant Breeding
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- ICT Impact and Policies
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Public-Private Partnership Projects
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Food Safety and Hygiene
Malawi Government
2022-2023
University of Malawi
2022-2023
Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation
2019
Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries
2019
Sub-Saharan Africa is facing an expected doubling of human population and tripling food demand over the next quarter century, posing a range severe environmental, political, socio-economic challenges.In some cases, key Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are in direct conflict, raising difficult policy funding decisions, particularly relation to trade-offs between production, social inequality, ecosystem health.Here we use horizon-scanning approach identify 100 practical or research-focused...
Introduction External conditionalities have shaped public policy development in borrowing nations. This has been through top-down support programs, an example being the reforms under structural adjustment program. Under seed sector Malawi committed to Southern Africa Development Community and Common Market for Eastern harmonized regulations technical agreements. Methods To contribute debate, we analyzed process by investigating three questions: What were leading events? Who stakeholders...
Sub-Saharan Africa is facing an expected doubling of human population and tripling food demand over the next quarter century, posing a range severe environmental, political, socio-economic challenges. In some cases, key Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are in direct conflict, raising difficult policy funding decisions, particularly relation to trade-offs between production, social inequality, ecosystem health. this study, we used horizon-scanning approach identify 100 practical or...
Food fraud is an old, recurring, and global threat to public health. It poses a serious food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Despite the prevalence of SSA, little known about how viewed by consumers. This study aims provide overview consumers' concerns SSA. A multi-country survey was conducted October 2022-31 January 2023, 838 valid responses were returned. To reduce large correlated dataset, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) used. Five components derived from PCA: (i) Staple foods;...
CONTEXT: Economic policy reform studies have reported an implementation deficit resulting in increased poverty developing countries. This has been linked to the discrepancies between policies' technical complexity and receiving countries' social-economic status. Sub-Saharan African countries reforming seed sector through support for formal system led by private sector. happened within across regional economic communities harmonized regulations certification quality assurance, variety release...
<title>Abstract</title> At $1.5 billion the African seed sector accounts for 3.5 per cent of global market. The growth is attributed to economic reforms and countries adopting market-oriented policies promoting private role regional integration. However, smallholder farmers have reported poor quality certified seeds on Therefore, this feasibility study sought prove existence counterfeit hybrid maize market in Malawi. Using mystery shopper approach 37 samples were bought from agro-dealers...
At $1.5 billion the African seed sector accounts for 3.5 per cent of global market. The growth is attributed to economic reforms and countries adopting market-oriented policies promoting private role regional integration. However, smallholder farmers have reported poor quality certified seeds on Therefore, this feasibility study sought prove existence counterfeit hybrid maize market in Malawi. Using mystery shopper approach, 37 samples were bought from agro-dealers eight reference parent...
Abstract Networks have increasingly played an essential role in the economic reform policy process developing countries. However, their influence and impact on agriculture seed sector are unknown. Therefore, this study used social network analysis to understand of networks Malawi's harmonized regulation process. Key informant interviews were for primary data collection SNA questionnaires ( N = 27). The was complemented by secondary information. Data graphs, centrality measures, descriptive...