A5045092137- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Banana Cultivation and Research
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- International Development and Aid
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Plant and animal studies
- Agricultural Economics and Practices
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Irrigation Practices and Water Management
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Human Rights and Development
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
University of Göttingen
2022-2024
IDinsight
2022
Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources
2018
Macadamia nuts constitute a vital component of both nutrition and livelihoods for smallholder producers in Malawi. We conducted comprehensive mixed-methods study, combining qualitative quantitative analyses, to explore varietal preferences production challenges among these farmers. Leveraging cross-sectional data from 144 members the Highlands Cooperative Union Limited, our study underscores several significant findings. Our findings reveal that majority macadamia farmers (62%) are aged over...
Abstract Conservation agriculture (CA) is a management paradigm in which soil covered outside of cropping seasons, minimally disturbed, and recharged with nitrogen-fixing legumes. Finding effective ways to encourage CA centuries-old problem playing out acutely today Sub-Saharan Africa. To better understand this issue, we have collected data on rural livelihoods adoption during two-year intervention southern Malawi. The evaluated rates under two different structures payment three levels...
Do electoral considerations play a role in the targeting of humanitarian transfers? We analyze direct cash and food transfers distributed Malawi response to an exceptionally poor harvest following late erratic rainy season 2015/16. Combining household survey data on with remotely sensed measure drought results 2014 2019 parliamentary elections, we show that were disproportionately targeted at marginal constituencies. Rather than distributing based solely need or mobilizing its tribal base,...
The study aims to analyse key determinants of urban and peri-urban youth employment in agribusiness Malawi support policies. A mixed-methods approach is used, which combines both quantitative qualitative analyses. method involved a Bivariate Logit Model Multinomial nationally representative survey data from the Fourth Integrated Household Survey 2016–2017. employed thematic analysis generated through Focus Group Discussions Key Informant Interviews for stakeholders agri-business Lilongwe...
Macadamia nuts constitute a vital component of both nutrition and livelihoods for smallholder producers in Malawi. We conducted comprehensive mixed-methods study, combining qualitative quantitative analyses, to explore varietal preferences production challenges among these farmers. Leveraging cross-sectional data from 144 members the Highlands Cooperative Union Limited, our study underscores several significant findings. Our findings reveal that majority macadamia farmers (62%) are aged over...
Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Change (BRACC) is a five year program whose main objective strengthen the resilience of poor vulnerable households withstand current future weather climate-related shocks stresses in four districts Southern Malawi: Balaka, Chikwawa, Mangochi Phalombe. operationalized as ability smooth consumption response stresses. This baseline report introduces evaluation context describes BRACC program, details design, summarizes findings from household...