Household Food Security In Malawi
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Author | : Benson, Todd |
Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2021-05-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0896294056 |
Download Disentangling food security from subsistence agriculture in Malawi Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Stephen Devereux |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Agriculture and state |
ISBN | : 9781858642154 |
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Author | : Benson, Todd |
Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 2021-05-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0896294072 |
Download Disentangling food security from subsistence agriculture in Malawi: Synopsis Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Malawi is a food-insecure country, and although most households have access to arable land, many rural Malawians cannot reliably obtain enough food to meet their dietary needs. Rainfed, low-input subsistence production, particularly of the staple crop maize, has historically been the primary means of assuring household food security. Today, most of Malawi’s 4 million households continue to grow much of their own food. However, with increasing regularity, several hundred thousand households each year are vulnerable to acute food insecurity. Insufficient crop harvests resulting from poor seasonal growing conditions and limited use of inputs, coupled with reliance on shrinking landholdings as the population continues to grow and in the context of weak markets in which to sell crops and buy food, mean that subsistence farming cannot meet the dietary requirements of all Malawians.
Author | : Margolies, Amy |
Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 2019-01-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Download Examining perceptions of food assistance on household food security and resilience in Malawi Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Malawi is extremely vulnerable to shocks and recurrent food crises (Barrett & Headey 2014). Malawi also suffers from persistently high levels of undernutrition (DHS 2016). Humanitarian aid has played an important role in alleviating hunger during emergencies, such as those in 2015-16 and 2016-17. However, the Government of Malawi and Development partners recognize that emergency responses are not a sustainable solution. This qualitative study examines the characteristics of resilient households and perceived effects of programs to improve food security and resilience from the perspective of the beneficiaries and communities they serve.
Author | : Aberman, Noora-Lisa |
Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2018-02-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 089629286X |
Download Agriculture, food security, and nutrition in Malawi: Leveraging the links Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Although the Malawian food supply is shaped largely by trends in smallholder food crop production, Malawi’s decades-long focus on improving smallholder productivity has only moderately improved food security and nutrition outcomes. Country statistics indicate an estimated 36.7 percent of rural Malawian households failed to access sufficient calories between 2010 and 2011. During the same period, 47 percent of children under the age of five years were estimated to be stunted in their growth. These indicators imply that some Malawian diets are lacking in terms of quantity (total calories consumed), and most are lacking in terms of quality (sufficient calories derived from nutrient-dense foods, such as meat, fish, eggs, dairy, legumes, fruits, and vegetables). Good nutrition requires both enough total calories (quantity) and enough vitamins and minerals per calorie (quality). How can Malawi better leverage its smallholder agriculture sector to improve nutrition? This report provides a series of primary and secondary data analyses that examine different aspects of this question.
Author | : Chilanga, Emmanuel |
Publisher | : Southern African Migration Programme |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2017-09-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1920597247 |
Download Food Insecurity in Informal Settlements in Lilongwe Malawi Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Although there is widespread food availability in urban areas across the Global South, it is not correlated with universal access to adequate amounts of nutritious foods. This report is based on a household survey conducted in 2015 in six low-income informal areas in Malawi’s capital city, where three-quarters of the population live in informal settlements. Understanding the dimensions of household food insecurity in these neighbourhoods is critical to sustainable and inclusive growth in Lilongwe. The survey findings provide a complementary perspective to the 2008 AFSUN survey conducted in Blantyre, which suggested a level of food security in urban Malawi that was probably more typical of peri-urban areas where many people farm. Given that informal settlements house most of Malawi’s urban residents, the Lilongwe research presents a serious public policy challenge for the country’s leaders. Poverty is a profound problem in Malawi’s rapidly expanding cities. Of particular concern is the poor quality of diets among residents of informal settlements. Precarity of income, reflected in the survey findings of frequent purchasing of staple foods and the need for food sellers to extend credit, appears to be a key driver of food insecurity in these communities. Economically inclusive growth, with better prospects for stable employment and protection for informal-sector workers, appears to be the surest route to improved urban food security in Malawi.
Author | : Aberman, Noora-Lisa |
Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2015-12-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Download Mapping the linkages between agriculture, food security and nutrition in Malawi Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Smallholder agriculture is the mainstay of Malawi’s economy. Its importance for livelihoods cannot be overstated. 94 percent of rural residents and 38 percent of urban residents engage in agriculture to some extent (Jones, Shrinivas, and Bezner-Kerr 2014), the vast majority as smallholder farmers with landholdings of less than one hectare. Smallholder crops are primarily maize—which accounted for nearly 80 percent of smallholder-cultivated land in 2011 —followed by cassava and other food crops (FAO 2008; IFAD 2011). These foods are grown for household consumption and for sale at local and regional markets. As such, the Malawian food supply, especially in rural areas where markets are thin with few buying or selling options, is shaped largely by trends in smallholder food-crop production
Author | : Mvula, Peter |
Publisher | : Southern African Migration Programme |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2016-10-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1920597093 |
Download The State of Food Insecurity in Blantyre City, Malawi Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Chronic food insecurity is considered to be one of the most important challenges facing the people and government of Malawi. Most attention tends to be given to the rural areas where the majority of the population live and where the prevalence of food insecurity is highest. However, Malawi is urbanizing at a rapid rate and those who move to the cities do not automatically become food secure. Urban food insecurity is likely to increase and therefore it is important for policy-makers to begin to think about this issue. AFSUN’s study of food insecurity in the city of Blantyre, Malawi’s industrial hub, formed part of its baseline survey of 11 Southern African cities. The study established that household dietary diversity is very low with most consuming a monotonous diet dominated by grain foods, especially maize. While the dependence on maize and its availability on the market means that absolute levels of food insecurity are lower here than in many other cities surveyed by AFSUN, there is also a clear seasonality to food security that coincides with the rural agricultural cycle. When maize prices rise, households immediately feel the pinch and levels of insecurity rise. Female-centred households, households with large family sizes, households that have lost a breadwinner through death, households with a sick member, and low-income households are more food insecure than the rest.
Author | : Ephraim Chirwa |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2013-09-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0199683522 |
Download Agricultural Input Subsidies Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book takes forward our understanding of agricultural input subsidies in low income countries.
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
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Download A Gender Analysis of Household Food Insecurity in the South Eastern Region of Malawi Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Food security -- Households -- Gender -- Rural and urban households -- Household Food Insecurity Scale -- Coping strategy index -- Dietary diversity score -- Multiple linear regression -- Multinomial logistic regression.