Malawi - Consortium Outputs
NEW! Working Paper: The Social Protection Policy in Malawi: Processes, Politics and Challenges
NEW! Working Paper: Reclaiming Policy Space: Lessons from Malawi's 2005/2006 Fertilizer Subsidy Programme
NEW! Discussion Paper: Rethinking Agricultural Input Subsidies in Poor Rural Economies. See also the associated Powerpoint presentation
Briefing: Future Scenarios for Agriculture in Malawi
What are the fundamental challenges for Malawi's agricultural development and smallholder farmers? A two-part briefing from Ephraim Chirwa, Jonathan Kydd and Andrew Dorward.
part 1: Concepts
part 2: Policy
The full paper on which these Briefings are based is available here.
Stakeholder Consultation Workshops
This report presents a summary of the presentations and discussions from three workshops held in Malawi in March 2006. The document summarises discussions from a tea sector meeting, a cotton sector meeting and presentations and discussions from an agriculture sector meeting.
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Some of the topics which the Consortium will be looking at as part of
the Malawi country study include:
- Land: including land access, transfers and markets; commercial estate land - efficiency of use and possibilities for reform; HIV/AIDS crisis; incentives for investors; political economy of land; and legislative and policy changes
- Diversification: Recent growth of cassava - what are the dynamics and drivers; future of tobacco
- Technology: Issues of improving and maintaining technology for the key smallholder cash crops.
Further Resources
'Poorly Performing Countries: Malawi, 1980-2002', Diana Cammack, Background Paper 3 for ODI Study on Poor Performing Countries, March 2004
Rethinking Agricultural Input Subsidies:
growth and social protection impacts & interactions (presentation, 2mb)
