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Food Aid and Dependency : Implications for Emergency Food Security Assessments
Lentz, Erin; Barrett, Christopher B.; Hoddinott, John - 2012
: (i) to identify the pathways through which negative dependency might arise; (ii) to outline how the targeting and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217575
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Food Transfers, Cash Transfers, Behavior Change Communication and Child Nutrition : Evidence From Bangladesh
Ahmed, Akhter U.; Hoddinott, John; Roy, Shalini - 2019
The importance of children’s nutritional status for subsequent human capital formation, the limited evidence of the effectiveness of social protection interventions on child nutrition, and the absence of knowledge on the intra-household impacts of cash and food transfers or how they are shaped...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014103776
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Aid Effectiveness in Ghana : How’s the L’Aquila Food Security Initiative Doing?
Benin, Samuel; Makombe, Tsitsi; Johnson, Michael - 2014
This paper assesses the degree to which the L’Aquila Food Security Initiative (AFSI) has been implemented in Ghana within the framework of managing for development results (MfDR), and to evaluate progress in various outcomes, including economic governance, agricultural growth, poverty, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014142970
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The Food-Energy-Water Security Nexus : Definitions, Policies, and Methods in an Application to Malawi and Mozambique
Nielsen, Thea; Schünemann, Franziska; McNulty, Emily; … - 2016
. The FEW nexus is discussed in the context of Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) — using Malawi and Mozambique as case …, summarizing interventions with the FEW nexus approach in Malawi and Mozambique, we found that there are only a limited number of … aggregation and planning of the targeting. A secondary data analysis of nexus interventions shows that existing data is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014128995
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Transfers, Behavior Change Communication, and Intimate Partner Violence : Postprogram Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
Roy, Shalini - 2017
Transfer programs have been shown to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV), but little evidence exists on how activities linked to transfers affect IPV or what happens when programs end. We assess postprogram impacts on IPV of randomly assigning women in Bangladesh to receive cash or food, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948164
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Capacity and Accountability in the Agricultural Extension System in Malawi : Insights from a Survey of Service Providers in 15 Districts
Ragasa, Catherine; Mzungu, Diston; Kaima, Eric; … - 2017
(GSPs and non-GSPs, respectively) in 15 sample districts in Malawi. Together with the recently published report that looks … at farmers’ perspective, this report is aimed for use by various stakeholders in Malawi, especially in the review of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119564
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A Farm-Level Perspective of the Policy Challenges for Export Diversification in Malawi : Example of the Oilseeds and Maize Sectors
Johnson, Michael; Edelman, Brent; Kazembe, Cynthia - 2016
systems of the majority smallholder farmers in Malawi. Using representative farm models, the study examines the potential for … expanding production of soybeans among typical smallholder farming systems in Malawi. The results will help guide future … malnutrition in Malawi. Given the amount of labor and land resources allocated to maize production for food security purposes, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014125519
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Dynamics in Agricultural Extension Services Provision in Malawi : Insights from Two Rounds of Household and Community Panel Surveys
Ragasa, Catherine; Comstock, Andrew - 2019
The Government of Malawi is in the process of developing its National Agricultural Extension Strategy. Two rounds of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014104901
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A Critical Review of Malawi’s Special Crops Act and Agriculture (General Purposes) Act
Comstock, Andrew; Benson, Todd; Nankhuni, Flora; … - 2019
This report is a critical review of two of the principal agricultural laws in Malawi, the Special Crops Act and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014108520
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Agriculture Support Services in Malawi : Direct Effects, Complementarities, and Time Dynamics
Ambler, Kate - 2018
Using a randomized controlled trial, we examine the impacts of cash and input transfers, and a cross-randomized program of intensive agricultural extension over two years. We find large effects on the total value of agricultural production from the transfers (both cash and inputs) in both years....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912108