U-Turns and Full Circles: Two Decades of Agricultural Reform in Malawi 1981–2000

By J. Harrigan. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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Analyzing Nutritional Impacts of Policies: An Empirical Study for Malawi (2011, background): “The country has a long history of maize price regulations and has gone through several agricultural market reforms (Harrigan 2003, 2008).”
Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications of Imposed Innovation for the Wellbeing of Rural Smallholders (2016, background): “…material costs and vulnerabilities among poor smallholders or at best an inability to benefit from policies, in Malawi (Bezner Kerr, 2013; Harrigan, 2003), Ethiopia (Abro et al., 2014), Uganda (Kijima, Otsuka, & Sserunkuuma, 2011) and in Kenya’s Millennium Villages (Wanjala & Muradian,…”
Impact of Improved Maize Adoption on Welfare of Farm Households in Malawi: A Panel Data Analysis (2014, methodology): “But in the mid-nineties the credit and subsidy programs, upon which the country had been relying, were abandoned in response to conditions imposed by the structural adjustment programs (SAP) of the World Bank and IMF (Denning, et al., 1995; Harrigan, 2003).”
Rural livelihoods and poverty reduction policies. (2005, unknown): “It could be argued that part of the blame for this stagnation could be attributed to economic reforms themselves, in particular the removal of fertiliser subsidies and the scaling back of public investment in agricultural extension services, which has led to an increase in the riskiness of the econo”
Resilient Adaptation to Climate Change in African Agriculture (2010, background): “That reforms are needed to address the identified limitations is uncontested (Olajide / Oyelade 2002; Devereux 2002; Harrigan 2003; Mano / Isaacson / Dardel 2003; Tschirley et al. 2004).”
The Political Economy of Policies for Smallholder Agriculture (2010, background): “Malawi is a particularly interesting example for food-crop policies that took “U-turns and full circles” (Harrigan, 2003).”
Food insecurity, poverty and the Malawian Starter Pack: Fresh start or false start? (2008, background): “The debate between government and donors in Malawi regarding food security strategies has for years, if not for decades (Harrigan, 2003), been dominated by the issue of the relative role of government and the private sector.”