Adoption of fertiliser and hybrid seeds by smallholder maize farmers in Southern Malawi

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Insurance, Credit, and Technology Adoption: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi (2007, background): “In pre-release trials in mid-altitude areas of Malawi, DK 8051 had higher yield than all comparison varieties.”
Understanding the agricultural input landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa : recent plot, household, and community-level evidence (2014, methodology): “Using data from 1998, Clarke and Bishop (2002) report that 65 percent of land under cultivation was done by hand, 25 percent using draught animal technology (DAT), and 10 percent using engine power.”
Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Soil Conservation. Evidence from Malawi (2013, result): “This is in line with the ﬁndings of Chirwa (2005).”
Modern Rice Technologies and Productivity in the Philippines: Disentangling Technology from Managerial Gaps (2015, background): “Analysts have also looked at the impact of technology adoption and diffusion on smallholder productivity (e.g. Chirwa, 2005; Mariano et al., 2012).”
The impact of agricultural extension services in the context of a heavily subsidized input system: The case of Malawi (2018, background): “At the microeconomic level, our results are consistent with the studies of Chirwa (2005), Kampani (2011), and Tchale (2012). Chirwa (2005) found that contact with extension services was insignificant in explaining smallholder farmer adoption of inorganic fertilizers and hybrid maize seed in Machinga”