The Malawi agricultural input subsidy programme: 2005/06 to 2008/09
By A. Dorward, E. Chirwa. 2011
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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
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- Shaping agricultural innovation systems responsive to food insecurity and climate change (2011, background): “…hybrid seeds and inorganic fertilisers as a way to break the ''low equilibrium poverty cycle' of unproductive, subsistence maize cultivation (Dorward and Chirwa 2011; Levy 2005), it has also functioned as a longer term social protection mechanism which reduces the need for food aid, for…”
- Impact of Improved Maize Adoption on Welfare of Farm Households in Malawi: A Panel Data Analysis (2014, background): “The core objective of the input subsidy is to increase resource poor farmers’ access to improved agricultural inputs (Dorward & Chirwa, 2011).”
- An innovation systems approach to institutional change: Smallholder development in West Africa (2012, background): “Similar, larger-scale programmes, which create special circumstances in terms of interlinked services for the production of food staples, have been successful in ensuring national food security, as demonstrated for Malawi (Dorward and Chirwa, 2011) and Mali (Sasakawa Africa Association, 2010, p. 10)”
- How does population density influence agricultural intensification and productivity? Evidence from Malawi (2014, background): “9 For a thorough review of input subsidies in Malawi see Dorward and Chirwa (2011) and Lunduka et al. (2013). maize prices, agricultural intensification and household wellbeing.”
- From protection to production: productive impacts of the Malawi Social Cash Transfer scheme (2012, background): “This large-scale programme has been found to increase national maize production and productivity, contributing to increased food availability, higher real wages and wider economic growth and poverty reduction (Dorward and Chirwa 2011).”
- The State of Family Farms in the World (2016, background): “Approximately half of all calories consumed by smallholder farmers come from their own food production (Dorward & Chirwa, 2011).”
- The impact of agricultural extension services in the context of a heavily subsidized input system: The case of Malawi (2018, background): “Malawi spent an annual average of 9.8 percent of its national budget subsidizing fertilizer and seed between 2005/2006 and 2008/2009, and these subsidies accounted for a large share of agricultural spending (Dorward and Chirwa 2011).”
- Sustainable intensification in agricultural systems. (2014, background): “The Malawi fertilizer subsidy programme is a rare example of a national policy that has led to substantial changes in farm use of fertilizers and the rapid shift of the country from food deficit to food exporter (Dorward and Chirwa, 2011).”
- IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF USE OF SMALL AMOUNTS OF NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS FERTILISER ON SMALLHOLDER MAIZE IN CENTRAL MALAWI (2013, background): “…subsidy programme (FISP) began in 2005, which has improved access to fertiliser in much of Malawi, with subsequent benefits to food production, food availability and poverty reduction, but this has proved costly and a challenge to sustain (Dorward and Chirwa, 2011; Government of Malawi, 2008).”
- Social Protection for Enhanced Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa (2012, background): “A recent review of the first four years of MAISP concluded that it “led to significant increases in national maize production and productivity, and this has contributed to increased food availability, higher real wages and wider economic growth and poverty reduction” (Dorward and Chirwa, 2011: 232).”