Starter packs : a strategy to fight hunger in developing countries? : lessons from the Malawi experience 1998-2003 /

This book is about the Starter Pack/Targeted Inputs Programme, which was implemented in Malawi from the 1998-99 agricultural season to the 2003/04 season. The original idea of Starter Pack was to give a bag of free agricultural inputs (fertilizer and seed) to every smallholder farmer in Malawi. Alth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Levy, Sarah, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., ©2005.
Colección:CAB books.
Temas:
Agricultural assistance > Malawi.
Agricultural development projects > Malawi.
Economic development projects > Malawi.
Food supply > Malawi > International cooperation.
Food relief > Malawi.
Assistance agricole > Malawi.
Projets de développement agricole > Malawi.
Projets de développement économique > Malawi.
Aliments > Approvisionnement > Malawi > Coopération internationale.
Aide alimentaire > Malawi.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Agribusiness.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Sustainable Agriculture.
Agricultural development.
Agricultural policy.
Case studies.
Crop production.
Development programmes.
Evaluation.
Farm inputs.
Food security.
Hunger.
Small farms.
Agricultural assistance
Agricultural development projects
Economic development projects
Food relief
Food supply > International cooperation
Malawi
ontwikkelingsprojecten
development projects
kleine landbouwbedrijven
small farms
voedselzekerheid
food security
voedselhulp
food aid
input van landbouwbedrijf
farm inputs
ontwikkelingsbeleid
development policy
ontwikkelingslanden
developing countries
malawi
Development Projects
Ontwikkelingsprojecten
CD-ROMs.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The origin and concept of the starter pack / Malcolm Blackie and Charles K. Mann
  • The players and the policy issues / Harry Potter
  • The logistics and costs of implementation / Charles Clark
  • Pack distribution and the role of vouchers / Anthony Cullen and Max Lawson
  • Design of the evaluation programme / Ian M. Wilson
  • Experience and innovation : how the research methods evolved / Carlos Barahona
  • Lessons on management of large-scale research programmes / Sarah Levy
  • Production, prices and food security : how starter pack works / Sarah Levy
  • The farmer's perspective : values, incentives and constraints / Jan Kees van Donge
  • Do free inputs crowd out the private sector in agricultural input markets? / Clement Nyirongo
  • Practical and policy dilemmas of targeting free inputs / Blessings Chinsinga
  • Starter pack and sustainable agriculture / Carlos Barahona and Elizabeth Cromwell
  • The challenges of agricultural extension / Chris Garforth
  • Why free inputs failed in the winter season / Hiester Gondwe
  • Financing and macro-economic impact : how does starter pack compare? / Sarah Levy
  • Poverty, AIDS and food crisis / Anne C. Conroy
  • Food security policies and starter pack : a challenge for donors? / Jane Harrigan
  • Feeding Malawi from neighbouring countries / Martin J. Whiteside
  • Starter pack in rural development strategies / Andrew Dorward and Jonathan Kydd.

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