Malawi
Documents
[16/03/2013] The Green Belt Initiative and Land Grabs in Malawi
“The rationale of the GBI - Green Belt Initiative - is to ensure that the commercial farmers have access to large tracts of land for agriculture at the highest possible economies of scales. The...
News
[20/12/2012] Women and Land Zimbabwe - empowering women as farmers
(…) “When time to sell produce came, he would pocket all the money alone. When I  asked for my share, he would tell me it was his land and I must just continue working. He would...
News
[21/05/2012] Insights on Malawi's Economic Growth Strategy
Following democratization in 1994, the Malawi government put great emphasis on reducing poverty. The predominantly agrarian economy has had little rural-urban migration and Malawi’s current level of...
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[17/05/2012] From Under Their Feet. New paper on the gender dimensions of land grabbing in Africa
The paper builds on joint work by ActionAid and its local partners through the Women’s Land Rights (WOLAR) project, funded by the MDG3 Fund. It is informed by engagement of Southern African rural...
News
[28/11/2011] Victory for Women in Malawi - by Tamar Ezer
[From the OpenSociety Foundations] November has been a good month for women in Malawi. Parliament finally recognized that women have the right to inherit from the marital estate. In the past, after...
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[18/11/2011] Women and Land
Here it is an important book on Women’s Land Rights, published by the International Development Research Centre. The book’s authors, Debbie Budlender and Eileen Alma, also draw from...
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[14/09/2011] Review of the Land Reforms in Southern Africa 2010
This book forms part of a learning programme on ‘Land Reform From Below: Decentralised Land Reform in Southern Africa’. Supported by the Austrian Development Agency, the programme was launched in...
Documents
[14/09/2011] Review of the Land Reforms in Southern Africa 2010
This book forms part of a learning programme on ‘Land Reform From Below: Decentralised Land Reform in Southern Africa’. Supported by the Austrian Development Agency, the programme was launched in...
Documents
[02/09/2011] Women’s access to land and household bargaining power: a comparative action-research project in patrilineal and matrilineal societies in Malawi
WOLREC undertook this action research in order to enhance women’s bargaining power through improved access and control over land in the patrilineal and matrilineal communities in Southern and...
Events
[24/08/2011] Unleashing Agriculture’s Potential for Improved Nutrition and Health in Malawi
Location:  Lilongwe, Malawi Abstract The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security of Malawi and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), supported by Irish Aid and USAID,...
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