Protect food security with irrigation in Malawi The green belt program seeks to make Malawi independent of rain-fed agriculture. The plan is to protect the gains in food security, reduce vulnerability to drought, diversify crops and to boost production by irrigation, using the Lake Malawi-Shire River stretch. The land holding is through the creation of [...]
Archive for February, 2010
February 2010 Newsflashes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food security, land reform, newsflash on February 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Budget speech dates around Africa
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged budgets on February 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Idasa has compiled a listing of budget speech release dates for countries around Africa. Liberia 30 April 2010 Zambia 1st week October 2010 Ghana 01 November 2010 Malawi 28 May 2010 Countries still unconfirmed: Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania, Mali, Senegal For more details, contact Leslie Nyagah at lnyagah@idasa.org.za
Governance and small holder farming in Southern Africa
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Africa, African farmers, agricultural policy, budgets, governance, participation, poverty, rural livelihoods on February 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Conference Report By Viola Musiimenta, Poverty Eradication and Livelihood Improvement Programme – DENIVA African small scale farmers and farming has been a subject of debate amongst several stakeholders-including politicians, professionals, private sector and civil society activists. Such debates, while recognising the current central roles of the small scale farmers have raised concerns about whether small [...]
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