Essays about: "malawi"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 107 essays containing the word malawi.

  1. 21. Income Diversification and Welfare, a Way Out of Rural Poverty? A Study on Three Commercialized Regions in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Malawi

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Andreas Nord; [2020]
    Keywords : Income Diversification; Welfare; Rural; Commercialized; Sub-Saharan Africa; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper aims to extend the understanding of the connection between household income diversification and welfare in the rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa. I perform a comparative analysis and investigate three commercialized rural regions in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Malawi, which are countries with diverging economic development over the last decades. READ MORE

  3. 22. Agricultural resilience building at the farm level in Malawi : the relevance of indigenous knowledge

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Jana Schmidt; [2020]
    Keywords : climate change adaptation; agriculture; indigenous knowledge; resilience building; Malawi; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Anthropogenic climate change poses new challenges to smallholder farmers in the Global South. At the farm level, science-based adaptation measures, as well as farmers’ autonomous responses based on indigenous knowledge, are simultaneously in use. READ MORE

  4. 23. Exploring the Role of Aid in the Malawian and Zambian Health Sectors : To what extent does development assistance contribute to aid dependency in Malawi and Zambia?

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Utveckling och internationellt samarbete

    Author : Rosie Wandjowo; [2020]
    Keywords : Malawi; Zambia; Dependency Theory; Development Assistance for Health; Universal Health Coverage; Health Aid; Maternal Health; Sustainable Development Goals;

    Abstract : Aid is an important topic in development sector current discussions are polarised thereby creating a need for further research. This essay assesses the role that Malawi and Zambia plays in realising its development outcomes including in the area of health. READ MORE

  5. 24. Materialisation of emergent farmers in a Malawian context : a privileged class’ positioning in agricultural transformation

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Gustav Broms; [2020]
    Keywords : capital accumulation; surplus value; food regime; patronage; differentiation; livelihood; diversification; food security;

    Abstract : Emergent farmers have rapidly increased in numbers on the sub-Saharan African continent during the last couple of decades. The main interest in this study lies in how emergent farmers have materialised as a class in a political economic context and historical process and what societal impact they have had. READ MORE

  6. 25. TURN THE LIGHTS ON: A multilevel analysis of sustainable energy implementation in the global south: The case of Monkey Bay, Malawi

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies

    Author : Zoe Anna Elsner; [2020]
    Keywords : Sustainable energy; sustainable development; Techno-Anthropology; Actor-Network theory; SDG7; Malawi; case study; ethnography; multilevel analysis; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Nation-wide access to sustainable energy is central to socio-economic development in Malawi. It is particularly challenging in rural areas where a significant amount of the population does not have access to energy, let alone sustainable energy. READ MORE