مورد إلكتروني
Employment options and challenges for rural households in Malawi: An agriculture and rural employment analysis of the fifth Malawi Integrated Household Survey, 2019/10
| العنوان: | Employment options and challenges for rural households in Malawi: An agriculture and rural employment analysis of the fifth Malawi Integrated Household Survey, 2019/10 |
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| بيانات النشر: | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Washington, DC 2023 |
| تفاصيل مُضافة: | National Policies and Strategies Benson, Todd; De Weerdt, Joachim https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5572-3332 De Weerdt, Joachim Is Format Of Google Books http://books.google.com/books/about?id=ae-yEAAAQBAJ Google Play https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=ae-yEAAAQBAJ |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Electronic Resource |
| وصف مادي: | 131 pages 5953358 Bytes |
| مستخلص: | Non-PR IFPRI1; 4 Transforming Agricultural and Rural Economies; MaSSP Development Strategies (DS); Transformation Strategies Malawi has suffered from weak economic growth since its independence in 1964. Over 50 percentof the population live below the poverty line, unable to produce enough or to otherwise obtain sufficient income to meet all of their basic needs. Poverty is concentrated in rural areas. Smallholder agriculture dominates employment in rural Malawi. However, with continuing population growth, the average landholding size for smallholder farming households is declining, resulting in many being unable to produce sufficient food to meet their own needs. To escape poverty, rural households increasingly must diversify their sources of income, but many lack the human and financial capital to do so. In this report, a detailed examination is provided of the agricultural production, non-farm employment patterns, and overall incomes obtained by farming households across Malawi using data from the fifth Malawi Integrated Household Survey (IHS5), conducted in 2019/20. The analysis demonstrates that most poor farming households will never be able to escape poverty through their farming alone, even with substantially higher crop productivity. Rainfed cropping remains the primary form of agricultural production for farming households in Malawi. While increasing numbers are engaging in irrigated farming during the dry season, the returns from such farming are inconsistent and low. More importantly, off-farm income sources, particularly temporary ganyu wage employment, are now critical to the livelihoods of most rural households, particularly those with small cropland holdings. The common assumption that agriculture is at the center of the livelihoods of rural households across Malawi no longer holds. Of equal importance is their ability to obtain sufficiently remunerative off-farm employment. In developing strategies for rural economic and human development in Malawi, accelerating agricultural production growth, particularly through increased productivity, and increasing the returns to farmi |
| الموضوعات: | economic growth; poverty; income; rural areas; smallholder agriculture; employment; population growth; food; agricultural production; farming; irrigation; off farm employment; development strategies |
| مصطلحات الفهرس: | MALAWI; SOUTHERN AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA; AFRICA, economic growth; poverty; income; rural areas; smallholder agriculture; employment; population growth; food; agricultural production; farming; irrigation; off farm employment; development strategies, Working paper, Working paper, Working Paper |
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| الإتاحة: | Open access content. Open access content This publication was originally published in March 2023, and revised in April 2023. |
| ملاحظة: | English English |
| أرقام أخرى: | DFP oai:cdm15738.contentdm.oclc.org:p15738coll2/136607 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136607 10.2499/p15738coll2.136607 https://www.ifpri.org/publication/employment-options-and-challenges-rural-households-malawi-agriculture-and-rural 136607 1373787098 |
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