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Input Subsidies to Improve Smallholder Maize Productivity in Malawi: Toward an African Green Revolution
Recent hikes in food prices have created economic and social turmoil in many African countries. But in Malawi, fertilizer and seed subsidies have enabled small-scale farmers to improve maize productivity and achieve food security
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The African Millennium Villages
We describe the concept, strategy and initial results of the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) and implications regarding sustainability and scalability. Our underlying hypothesis is that the interacting crises of agriculture, health, and infrastructure in rural Africa can be overcome through targeted public-sector investments to raise rural productivity, and thereby to increased private-sector saving and investments. This is carried out by empowering impoverished communities with science-based interventions. 78 Millennium Villages have been initiated in 12 sites in 10 African countries, each representing a major agroecological zone In early results, the research villages in Kenya, Ethiopia and Malawi have reduced malaria prevalence, met caloric requirements, generated crop surpluses, enabled school feeding programs, and provided cash earnings for farm families
National Maize Production and Maize Food Requirement over 25 Years
<p>Compiled from [<a href="http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000023#pbio-1000023-b009" target="_blank">9</a>,<a href="http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000023#pbio-1000023-b049" target="_blank">49</a>]. Unusual dips and spikes in maize requirement are a reflection of inconsistency in methods of national population determination.</p