Burley Tobacco Clubs in Malawi: Nonmarket Institutions For Exports
Burley Tobacco Clubs in Malawi: Nonmarket Institutions For Exports

Author: Mariano Negri

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 45

ISBN-13:

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Abstract: This paper studies nonmarket institutions that facilitate exports. In Malawi, as in many other developing countries, farmers face numerous constraints that disconnect them from export markets. The paper explores the role of a local institution, the burley tobacco clubs, in bridging smallholders to exports. Burley clubs potentially enable farmers to increase their tobacco farming productivity by providing services related to institutional access, collective action, economies of scale, and supporting network. Using matching methods and instrumental variable techniques, the authors find that tobacco club membership causes an increase of between 40-74 percent in output per acre and an increase of between 45-89 percent in tobacco sales per acre. Instead, neither the land share allocated to tobacco nor the unit value obtained by the producers is affected by club membership.

A History of Malawi, 1859-1966
A History of Malawi, 1859-1966

Author: John McCracken

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 1847010504

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This title features a general history of Malawi, focusing mainly on the colonial period, when it was know as Nyassaland, but placing that period in the context of the pre-colonial past.

Homage to Peasant Smallholders
Homage to Peasant Smallholders

Author: Brian Morris

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2022-07-22

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 9996066096

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This book offers the reader a portrait - a representation no less - of the social life and culture of the peasant-smallholders of the Shire Highlands, situated in Southern Malawi. It explores the relationship between the people of the Shire Highlands and the natural landscape - in all its diversity and dynamic complexity. It is an ethnographic study focussing specifically on the peasant-smallholders of the Highlands, who constitute around 80 per cent of the current population and their complex, multi-faceted relationship to the land and its diverse biota.

Tobacco, Transformation and Development Dilemmas from Central Africa
Tobacco, Transformation and Development Dilemmas from Central Africa

Author: Martin Prowse

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-12-10

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 3030339858

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This book takes the reader through the expansion, restructuring and possible salvation of Malawi’s main industry, tobacco. Malawi has been dependent on tobacco exports for a century, but now, with demand for Malawian tobacco declining fast, the country needs to diversify rapidly. The authors combine an innovative range of theory and methods to provide a comprehensive and incisive analysis of the dilemmas faced by countries which still rely on a limited number of agricultural commodities in the 21st century. This work will be ideal for scholars and researchers interested in political economy and African development.

Agricultural Input Subsidies
Agricultural Input Subsidies

Author: Ephraim Chirwa

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-09-26

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0199683522

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This book takes forward our understanding of agricultural input subsidies in low income countries.

Beyond Impunity
Beyond Impunity

Author: R. Ross

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2022-01-09

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9996076083

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This comprehensive, compelling, accessible and timely volume should be compulsory reading to academics, policy makers, social activists, and the general public in Malawi and elsewhere on the continent. The accounts the authors present of the pervasive dysfunctions of Malawi's troubled experiment with multiparty democracy since the mid-1990s, and the endlessly deferred dreams of development, are often dispiriting. Yet, their bleak diagnoses are often accompanied by ameliorative prescriptions that are simultaneously bold and pragmatic. The book exudes a sense of hope that the struggles for a better future will continue. In itself the book represents a testament to the possibilities of the country's democratic dispensation, the need to unflinchingly confront the country's debilitating political and socioeconomic pathologies. Such a text would have been unthinkable during the dictatorship of the founding president, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda.