Agriculture, food security, and nutrition in Malawi: Leveraging the links

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dc.creatorAberman, Noora-Lisa
dc.creatorMeerman, Janice
dc.creatorBenson, Todd
dc.date2018-02-22
dc.date2024-06-21T09:04:43Z
dc.date2024-06-21T09:04:43Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:31:22Z
dc.descriptionAlthough the Malawian food supply is shaped largely by trends in smallholder food crop production, Ma-lawi’s decades-long focus on improving smallholder productivity has only moderately improved food secu-rity and nutrition outcomes. Country statistics indicate an estimated 36.7 percent of rural Malawian house-holds failed to access sufficient calories between 2010 and 2011. During the same period, 47 percent of children under the age of five years were esti-mated to be stunted in their growth. These indicators imply that some Malawian diets are lacking in terms of quantity (total calories consumed), and most are lacking in terms of quality (sufficient calories derived from nutrient-dense foods, such as meat, fish, eggs, dairy, legumes, fruits, and vegetables). Good nutrition requires both enough total calories (quantity) and enough vitamins and minerals per calorie (quality). How can Malawi better leverage its smallholder agriculture sector to improve nutrition? This report provides a series of primary and secondary data anal-yses that examine different aspects of this question.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/145599
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/106818
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/149812
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceAberman, Noora-Lisa, ed.; Meerman, Janice, ed.; Benson, Todd, ed. 2018. Agriculture, food security, and nutrition in Malawi: Leveraging the links. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145599
dc.subjectimpact
dc.subjectcapacity development
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectsmallholders
dc.subjectmalnutrition
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjectirrigation
dc.subjectfood security
dc.subjectfood prices
dc.subjectpoverty
dc.subjectdiet
dc.subjectdiversification
dc.titleAgriculture, food security, and nutrition in Malawi: Leveraging the links
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