Agriculture, food security, and nutrition in Malawi: Leveraging the links
Although 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 Mal...
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| author | Aberman, Noora-Lisa Meerman, Janice Benson, Todd |
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| description | Although 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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| spelling | CGSpace1455992025-11-06T07:09:03Z Agriculture, food security, and nutrition in Malawi: Leveraging the links Aberman, Noora-Lisa Meerman, Janice Benson, Todd impact capacity development agriculture smallholders malnutrition nutrition irrigation food security food prices poverty diet diversification Although 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. 2018-02-22 2024-06-21T09:04:43Z 2024-06-21T09:04:43Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145599 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149812 Open Access application/pdf application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Aberman, 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 |
| spellingShingle | impact capacity development agriculture smallholders malnutrition nutrition irrigation food security food prices poverty diet diversification Aberman, Noora-Lisa Meerman, Janice Benson, Todd Agriculture, food security, and nutrition in Malawi: Leveraging the links |
| title | Agriculture, food security, and nutrition in Malawi: Leveraging the links |
| title_full | Agriculture, food security, and nutrition in Malawi: Leveraging the links |
| title_fullStr | Agriculture, food security, and nutrition in Malawi: Leveraging the links |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agriculture, food security, and nutrition in Malawi: Leveraging the links |
| title_short | Agriculture, food security, and nutrition in Malawi: Leveraging the links |
| title_sort | agriculture food security and nutrition in malawi leveraging the links |
| topic | impact capacity development agriculture smallholders malnutrition nutrition irrigation food security food prices poverty diet diversification |
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