Starter packs : a strategy to fight hunger in developing countries? : lessons from the Malawi experience 1998-2003 /

This book is about the Starter Pack/Targeted Inputs Programme, which was implemented in Malawi from the 1998-99 agricultural season to the 2003/04 season. The original idea of Starter Pack was to give a bag of free agricultural inputs (fertilizer and seed) to every smallholder farmer in Malawi. Alth...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	C.A.B. International
Other Authors:	Levy, Sarah, 1964-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., [2005]
Subjects:	Agricultural assistance > Malawi. Agricultural development projects > Malawi. Economic development projects > Malawi. Food supply > Malawi > International cooperation. Food relief > Malawi. Hunger. Public Assistance. Developing Countries. Food Supply. Malawi. Ebooks. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

The origin and concept of the starter pack
The players and the policy issues
The logistics and costs of implementation
Pack distribution and the role of vouchers
Design of the evaluation programme
Experience and innovation : how the research methods evolved
Lessons on management of large-scale research programmes
Production, prices and food security : how starter pack works
The farmer's perspective : values, incentives and constraints
Do free inputs crowd out the private sector in agricultural input markets?
Practical and policy dilemmas of targeting free inputs
Starter pack and sustainable agriculture
The challenges of agricultural extension
Why free inputs failed in the winter season
Financing and macro-economic impact : how does starter pack compare?
Poverty, AIDS and food crisis
Food security policies and starter pack : a challenge for donors?
Feeding Malawi from neighbouring countries
Starter pack in rural development strategies.