Agricultural input subsidies : : the recent Malawi experience / / Ephraim Chirwa, Andrew Dorward.

• VerfasserIn: Chirwa, Ephraim,; Dorward, Andrew,
• TeilnehmendeR: Dorward, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : Oxford Scholarship Online,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 298 pages) :; illustrations
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This title provides a detailed, comprehensive, and objective analysis of Malawi's agricultural input subsidy programme, its history, implementation, achievements, and shortcomings.

Table of Contents

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Background: challenges in African agricultural development; 1.2. Objectives and outline; 1.3. Data and methods; Part I. Background; 2. Agricultural input subsidies: changing theory and practice; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. 'Conventional' input subsidies in agricultural development-theory and practice; 2.3. Resurgent interest in input subsidies; 2.4. Input subsidies' successes, failures, and potential; 2.5. Input subsidies' roles and objectives; 2.6. Design and implementation features

2.7. Conditions affecting effectiveness2.8. Rethinking input subsidies: a conceptual framework; 3. Recent African experience with input subsidies; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Ghana; 3.3. Zambia Fertilizer Support Programme and Food Security Pack; 3.4. Nigeria; 3.5. Tanzania; 3.6. Rwanda; 3.7. Mali and Senegal; 3.8. Millennium Villages; 3.9. Overall lessons; 3.10. Conclusions from recent experience; 4. Malawi: political, policy, livelihoods, and market background; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. The context; 4.3. Politics and policies; 4.4. The livelihoods and markets context; 4.5. Agricultural policies

4.6. The 2005/6 Agricultural Input Subsidy Programme4.7. Summary; Part II. Implementation and Impacts of the Malawi Programme; 5. FISP activities and achievements; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Programme design and evolution; 5.3. Input purchases and distribution; 5.4. Coupon distribution; 5.5. Coupon redemption; 5.6. Diversion and fraud; 5.7. Farmer support; 5.8. Programme finance and costs; 5.9. Summary; 6. Direct impacts of input subsidies; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. Methods of evaluating direct beneficiary impacts; 6.3. Impacts on maize production; 6.4. Impact on food consumption

6.5. Impacts on education and health6.6. Welfare impacts; 6.7. Impacts in life stories of beneficiary households; 6.8. Summary; 7. Economy-wide effects of input subsidies; 7.1. Introduction; 7.2. Sources of evidence and analytical methods; 7.3. Macro-economic environment and role of input subsidies; 7.4. Maize exports and imports; 7.5. Impacts on maize prices and rural wages; 7.6. Other variables; 7.7. Summary; 8. Impacts on input market development; 8.1. Introduction; 8.2. Roles of various players in input supply systems; 8.3. Overall input purchase and use

8.4. Developments in the fertilizer markets8.5. Developments in the seed market; 8.6. Challenges and opportunities of private sector participation; 8.7. Summary; 9. Benefit-cost analysis, 2006/7 to 2010/11; 9.1. Introduction; 9.2. Benefit-cost analysis purposes and principles; 9.3. Benefit-cost analysis methods; 9.4. Problems and challenges with benefit-cost analysis (BCA) of the FISP; 9.5. Improving FISP benefit-cost estimates; 9.6. Summary; Part III. Strategic issues; 10. Targeting and access to input subsidies; 10.1. Introduction

10.2. Targeting at national, district, and beneficiary levels