Abstract

In Malawi, recent success with input subsidies highlights how pro-poor public investments in maize productivity improvement can be made cost-effectively. This essay examines the circumstances, results, and implications from the 2005–2006 and 2006–2007 national input subsidy programs, and describes the experience of more intensive support undertaken by the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) in one district of southern Malawi.

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Food securitySubsidyGreen RevolutionProductivityAgricultural economicsGovernment (linguistics)Production (economics)PovertyAgricultureFood policyFood processingAgricultural productivityBiologyEconomicsEconomic growthEcologyMarket economy

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Year
2009
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article
Volume
7
Issue
1
Pages
e1000023-e1000023
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516
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Glenn Denning, Patrick Kabambe, Pedro A. Sánchez et al. (2009). Input Subsidies to Improve Smallholder Maize Productivity in Malawi: Toward an African Green Revolution. PLoS Biology , 7 (1) , e1000023-e1000023. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000023

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10.1371/journal.pbio.1000023