Input Subsidies to Improve Smallholder Maize Productivity in Malawi: Toward an African Green Revolution

Glenn Denning; Patrick Kabambe; Pedro A. Sánchez; Alia Malik; Rafael Flor; Rebbie Harawa; Phelire Nkhoma; Colleen Zamba; Clement Banda; Chrispin Magombo; Michael Keating; Justine Wangila; Jeffrey D. Sachs

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000023

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
Type: article
Volume: 7
Issue: 1
Pages: e1000023-e1000023
Citations: 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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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000023