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Trends and Outlook: Agricultural Water Management in southern Africa. Country report - Malawi. [Project report submitted to United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Feed the Future Program].

Reports & Research
December 2015
Malawi
Southern Africa
poverty
climate change
natural resources management
water management
farmers
agriculture

Regional developments [In 2014-2015 Global food policy report]

Peer-reviewed publication
Journal Articles & Books
December 2015
Southern Africa
Central Asia
South America
Africa
Asia
Western Africa
Eastern Africa
Southern Africa
Southern Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
Central Asia
South America
Africa
Asia
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land Conflicts
agricultural and rural legislation
food security
land policies
women
agriculture
research
rural areas
poverty
climate change
environment
fisheries
rural development
youth
water management
land conflicts
farmers
land use
land rights
land tenure
land tenure systems
capacity development

In addition to global developments and food policy changes, 2014 also saw important developments with potentially wide repercussions in individual countries and regions. This chapter offers perspectives on major food policy developments in various regions including Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

Temporal Analysis of Elephant-Induced Thicket Degradation in Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Journal Articles & Books
December 2015
South Africa
Southern Africa
land cover

Elephant-induced thicket degradation in the Addo Elephant National Park (AENP), Eastern Cape, South Africa, was assessed during 1973 and 2010 using multitemporal satellite imagery. Changes in the thicket condition, in relation to the AENP expansion, were analyzed using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, postclassification, and landscape metrics.

Smallholder goat production and marketing: A gendered baseline study from Inhassoro District Mozambique

Journal Articles & Books
December 2015
Mozambique
Africa
Southern Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land
rangelands

Despite emerging public and donor attention on women and agriculture, relatively few studies are based on gender analysis of sex-disaggregated quantitative data, particularly on women's involvement in marketing of livestock products.

Trends and Outlook: Agricultural Water Management in southern Africa. Country report - South Africa. [Project report submitted to United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Feed the Future Program].

Reports & Research
December 2015
South Africa
Southern Africa
food security
poverty
climate change
natural resources management
water management
agriculture

repeat photograph analysis of long‐term vegetation change in semi‐arid South Africa in response to land use and climate

Journal Articles & Books
December 2015
South Africa
Southern Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
land use
land degradation

QUESTIONS: How has the vegetation of the major biomes (Grassland, Nama‐karoo, Albany Thicket, Azonal) of southeastern South Africa changed over the course of the 20th century? How do changes in climate and land‐use drivers relate to long‐term changes in vegetation? What are the implications of these findings for land degradation hypotheses and future climate change projections for the region?

Trends and Outlook: Agricultural Water Management in southern Africa. Country report - Zambia. [Project report submitted to United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Feed the Future Program].

Reports & Research
December 2015
Zambia
Southern Africa
farmers associations
natural resources management
water management
agriculture

Measuring the forest and income impacts of forest user group participation under Malawi's Forest Co-management Program

Peer-reviewed publication
Journal Articles & Books
December 2015
Southern Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
Africa
Malawi
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
forestry
forest conservation
agriculture
agricultural land management
community forestry
land management
community land rights
forest management plans

Trends and Outlook: Agricultural Water Management in southern Africa. Country report - Zimbabwe. [Project report submitted to United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Feed the Future Program].

Reports & Research
December 2015
Zimbabwe
Southern Africa
water management
poverty
farmers