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The Political Economy of Adaptation through Crop Diversification in Malawi

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  • Blessings Chinsinga
  • Ronald Mangani
  • Peter Mvula

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This article demonstrates the politics of the policy processes of adaptation using the case of crop diversification. Competing narratives among different actors illustrate the complexity of practically translating crop diversification in practice. The context in which policy processes take place matter a great deal since adaptation policies' chance of success cannot be judged abstractly in their theoretical or technical attributes without considering the institutional, political and cultural context in which they are applied. This draws attention to the fact that policy processes are less of a linear sequence but more of a political process, underpinned by a complex mesh of interactions and ramifications between a wide range of stakeholders who are driven and constrained by the competing interests and contexts in which they operate.

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  • Blessings Chinsinga & Ronald Mangani & Peter Mvula, 2011. "The Political Economy of Adaptation through Crop Diversification in Malawi," IDS Bulletin, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 42(3), pages 110-117, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:idsxxx:v:42:y:2011:i:3:p:110-117
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    1. Julia Smith & Jennifer Fang, 2020. "‘If you kill tobacco, you kill Malawi’: Structural barriers to tobacco diversification for sustainable development," Sustainable Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 28(6), pages 1575-1583, November.
    2. Graeub, Benjamin E. & Chappell, M. Jahi & Wittman, Hannah & Ledermann, Samuel & Kerr, Rachel Bezner & Gemmill-Herren, Barbara, 2016. "The State of Family Farms in the World," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 87(C), pages 1-15.
    3. Schaafsma, Marije & Ferrini, Silvia & Turner, R. Kerry, 2019. "Assessing smallholder preferences for incentivised climate-smart agriculture using a discrete choice experiment," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
    4. Sally Brooks, 2014. "Enabling adaptation? Lessons from the new ‘Green Revolution’ in Malawi and Kenya," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 122(1), pages 15-26, January.
    5. Ephraim W. Chirwa & Blessings Chinsinga, 2013. "Dealing with the 2007/08 Global Food Price Crisis: the Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Malawi," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2013-030, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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