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Papers by Patrick Kambewa

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 2009

The objectives of this study were first, to understand the market chain of fish as traded by wome... more The objectives of this study were first, to understand the market chain of fish as traded by women in the south-eastern Arm of Lake Malawi, with a specific focus on analyzing how fish is moved from the lake to the wholesale market. Secondly, the study identifies HIV/AIDS vulnerability factors along this market chain i.e. from the point of catch to the wholesale market.

International journal of disaster risk reduction, Aug 1, 2021

Abstract As climate-related shocks on agriculture production intensify, weather index crop insura... more Abstract As climate-related shocks on agriculture production intensify, weather index crop insurance has emerged as one potential risk management strategy for farmers. Nevertheless, sustainable uptake of this risk management strategy will largely depend on farmers’ willingness to pay for the associated premiums. This study identifies various socio-economic factors that influence farmers' purchase of index insurance for staple food in rural Malawi. It further establishes an associated willingness to pay per hectare per cropping season. We use a hypothetical rainfall index insurance program to estimate insurance demand. The study highlights several determinants of willingness to pay for an index insurance product. Results suggest that gender, the previous record of climate shocks, extension contact, and access to remittances significantly influence willingness-to-pay for weather index insurance for a staple food crop. Both parametric and non-parametric estimates of willingness-to-pay are in the range of US$5.5 to US$15 per hectare per cropping season. At the infancy stage, government subsidies for insurance premium and linkage of premium payments to Village Savings Groups will be crucial.

Education Quarterly Reviews

The study assessed the implementation of the Malawi nation reading Programme's theoretical gr... more The study assessed the implementation of the Malawi nation reading Programme's theoretical grounding and its localisation based on context. The methodology included a standardised reading assessment that tested the ability of children to read and regressed contextual factors to examine how they contributed to the reading skills of pupils. Results showed that the programme was well grounded in theory but lacked awareness of the implementation context. Therefore, the study recommends a balance of effort and investment in the implementation of reading programmes for optimal and sustained reading skill gains by pupils.

Land Degradation & Development, 2004

This paper examines the determinants of farmers' willingness to pay for soil conservation pra... more This paper examines the determinants of farmers' willingness to pay for soil conservation practices in the highlands of Bale, southeast Ethiopia. The paper is based on analysis of data collected from 100 randomly selected household heads. The study applied Contingent Valuation Method for the purpose of eliciting farmers' valuation of soil conservation practices in terms of both cash payment and labour contribution. The results reveal that farmers in the study area are less willing to pay cash for soil conservation measures. In terms of labour contribution, however, it was found that they are willing to spend a substantial amount of time per week. Results from logistic regression analysis show that farmers' decisions to participate in soil conservation practices are influenced by a host of factors. The implication is that taking these factors into account while planning soil conservation measures enables policy makers to come up with projects that win acceptance by the lo...

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2010

in-country groups and international partners currently active in seven African and three Asian co... more in-country groups and international partners currently active in seven African and three Asian countries. The FGLG tries to connect those marginalised from forest governance with those in charge of it, and to help both work together better. Malawi established its own FGLG in 2004 with assistance from the International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED), funded initially by the British government's Department for International Development (DFID) and later by the European Community (EC) and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS). In the financial year April 2007-March 2008, the international FGLG alliance prioritised thematic learning with a focus on 'Making small enterprises work better for social justice in forestry'. This report constitutes Malawi's contribution to both national and international learning groups. This exciting assignment gave the researchers that rare opportunity to be in touch with the people who are directly engaged in small and medium forest enterprises (SMFEs). The researchers would like to thank various government departments and sectors for providing information which was crucial to their understanding of the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in general and SMFEs in particular. Various organisations involved in forest-based enterprises were also very helpful in providing information and for that the researchers are thankful. Last but not least, the researchers would like to acknowledge the input and the support they received from the people directly involved in SMEs. Although in some cases the interviews started with some scepticism on the part of the respondents, eventually they provided the researchers with very helpful information.

Journal of Applied Sciences, Oct 15, 2007

Legumes are a major important source of protein in Malawi where animal protein is scarce and expe... more Legumes are a major important source of protein in Malawi where animal protein is scarce and expensive. Among the legumes, beans are a major crop. A subsector study was conducted to examine the vertical set of activities from production, through distribution to consumption. The study revealed that generally smallholder farmers do not use inputs such as fertilizer or pesticides unlike in other crops, the Government does not provide credit for the inputs in beans. The majority of the farmers face seed shortage as a major constraint. While beans are generally grown for consumption and for sale, farmers differ the extent to which they rely on beans for sale. Generally, farmers in the areas without any lucrative crop and near urban areas will rely on beans as a major cash crop. The majority of the consumers rely on the market for getting beans. What influences marketing forces is poorly understood as not much research has been conducted to understand consumer behavior. Whereas earlier re...

Journal of Pharmacy and Alternative Medicine, 2015

Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) is one of the measures used in the fight of HIV and AIDS i... more Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) is one of the measures used in the fight of HIV and AIDS in Malawi. WHO/UNAIDS/UNICEF (2011) estimated that about 440,000 to 510,000 people living with HIV and AIDS in Malawi were not getting treatment. This could be the case because they did not know their HIV status. Knowing the factors that lead people to seek Voluntary Counseling and Testing services in Malawi could demystify this. This study therefore investigated the determinants of Voluntary Counseling and Testing for HIV and AIDS among men and women in Malawi. The principal research focus was on the socio-economic and socio-demographic factors that determine one’s need to demand VCT services. A logistic regression model was used due to the categorical nature of the dependent variable i.e. whether one was tested or not. Among women, the variables age, residence, education, marital status, employment, mode of employment and lifetime number of sexual partners were found to be significan...

Handbook of Climate Change Management, 2021

African Journal of Business Management, 2018

There continues to be a lack of a commonly agreed perspective of entrepreneurship despite the con... more There continues to be a lack of a commonly agreed perspective of entrepreneurship despite the concept being studied for a long period of time. Definitions of the concept and constructs of study in the field have depended on the researcher's conceptualisation of what constitutes entrepreneurship and as a result there are variations in the study focus and measurement of entrepreneurship. An analysis of literature was therefore conducted to untangle the concept of entrepreneurship towards a common perspective despite similar failed attempts by scholars in the past. The analysis showed that researchers and theorists trace entrepreneurship through the same early theorists that include Cantillon, Say, Marshall, Walker, von Thunen, Menger, von Mises, Schumpeter, Knight, Kirzner, Shane and Venkataraman etc. That means the background to the concept is the same but with varying interpretations. The underlying perspective however is that entrepreneurship is a human behaviour with identifiable driving motives and it requires definitive competencies; skills, knowledge and abilities. The behaviour is purposively exerted, involves various activities and judgmental decisions that are undertaken through a process of identifying, evaluating and exploiting opportunities to create socioeconomic value under conditions of uncertainty. Although the socioeconomic value manifests in new products or services, new sources of supplies, new methods of production, new markets and/or new organisations, it is the new organisation that is commonly recognised as the output of the entrepreneurship process. This perspective narrows and limits the understanding of the concept of entrepreneurship to new and small business ventures with implications on measurement of entrepreneurship. Our analysis shows that all variations of entrepreneurship such as sole entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship, necessity motivated entrepreneurship, opportunity motivated entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship etc are connected within the broader view of the same concept, thereby presenting a common perspective of entrepreneurship.

Small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) have been on the increase in Malawi since the late 1980... more Small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) have been on the increase in Malawi since the late 1980s. People took up these types of businesses because they could not find formal employment elsewhere; structural adjustment programmes at the time had led to the ...

Makoka, Donald, Kaluwa, Ben and Kambewa, Patrick ... Online at http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen .de/49... more Makoka, Donald, Kaluwa, Ben and Kambewa, Patrick ... Online at http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen .de/4974/ ... Donald Makoka, Ben Kaluwa and Patrick Kambewa ... The Working Paper Series are published with funding from the Government of Malawi/European Union through the ...

This study investigates the determinants of demand for private health insurance among formal sect... more This study investigates the determinants of demand for private health insurance among formal sector employees in Malawi, a poor country with heavy pressure on under-funded free government health services. The study is based on membership in the Medical Aid Society of Malawi’s (MASM), three schemes, namely: the VIP, the best; the Executive, the intermediate; and the Econoplan, the minimum. The results indicate that formal sector employees prefer to receive medical treatment from private fee-charging health facilities, where health insurance would be relevant. The study finds that the probability of enrolling in any of MASM’s schemes increases with income and with age for the top and minimum schemes. More children and good health status reduce the probability of enrolling into the two lower schemes. The results suggest the potentially important roles that can be played by information and interventions that address the affordability factor such as through employer contributions that ta...

The study analysed the technical efficiency of small-scale pigeon pea farms in Malawi. 2010/2012 ... more The study analysed the technical efficiency of small-scale pigeon pea farms in Malawi. 2010/2012 National wide data of 2,137 pigeon pea farmers were analyzed using Maximum Likelihood estimation of a Stochastic frontier. The determinants of technical efficiency were incorporated within single-stage estimation of the frontier. Results revealed that the average output of pigeon pea farms in Malawi could increase by 47% under prevailing technology. The technical efficiency of the sampled pigeon pea farms ranged from 0.22 to 0.84 (0.53 average). Most importantly, the empirical results demonstrate that better extension services and farmer training programs on crop marketing and providing access to credit are key to enhance technical efficiency. Acknowledgement : Special thanks to World Bank and Malawi National Statistical Office for the data which was made available for this study.

World Development Perspectives, 2021

Assessment of farmers' climate change induced vulnerability is an important step for enhancing th... more Assessment of farmers' climate change induced vulnerability is an important step for enhancing the understanding and decision-making to reduce such vulnerability. Using panel version of Malawi Living Standards Measurement Survey data of 2010, 2013 and 2016, this paper examines the magnitude of climate induced vulnerability to expected poverty among farming households and how climate change relates to ex-post poverty and poverty transition. We find that vulnerability is strongly associated with short-run climate stresses and less so with the long-run climate related shocks. The effects of vulnerability on actual poverty lessen with time in the long run. Similarly, climate related stresses worsen the welfare of farming households. Droughts, floods and irregular rainfall exacerbates poverty with droughts showing the greatest impact on farmers welfare loss, followed by floods. The study underscores the importance of livestock, in buffering against poverty through serving a safety net, and off-farm income-generating activities. This suggests that the inclusion of livestock in shaping of climate management policies for farmers is crucial.