Abstract Designing decentralized policies has been recently recognized as more appropriate to address the immediate development problems of local communities. In this paper, a knowledge-based system approach is used to generate decentralized policy recommendations of crop choices in order to achieve household food security and nutrition. Using a case study of smallholder Malawian farmers, a decentralized approach to production-oriented policymaking for household food security and nutrition is presented. It is argued that similar programs could be written for designing and implementing decentralized policies for other rural development sectors.
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