In Malawi, maize is life – the cereal is the main staple with more than 70 percent of all agricultural plots in the country used for maize farming. This strong dependence on maize has led to a poorly diversified agricultural system with limited dietary diversity. The government of Malawi implements a Farm Input Subsidy Program […]
MaSSP studies on FISP and growth-poverty linkages published as UNU-WIDER Working Papers
Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP) has dominated agriculture and food security policy debates since its inception in 2005/06. Yet, after eight years of intensive research and program evaluation, opinion about FISP’s impact and its overall desirability remains divided. This reflects the fact that FISP is partly motivated by political reasons; that the socio-economic criteria […]
FISP Symposium Proceedings
The National Farm Input Subsidy Programme Symposium, held on July 14-15, 2014 at the Bingu International Conference Centre, asked critical questions about the impact and future of the FISP. The full proceedings as well as a summary of the policy implications from this productive debate are now published here on the MaSSP website. We hope the outcomes of this […]
National FISP Symposium: Impact and what next?
The National Farm Input Subsidy Programme Symposium, ‘Eight years of FISP – Impact and what next?’, was held on July 14-15, 2014 at the Bingu International Conference Centre. Local and global experts came together to review the state of evidence on the impacts of the program, debate the core objectives and main implementation challenges, and discuss the […]
Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP) Symposium Publications
1) FISP Symposium Proceedings Full report Summary of Policy Implications 2) Maize-Nitrogen Response in Malawi’s Smallholder Production Systems, by Sieg Snapp (Michigan State University), Thom Jayne (Michigan State University), Wezi Mhango (LUANAR), Todd Benson (IFPRI), and Jacob Ricker-Gilbert (Purdue) 3) MaSSP Policy Note #18: Farm Input Subsidy Program: Where do we go from here? By Karl Pauw and James Thurlow, 2014 Other […]
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