IFPRI’s flagship Food Policy Report puts into perspective the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions in 2014 and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2015. Drawing on rigorous research, IFPRI researchers and other distinguished food policy experts consider a wide range of crucial questions. One of these questions is particularly salient for Malawi: How can we support smallholder farmers in “moving up” in agriculture or “moving out” of the sector altogether? Chapter 4 of the report discusses how family farmers can best contribute to their country's agricultural needs while also ensuring their own development within or beyond the agricultural sector. In a country like Malawi, with a predominantly agriculture-based economy made up largely of small family farms, the author suggest a dual effort to help some farmers "move up" through investments in infrastructure and promoting high-value agriculture while supporting others, through social safety nets and education to "move out" of agriculture and develop other sectors of the economy. (For more discussion on social safety nets, read Chapter 5 of the report)

To read the complete chapter on "Helping Small Family Farmers to Move Up or Move Out," click here. See below for the complete list of chapters of this year's Food Policy Report.

 

2014-2015 Global Food Policy Report

• Table of Contents and Front Matter (PDF 85K)
• Chapter 1 Food Policy in 2014–2015: Strong Advances and Stubborn Setbacks (PDF 375K)
• Chapter 2 Reaching the Missing Middle: Overcoming Hunger and Malnutrition in Middle Income Countries (PDF 310K)
• Chapter 3 The Power of WASH: Why Sanitation Matters for Nutrition (PDF 268K)
• Chapter 4 The Business Imperative: Helping Small Family Farmers to Move Up or Move (PDF 2.2M)
• Chapter 5 Mitigating Risk: Social Protection and the Rural Poor (PDF 358K)
• Chapter 6 Food Safety: Reducing and Managing Food Scares (PDF 1.1M)
• Chapter 7 Conflict and Food Insecurity: How Do We Break the Links? (PDF 5.0M)
• Chapter 8 The Rise of Aquaculture: The Role of Fish in Global Food Security (PDF 410K)
• Chapter 9 Regional Developments (PDF 2.0M)
• Food Policy Indicators: Tracking Change (PDF 277K)
• Notes (PDF 215K)