The Monthly Maize Market Reports are developed by researchers at IFPRI Malawi, with the main goal of providing clear and accurate daily maize price data in selected markets throughout Malawi. The reports are intended as a resource for those interested in maize markets in Malawi, namely producers, traders, consumers, or other agricultural stakeholders. Highlights Retail […]
Working Paper 45: Welfare impacts of seasonal maize price fluctuations in Malawi
Abstract: Maize prices fluctuate significantly throughout the year in Malawi, creating winners and losers depending on who is selling and who is buying the staple at different times. We link maize market price data to nationally and temporally representative household survey data on maize sales and purchases to quantify welfare gains and losses throughout the […]
Working Paper 44: Fertilizer subsidies in Malawi: From past to present
Abstract: Malawi has been at the center of the debate on agricultural input subsidies in Africa ever since it significantly expanded its fertilizer subsidy program about two decades ago. When it did so, Malawi was a trailblazer, receiving international attention for seemingly leveraging the subsidy program to move the country from a situation characterized by […]
Journal Article: A New Approach to Monitoring Farmer Prices: Method and an Application to Malawi
We are pleased to announce that the article "A New Approach to Monitoring Farmer Prices: Method and an Application to Malawi," Authored by Bob Baulch, Seng Kiong Kok, and Aubrey Jolex has been published in the Journal of Development Studies. Abstract: This paper proposes a new approach to monitoring farmer prices in low-income developing countries. […]
El Niño: Malawi’s harvest of maize – its staple food – may fall by 22.5% this year (The Conversation)
The Conversation published an article by Joachim De Weerdt, Channing Arndt, James Thurlow, Jan Duchoslav, Joseph Glauber, Liangzhi You, and Weston Anderson. The article looked at possible weather pattern changes driven by El Niño – an unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean – and their impact on maize production in Malawi. […]
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