By: Jan Duchoslav and Joachim De Weerdt On 20 October 2023, His Excellency the President launched the 2023/24 Affordable Inputs Programme, dubbed AIP 2.0. Details about the program emerged a few days earlier when the AIP Implementation Guidelines were published, and the Minister of Agriculture held a press conference on the same. The guidelines and […]
IFPRI Blog: Introducing the Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS)
The global commitment to reaching Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5, achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls, is only growing stronger. For instance, there has been tremendous growth in the number of metrics assessing women’s empowerment since 2010 (Quisumbing et al., 2023). But none of these metrics are concise enough nor applicable across a […]
MAZIKO – Malawi Integrated Maternal and Child Grant Project
MAZIKO (meaning "Foundation" in Chichewa) is a 5-year project launched in November 2021, aimed at improving child nutrition and development in Ntcheu and Balaka districts in Malawi. It integrates maternal and child grants with government-recommended social and behavior change interventions. The project is implemented by Save the Children and GiveDirectly and reaches nearly 42,000 households […]
IFPRI Maize market report September 2023
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 […]
Policy Note 50: Can urban growth reduce rural underemployment?
Abstract: In a recent IFPRI working paper, Van Cappellen and De Weerdt (2023), we show how urban growth reduces underemployment in the rural hinterlands of towns and cities. But leveraging these labor market linkages between urban and rural areas for inclusive growth and poverty reduction will depend on overcoming two barriers. The first is that […]
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