This note provides an assessment of the first year of implementation of the Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) from the perspective of rural households and communities in Malawi. The data come from a nationally representative panel survey of 2,449 rural households in 299 communities. At the household level, users of inorganic fertilizer, the amount applied per […]
Book Launch: COVID-19 & Global Food Security: 2 Years Later
This e-book builds upon the lessons presented in the earlier volume, COVID-19 & Global Food Security (2020) that documented the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic as of mid-2020, particularly the disruptions to livelihoods and the food and nutrition security of billions of people.
Journal Article: The Effect of ICT Use on the Profitability of Young Agripreneurs in Malawi
We are pleased to announce than the article "The Effect of ICT Use on the Profitability of Young Agripreneurs in Malawi", authored by Aubrey Jolex and Adane Tufa has been published in sustainability journal. Follow this link to read and download the full article. Abstract: The agricultural sector’s significant position in an economy and high […]
Virtual event: Labor Calendars and Rural Poverty: A Case Study for Malawi
Abstract: The persistence of rural poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa is a major challenge for meeting the Sustainable Development Goal on poverty eradication. Using detailed data for Malawi, we investigate the association between seasonality in labor calendars and poverty. We find that (1) seasonality in rural labor calendars runs deep, accounting for 2/3 of total rural […]
Virtual Event: How do Informal Farmland Rental Markets Affect Smallholders’ Well-being?
Abstract: The growth of rural land rental markets is often taken as a virtuous component of an African structural transformation process, by facilitating access to land by efficient but land-constrained farmers. Recent empirical work has generally supported this view. However, one of the shortcomings is that nearly all studies severely underreport activities of landlords, as […]
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