This Brief, prepared by MwAPATA and the International Food Policy Research Institute, examines alternative strategies to promote agricultural growth and alleviate poverty. The authors emphasize raising returns to fertilizer use and discuss how cash transfers could improve food security and resilience.
Policy Note 43: Guiding Principles of AIP Reform
Most input subsidy programs to date have focused on increasing fertilizer use, with little attention to helping smallholder farmers use fertilizer more efficiently and profitably. The Malawi's Affordable Inputs Program (AIP) currently combines an economic and a social objective, respectively: (i) increasing agricultural production; and (ii) assisting poor farming households. This policy note explores the […]
IFPRI & World Bank Policy Seminar: Can Agricultural Policies Deliver Better Value?
FEB 2, 9:30 TO 11:00AM (EST) IFPRI-WB research findings shed light on policy & technological solutions to shift food systems to deliver better value for the money for people, the planet, and the economy.
Virtual Event: Overcoming Barriers to Savings through Deferred Wage Payments: Evidence from rural Malawi
Abstract: Saving for the future tends to be particularly challenging in developing country contexts, where many people lack access to formal saving tools. This paper study’s a simple savings scheme that allows workers to defer receipt of part of their wages for three months at zero interest. The scheme significantly increases savings during the deferral […]
IFPRI Research Post: The links between food-related trade and fiscal policies and obesity rates in low- and middle-income countries
Global overweight and obesity rates have almost tripled since 1975 and are expected to continue rising over the next few decades (Shekar & Popkin, 2020). This trend is alarmingly steeper in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) compared to high-income countries, where the same rates are gradually declining (Ng et al., 2014, Shekar and Popkin, 2020). […]
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