Abstract CONTEXT: Climate resilient agriculture (CRA) projects like watershed restoration efforts can enhance agricultural systems’ resilience to climate change and extreme weather shocks by improving soil health and grain yields in vulnerable communities. One such project, Wellness and Agriculture for Life Advancement (WALA) implemented watershed restoration across eight districts in southern Malawi from 2009 to […]
Journal Article- Earned and Unearned Income: Experimental Evidence on Expenditure and Labor Supply in Malawi
Questions related to how individuals treat different types of incomes, i.e. earned and unearned have a long history in economics and policy making. This study used a field experiment in Malawi to examine the differential short-term effect of earned and unearned income on the allocation of expenditure and labor supply, holding all other factors constant. […]
Virtual Brown Bag: June 23, 2021: A new Method for Monitoring Farmgate Prices in Malawi
Abstract It is common for farmers, civil society organizations, government officials and journalists to accuse traders of ‘exploitative behavior’ and ‘price gouging’ in the post-harvest season. Yet, the evidence on which such accusations are made is largely anecdotal, as government efforts to collect and report farmgate prices are often patchy and inconsistent. In this […]
Book: DISENTANGLING FOOD SECURITY FROM SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE IN MALAWI
Malawi's agricultural sector needs to be less subsistence-focused, more market-centered, and more concentrated and specialized to reliably feed all Malawians.
Virtual Brown Bag – July 7, 2021: Disentangling Food Security from Subsistence Agriculture in Malawi- Book Launch
Abstract: Malawi’s many smallholders rely heavily on rainfed, low-input subsistence farming to meet their food needs. Yet for most rural Malawian households, subsistence agriculture cannot consistently produce enough food to ward off hunger. Nor can they rely on the country’s weak markets to buy additional food they may require or to profitably sell their agricultural […]
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