Abstract Since Amartya Sen's famous work on Poverty and Famines, economists have understood that the impacts of food market shocks on the poor depend much more on their impacts on households’ incomes and access to food than on overall food availability, and that availability-based policies frequently exacerbate adverse impacts on household welfare. Perhaps because […]
Virtual Brown Bag: 13 October, 2021: Soil Health and Grain Yield Impacts of Climate Resilient Agriculture Projects: Evidence from Southern Malawi
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.
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