Farmers and food businesses have shown both great vulnerability to and capacity to adjust to a major shock like COVID-19. Read Blog Post > https://www.ifpri.org/blog/smallholder-and-agrifood-sme-resilience-shocks-lessons-covid-19-un-food-system-summit
GLOBAL REPORT ON FOOD CRISES 2021 June 17, 9:30 – 11:00 AM (EDT)
Experiences and strategies that can build food systems resilience to prevent food crises and conflict. Details & Registration: https://www.ifpri.org/event/global-report-food-crises-2021-building-resilience-prevent-food-crises-and-conflict
Interactive maps of crowdsourced farmgate prices
These interactive maps show the prices and volumes of maize and soybeans that farmers in Malawi report selling during the main 2020 and 2021 marketing seasons in a crowdsourcing exercise conducted by IFPRI and Farm Radio Trust. Volumes are in kg, with larger circles showing larger sales volumes. TAs, where no farmers have reported sales […]
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 […]
Event Recap: Does connectivity reduce gender gaps in off-farm employment? Evidence from 12 low- and middle-income countries
At an IFPRI Malawi virtual brown bag seminar held on 19th May 2021, Dr. Eva-Maria Egger, a UNU-Wider Research Fellow, presented a paper that posed the question “Does Connectivity Reduce Gender Gaps in Off-Farm Employment?”. The background to this paper comes from the recognition that despite there being evidence that wage employment for young women […]
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