This study was done as part of the DeSIRA (Developing Smart Innovations for Research in Agriculture) program funded by the European Union. At an IFPRI virtual brown bag seminar held on the 24th of March, Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) Research Fellow, Tabitha C. Nindi, presented a study that explored why in […]
Project Note: COVID-19 in Rural Malawi: Perceived Risk and Economic Impacts Round 2
COVID-19 in Rural Malawi: Perceived Risk and Economic Impacts Round 2 Project Note By: Kate Ambler, Sylvan Herskowitz, Mywish K. Maredia and Jonathan Mockshell 2021 This note summarizes perceptions of COVID-19 impacts and risks from a panel phone survey of rural households in eight districts in rural Malawi. While the results from the first round […]
Conservation agriculture improves adaptive capacity of cropping systems to climate stress in Malawi
Adaptation to climate stress is an unprecedented challenge facing cropping systems. Most adaptation assessments focus on how adaptation options affect yields of a single crop under different weather or climate conditions. Yet, cropping systems often comprise more than one crop, and holistic assessments should consider all crops grown in a cropping system. One adaptation option […]
World Water Day 2021: How can we manage better what we value most?
The theme of World Water Day 2021 (March 22) is “Valuing Water”—recognizing that unless resources are valued, they won’t be used sustainably.
Project Note: Understanding the factors that influence cereal-legume adoption amongst smallholder farmers in Malawi
Abstract: Although sustainable intensification (SI) practices such as intercropping of cereals with legumes are believed to offer productivity benefits to farmers, the adoption of cereal-legume intercropping remains low in Malawi. We use dynamic programming to assess the impact of four key constraints that smallholder farmers face. These constraints are i) land, ii) labor, ii) input […]
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