This report describes the initial results of a modeling study undertaken by IFPRI. The study considered two scenarios: (a) two months of social distancing plus external shocks over the second quarter; and (b) a hypothetical urban 21-day lockdown plus social distancing and external shocks, each followed by either fast or slow lifting of restrictions during the rest of 2020.
Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Change in Malawi – Quantitative baseline report
This comprehensive baseline report introduces the evaluation context and describes the BRACC program, details the randomized evaluation design, summarizes main findings from the baseline household survey, and tests whether the randomization successfully balanced baseline observable characteristics across the treatment arms.
IFPRI Malawi Maize Market Report May 2020
The Monthly Maize Market Reports are developed by researchers at IFPRI Malawi, with the main goal of providing clear and accurate daily maize price data in selected markets throughout Malawi. The reports are intended as a resource for those interested in maize markets in Malawi, namely producers, traders, consumers, or other agricultural stakeholders.
Crowdsourcing farm gate prices for maize and soybeans – preliminary findings
In Malawi, accurate information on farm gate prices is hard to obtain. However, it is important to monitor farm gate prices to determine if they incentivize future agricultural production, especially at this time of the global COVID-19 pandemic, which has disrupted the global agri-food systems with significant impacts on global food security, nutrition, and poverty. […]
Business Registration and Firm Performance: Maize Traders in Malawi – A case study
A recent article, authored by Henry Kankwamba and Lukas Kornher, assesses the effect of business registration on firm performance in Malawi’s maize sector. The study uses panel data of 172 maize traders from central Malawi, and instrumental variable estimation on a systematically drawn sample. The study was conducted in five districts in the central region of Malawi: Lilongwe, Mchinji, Kasungu, Dowa, and Dedza, covering 15 markets in total.
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