During our IFPRI Malawi brown bag research seminar on 13 February 2020, IFPRI Ethiopia’s Senior Research Fellow Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse, presented on the findings of an experiment among poor households in Ethiopia, which aimed to boost parents’ aspirations for a better future for their children through exposure to documentaries featuring local male and female role models.
IFPRI Malawi Maize Market Report January 2020
Fluctuations in the price of maize—Malawi’s most important staple crop—are a huge contributor to the country’s overall food security. Providing maize price information in markets throughout the country is a critical first step to understanding and improving food security in Malawi. The Monthly Maize Market Reports are developed by researchers at IFPRI Malawi, with the […]
Working Paper 33: Market Information and Access to Structured Markets by Small Farmers and Traders
Working Paper 33 analyzes the effects of an action research experiment in central Malawi, in which four groups of smallholder farmers were provided with maize and soybean price information from a local commodity exchange during the 2019 marketing season, while another four groups of smallholder farmers did not receive this information.
Poster on Nutrient Consumption and Dietary Patterns in Malawi, 2016-2017
IFPRI Malawi is pleased to announce the publication of a poster on Nutrient consumption and dietary patterns in Malawi, 2016-2017, which complements our working paper 30: Are Malawian Diets Changing? An assessment of nutrient consumption and dietary patterns using household-level evidence from 2010/11 and 2016/17.
Working Paper 32: Patterns of Change in Malawi’s Economy under Sector-Focused Investment Strategies
Malawi’s economic future is dependent upon a transformation of the economy that will involve increased economic productivity overall and considerable movement of labor and capital out of agriculture and into manufacturing and services. A dynamic Computable General Equilibrium model of the economy of Malawi was used to better understand the development gains that would be realized by 2030 through significantly increasing separately the productivity of each of the three sectors of the Malawian economy – agriculture, industry, and services.
