Tuesday, February 19, 2019, 14:00 pm - 15:30 pm
High-quality fortified premixed cereals can help caregivers meet infants’ nutrient needs after 6 months of exclusive breastfeeding. Such cereals are widely used in nutrition assistance programs, but commercially-sold brands are often poorly regulated using quality assurance standards for composition and labeling.
Brown Bag Research Seminar: Cash or food transfers? Evidence from a Four-Country Experimental Study
Tuesday, Feburary 12, 2019 - 12:30 pm - 14:00 pm
The relative effectiveness of cash or food transfers in social protection programs has long been debated, but is not well understood. Food transfers may be more likely to be spent on food and child goods and are not affected by price increases.
Brown Bag Research Seminar: Towards a Capacity-Based Resilience Building for Social Cash Transfer Beneficiaries in Malawi
Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019 - 14.00 pm - 15.30 pm
Building resilience to food and nutrition insecurity amidst climate change among the ultra-poor under social protection requires providing the right dose of treatment interventions for impact. While targeting for Social Cash Transfer (SCT) programme requires that beneficiaries are ultra-poor and have limited access to resources, efforts to breaking the cycle of poverty and hunger must build on the idiosyncratic and covariate capacities available as a starting point.
Brown Bag Research Seminar: Has the provision of legume seeds subsidies affected dietary diversity? Evidence from Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Programme
Wednesday, December 12, 2018, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Using Integrated Household Panel Surveys, this study investigates whether inclusion of legume seeds in Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP) package affects dietary diversity. Poor dietary diversity has consequences on health of the population for a country like Malawi whose 37% of under-five children are stunted and other nutrition indicators remain below globally recommended standards.
Brown Bag Research Seminar: Shelter from the storm? Household-Level impacts of, and responses to, the 2015 floods in Malawi
Monday, November 12, 2018, 11:00 am - 12.30 am
As extreme weather events intensify due to climate change, it becomes ever more critical to understand how vulnerable households are to these events and the mechanisms households can rely on to minimize losses effectively. This study analyzes the impacts of the floods that occurred during the 2014/15 growing season in Malawi, using a two-period panel data set.
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