Abstract: Titukulane is a $75M five-year USAID-funded Resilience Food Security Activity, running from 2019 to 2024. The program is implementing Malawi’s National Resilience Strategy (NRS) in Mangochi and Zomba districts. NRS guides investments in agriculture, reduction in impacts and improvements in recovery from shocks, promotion of household resilience, strengthening the management of Malawi’s natural […]
Malawi Launch of the 2022 Global Food Policy Report
The 2022 Global Food Policy Report, IFPRI’s flagship report, highlights the urgency of accelerating innovation, reforming policies, resetting market incentives, and increasing financing for sustainable food systems transformation. It sets forth a broad range of policy options for accelerated action by policymakers as well as international forums for policy and investment decision-making. Eleven thematic chapters […]
Virtual event: Selling Crops Early to Pay for School: A Large-Scale Natural Experiment in Malawi
Abstract: In 2010, primary school in Malawi began in September, three months earlier than in 2009. I show that this change forced households to sell crops early, when prices are low. The effect is limited to households with school children, increases with the number of children, and is present only for poor households. Households that […]
Virtual event: Sell Low, Buy Low? A New Explanation for a Persistent Puzzle
Abstract: We provide new insight into the seeming puzzle that many farmers in low-income countries sell their crops at harvest, when prices are low, rather than waiting until prices increase later in the year. We use 20 years of data from 1037 retail markets in 30 African countries to demonstrate that the lean season price […]
Virtual Event: Follow the Leader? A Field Experiment on Social Influence
Abstract: We conduct an artefactual field experiment in endogenously formed groups in rural Malawi to investigate social influence in risk taking. Treatments vary whether individuals observe the behavior of a formally elected leader, an external leader, or a random peer. Results show social influence in risk taking with differential influence by leader type. The decisions […]
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