Abstract Since Amartya Sen's famous work on Poverty and Famines, economists have understood that the impacts of food market shocks on the poor depend much more on their impacts on households’ incomes and access to food than on overall food availability, and that availability-based policies frequently exacerbate adverse impacts on household welfare. Perhaps because […]
Virtual Brown Bag: 13 October, 2021: Soil Health and Grain Yield Impacts of Climate Resilient Agriculture Projects: Evidence from Southern Malawi
Abstract CONTEXT: Climate resilient agriculture (CRA) projects like watershed restoration efforts can enhance agricultural systems’ resilience to climate change and extreme weather shocks by improving soil health and grain yields in vulnerable communities. One such project, Wellness and Agriculture for Life Advancement (WALA) implemented watershed restoration across eight districts in southern Malawi from 2009 to […]
Event Recap: Book Launch ‘Disentangling Food Security from Subsistence Agriculture in Malawi’
At an online event on 7 July, IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Todd Benson launched his book entitled ‘Disentangling Food Security from Subsistence Agriculture in Malawi.’ The book outlines how Malawi can reduce its persistent food insecurity by moving away from a reliance on subsistence farming. His thesis is that subsistence production and inadequate food markets […]
Event Recap: A New Method for Monitoring Farmgate Prices in Malawi
Farmers, civil society organizations and government officials often accuse traders of exploitative behavior towards farmers by paying low prices for their produce and capturing most of the profit margin themselves. However, reliable information about farmgate prices is typically difficult to obtain in Malawi because smallholder farmers tend to make sales infrequently and informally. In a […]
Event Recap: Does connectivity reduce gender gaps in off-farm employment? Evidence from 12 low- and middle-income countries
At an IFPRI Malawi virtual brown bag seminar held on 19th May 2021, Dr. Eva-Maria Egger, a UNU-Wider Research Fellow, presented a paper that posed the question “Does Connectivity Reduce Gender Gaps in Off-Farm Employment?”. The background to this paper comes from the recognition that despite there being evidence that wage employment for young women […]
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