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.
Has the provision of legume seeds subsidies affected dietary diversity? Evidence from FISP
In Malawi, maize is life – the cereal is the main staple with more than 70 percent of all agricultural plots in the country used for maize farming. This strong dependence on maize has led to a poorly diversified agricultural system with limited dietary diversity. The government of Malawi implements a Farm Input Subsidy Program […]
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.
Accelerating the End of Hunger and Malnutrition
How can we accelerate progress in transforming our agri-food systems to meet the needs of the malnourished and to achieve the sustainable development goals by 2030? To answer this question, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have organized a three-day global event taking […]
Shelter from the Storm? Household-Level Impacts of, and Responses to, the 2015 Floods in Malawi
Overdependence on rain-fed agriculture by rural households in Malawi puts them at risk of crop losses tied to extreme weather events, like floods and droughts. In recent years, Malawi has experienced an increase in frequency, intensity and spread of these events. In January 2015, severe flooding in Malawi affected over a million families, displacing 230,000 […]
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