Tuesday, March 19, 2019, 14:00 pm - 15:30 pm
Entrepreneurship in agriculture is suggested as a mean to create sustainable livelihoods and to increase production of the agricultural sector. Even though previous research focused on the enabling environment, it predominantly focused on access to economic and natural resources.
Brown Bag Research Seminar: Market demand for and nutrient and mycotoxin levels in commercially-sold premixed cereals for complementary feeding of infants in Malawi
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.
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 […]
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