The Call for Abstracts for the Inaugural ECAMA Research Symposium has been extended to July 29th. The Research Symposium, to be held in Lilongwe on 8-10 October 2014, will bring together local and international participants, including researchers, policy analysts and students to promote proactive debate on pertinent economic issues in Malawi by reviewing and synthesizing current evidence. One of the organizers, […]
Announcing ECAMA Research Symposium and Call for Abstracts
We are excited to announce the Inaugural Research Symposium of the Economics Association of Malawi. This event will bring together local and international researchers, policy analysts and students to engage on the important theme: “An Economically Independent Malawi is Possible: From Rhetoric to Practice.” The event, hosted by ECAMA with support from IFPRI’s and the […]
Upcoming Launch of AgStats Strategic Master Plan
The agricultural statistics sub-sector has developed ‘The Agricultural Statistics Strategic Master Plan (SMP)’ in order to improve integration, coordination, harmonization, and implementation of agricultural statistics in Malawi. The SMP, to be formally launched soon, is expected to guide improvements in the quality, standards, accuracy, reliability, timely release, and accessibility of agricultural statistics. In addition, it […]
Growth, Poverty and Nutrition Linkages and the Role of FISP
Since its inception in 2005/06 Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP) has been at the center of national and global interest. After its initial success in transforming Malawi from a food insecure country to a surplus producer of maize, many African countries have followed suit, modeling their own input subsidy programs on the FISP. However, in […]
2-Part Training: Developing and Mapping Food Security and Nutrition Indicators
MaSSP will hold a two-part training course in Lilongwe on April 7-11 and 14-17. The course prepares participants to use Malawi’s third integrated household survey (IHS3) data to develop indicators of food security, nutrition, and poverty using Stata® software and then displaying the indicators in geospatial maps of Malawi using ArcGIS® mapping software. This course is […]
