This story was cross-posted from the IFPRI website and was originally written by Kalle Hirvonen and Derek Headey. Eating fruits and vegetables can help ensure adequate nutrition and reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, and obesity. Yet, most people in lower income countries do not get the recommended daily servings of those foods, largely […]
Policy Note 32: Examining Perceptions of Food Assistance on Household Food Security and Resilience in Malawi
In January 2015, a national disaster was declared after floods left 2.8 million people in need of relief. As the aid response was underway, El Niño-related droughts devastated harvests. Another national disaster was declared in April 2016, with 6.5 million people requiring aid – prompting the largest humanitarian response in Malawi’s history. However, the Government […]
Does providing agricultural and nutrition information to both men and women improve household food security? Evidence from Malawi
A new journal article examines the role of gender in various pathways to food security in Malawi, emphasizing areas for improved access to agriculture and nutrition information along these pathways. The article, published in Global Food Security, also considers the implications of gender targeting for agriculture and nutrition extension services. The authors propose a gendered […]
Working Paper 27: Malawi’s Challenging Employment Landscape
Working Paper 27 examines Malawi’s challenging employment landscape, focusing on the country's rapidly growing youth population. Using three rounds of the Integrated Household Survey, carried out between 2004 and 2016, the authors found little evidence of a structural transformation in Malawi’s economy or of youth benefiting from changing patterns of employment. While the share of […]
Too good to be true? Exploring subsidy reductions in Ghana
This story was cross-posted from the IFPRI website and was originally written by Kwaw Andam, a research fellow with the Ghana Strategy Support Program (GSSP). It also appears on the GSSP blog. Fertilizer subsidies are used across Africa south of the Sahara as the preferred tool for governments trying to boost incomes of poor smallholder farmers […]
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