Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP) has dominated the agriculture and food security policy landscape in the country since its inception in 2005/06. FISP is now credited—or blamed, depending on one’s viewpoint—for a revival of agricultural input subsidies across Africa as a tool to raise crop productivity and reduce poverty and food insecurity. This follows global reporting […]
Strengthening the Agricultural Statistics System
IFPRI has been working closely with the National Statics Office (NSO) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MoAFS) to strengthen agricultural statistics in Malawi. At the national level, the "Support to Agricultural Statistics in Malawi" program (AgStats) helped establish a functional Agricultural Statistics Forum (ASF) that brings together different stakeholders that generate national level […]
Working Paper 3: Maize Prices and Evidence of Spatial Integration in Malawi
This study tests the long-run and short-run integration of maize markets in Malawi using the co-integration approach within the Vector Autoregressive modeling framework. The analysis is extended to Wald-F Granger Causality tests to see the direction of causality between maize markets. A total of six maize markets, two from each region, were analyzed. Three are […]
Announcing MaSSP Working Paper Series
We are excited to announce the recent launch of the MaSSP Working Paper Series. The series will showcase research results relevant to Malawi’s agriculture sector from MaSSP-led studies and from MaSSP partners and collaborators, including Bunda College students and government staff, including from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security.
Working Paper 2: Political economy of agricultural producer support in Malawi
Malawi has struggled to achieve sustained agricultural growth over the last four decades. As such there is need for increased investment and supportive policies if greater success is to be realized. As a prerequisite to identifying the role that improved policies and investment can play, a better understanding is needed of the incentives that producers […]
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