This MaSSP Policy Note by Stephen Carr describes how years of continuous cultivation with little or no use of external inputs to restore soil nutrients has resulted in a situation in which crop production in a number of African countries is now limited by nutrient deficiencies – nitrogen, in particular, which is crucial to healthy plant growth. This widespread problem […]
Policy Note 18: Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Program: Where do we go from here?
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 Differences 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.
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