By: Fundi Kayamba-Phiri Setting the Stage: Community Resilience The lives of many Malawians are repeatedly threatened by cyclones and natural disasters, amplified by climate change. Droughts, floods, and hunger threaten their livelihoods, but hope is not lost. From 2022, cyclones Ana, Gombe, and this year Freddy have further emphasized the urgency of building community resilience. […]
How to weather the lean season with a lean AIP
Malawi’s national budget for the upcoming fiscal year allocates K117 billion to the Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP), of which K110 billion is earmarked for fertilizer subsidies. The Ministry of Agriculture also announced that it aims to provide 1.75 million beneficiaries with 2 bags of subsidized fertilizer each under next year’s AIP. How can it be done?
IFPRI Blog: Ukraine one year later: Impacts on global food security
When Russian troops invaded Ukraine one year ago, the war appeared to pose a grave threat to global food security. The conflict could hardly have come at a worse moment. Even prior to the war, global supplies of key staples were tight; ending stocks of wheat, maize and soybeans were at their lowest levels for many […]
Virtual Event: Market Access and Quality Upgrading: Evidence from Four Field Experiments.
Abstract: Smallholder farming in many developing countries is characterized by low productivity and low-quality output. Low quality limits the price farmers can command and their potential income. We conduct a series of experiments among maize farmers in Uganda to shed light on the barriers to quality upgrading and to study its potential. We find that […]
Virtual event: Profitability of Climate-Smart Soil Fertility Investment across sub-Saharan Africa
Abstract: Soil fertility investments in sub-Saharan Africa, where budgetary resources are scarce, must be well targeted. Using a causal forest algorithm and an experimental maize trial dataset matched with geocoded rainfall, temperature and soils data, we modelled site-specific, ex ante distributions of yield response and economic returns to fertilizer use. Yield response to fertilizer use […]
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