How can Malawi’s trade and export policies on agricultural products best support dual goals of food security and growth in the agriculture sector? Exploring this important topic, IFPRI presented research results at a “Dissemination Workshop on Export Bans and Minimum Farm Gate Prices Study” organized by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), at the […]
Policy Note 24: Have market policies turned Malawi’s large-scale farmers into subsistence maize producers?
In the last two decades, food security policy in Malawi has focused on enhancing the maize productivity of smallholder farmers, primarily through the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP). While this has raised maize yields, production shocks, such as droughts and floods, continue to result in wide-spread food insecurity in the country. In 2014/15, for example, […]
Policy Note 23: The national extension policy of Malawi – lessons from implementation
The Government of Malawi put in place the National Extension Policy in 2000 to promote the provision of quality agricultural extension services. Fifteen years after its introduction, while action has been taken on some components, many key elements of the policy remain largely unimplemented. This note outlines the evidence on why much progress has not […]
The unintended effects of food security policies: managing maize markets in Malawi
The price of maize has been more volatile in Malawi than in any other country in the region over the last decade. Measures to address this volatility and related food shortages can have unintended negative effects on the sector, keeping farmers in subsistence agriculture and stagnating commercial growth and agricultural transformation. However, relatively simple measures […]
Are fertilizer subsidies worth it?
IFPRI's Insights Magazine recently published an article about fertilizer subsidies in Africa, using Malawi as an example and citing MaSSP research on the topic. The authors note that many African governments subsidize fertilizers and ask, "Are subsidies worth it?". The complete re-posted article appears below. ************************************ It was called Malawi’s miracle. In 2005, in the […]
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