This is an exciting time for agricultural policy in Malawi. The entrance of a new administration as Malawi celebrates 50 years of independence has sparked active engagement by various stakeholders on the proposed focus of agriculture policy and a vision for the country’s future. A recent symposium organized by LUANAR and IFPRI took place that synthesized […]
Working Paper 6: Changes in Food and Nutrition Security in Malawi: Analysis of Recent Survey Evidence
A large proportion of Malawian households are caught in a trap where poverty and food insecurity reinforce one another and where periods of food deficits and severe food crises are frequent occurrences. In recognition of this, the Malawian government has since 2005/06 implemented a large-scale Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP), which supplies half of smallholder […]
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 […]
Policy Note 15: How Best to Target Agricultural Subsidies?
Over the past few years, Malawi made remarkable progress toward increasing its national maize production and achieving food security owing to its Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP). Likewise, the implementation of the subsidy program is continuously being improved upon as the country learns from past experience. Recent evaluations of the Fertilizer Input Support Programs (FISP) […]
Policy Note 8: Agricultural Growth, Poverty and Nutrition Linkages in Malawi
While economic growth is generally acknowledged as a necessary precondition for reducing poverty, relatively little is known about how growth and nutrition are related. Therefore, questions persist regarding how to leverage economic policies so that they have a larger impact on nutrition. In recent years the Malawian government allocated a large share of its resources […]
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