Food security in Malawi depends on production of enough maize, the country’s staple crop. In Malawi, more than 90 percent of farm households grow maize and this grain accounts for 60 percent of total calorie consumption. As opportunities for land-extensive agricultural growth are reduced, use of modern maize production technologies has become essential for producing […]
Malawi faces a food crisis: why plans to avert hunger aren’t realistic and what can be done (The Conversation)
The conversation published an article by Joachim De Weerdt and Jan Duchoslav. The article discusses Malawi's impending severe food crisis due to a drought caused by the El Niño weather pattern, which has drastically reduced the harvest of maize, the country's staple food. The government declared a state of disaster, and President Lazarus Chakwera stated […]
Responding to Malawi’s looming food crisis
By: Jan Duchoslav, Mazvita Chiduwa, Simon Denhere, Rodwell Mzonde, George Phiri and Joachim De Weerdt Malawi is heading towards a severe food crisis later this year after an El Niño induced mid-season dry spell affected the harvest of maize, the staple food grown by nine out of 10 farming households. The government declared a state […]
Ensuring food security in a state of disaster
By: Jan Duchoslav and Joachim De Weerdt On 23 March 2024, His Excellency the President declared a state of disaster in 23 of Malawi’s 28 districts in anticipation of a poor harvest caused by the ongoing El Niño climatic event. El Niño has brought about spells of dry weather across much of southern Africa, leading […]
IFPRI Blog: Ukraine and global agricultural markets two years later
Two years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the war continues to disrupt agricultural production and trade in Ukraine—one of the world's largest agricultural exporters—and poses an ongoing threat to global food security. Yet global commodity markets have adjusted to these disruptions, in part to due to increased exports by other […]
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