This is the first of the MwAPATA-IFPRI joint seminar series. View the full list here. 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 […]
Working Paper 39: Targeting Hunger or Votes? The Political Economy of Humanitarian Transfers in Malawi
Do electoral considerations play a role in the targeting of humanitarian transfers? We analyze the targeting of direct cash and food transfers distributed in Malawi in response to an exceptionally poor harvest following a late and erratic rainy season of 2015-16. Combining household survey data on transfers with a remotely sensed measure of drought and […]
Development-Smart Innovation through Research in Agriculture (DeSIRA) Planning and Review Meeting
In Malawi, a constantly changing climate poses a threat to the food, nutrition, and income security of smallholder farmers, taking away their smiles. Such farmers, who rely on agriculture entirely for their livelihoods constitute about 80 percent of the economically active population. Recurrent droughts and floods, declining soil fertility, desertification, and outbreak of pests and […]
Policy Note 46: Are Fertilizer Subsidies in Malawi Value for Money?
It is easy enough to calculate how much the Government of Malawi spends on subsidizing chemical fertilizer. Last year, for example, this was MWK 120 billion (about US$ 150 million) taking up over 50% of the agricultural budget. It is much harder, however, to calculate the benefits that these subsidies bring about and how they […]
Price Bulletin for Livestock, Livestock Products and Fish – #20b – May 2022
This price bulletin for livestock, livestock products and fish, was developed by researchers at IFPRI Malawi with the goal of providing clear and accurate information on the variation of weekly retail prices of selected agricultural commodities that are important for food security and nutrition in Malawi. The reports are intended as a resource for those […]
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