This month the Gender-Nutrition Idea Exchange is discussing the implications of agriculture, time use and nutrition. A timely topic, given that women's time use and decisionmaking is one of the four key agriculture-nutrition impact pathways described in the report "Mapping the Linkages between agriculture, food security and nutrition in Malawi", that was recently launched by MaSSP. In a […]
MaSSP Report: Mapping the Linkages between agriculture, food security and nutrition in Malawi
In spite of rapid small-holder led economic growth in Malawi over the past decade, almost half of all children under five years of age in Malawi still suffer from undernutrition. Although some of these children may be getting enough to eat in terms of total calories, few are consuming sufficient quantities of nutrient-rich foods—meat, fish, eggs, […]
Announcing New USAID Initiative to Support Agricultural Policy
The Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Water Development is leading many of the high-level policy reforms that the government of Malawi committed to in 2013 under the G8’s New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Malawi. The new USAID/Malawi initiative, the New Alliance Policy Acceleration Support: Malawi project (NAPAS:Malawi), will enable staff from the […]
Working Paper 12: Strengthening storage, credit, and food security linkages: The role and potential impact of warehouse receipt systems in Malawi
This study considers the extent to which smallholder farmers, including those who do not necessarily produce a surplus for the market, might benefit from participating in warehouse receipt systems (WRS) in terms of improved income and food security. We consider three potential channels: efficient food markets; reduced post-harvest losses; and access to credit. Firstly, we find that WRS, through its […]
MaSSP studies on FISP and growth-poverty linkages published as UNU-WIDER Working Papers
Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP) has dominated agriculture and food security policy debates since its inception in 2005/06. Yet, after eight years of intensive research and program evaluation, opinion about FISP’s impact and its overall desirability remains divided. This reflects the fact that FISP is partly motivated by political reasons; that the socio-economic criteria […]
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