Africa

Now Available: Dataset “Estimates of Nutrient Availability From the Integrated Household Surveys in Malawi”

Replication files for our Working Paper "Are Malawian diets changing? An assessment of nutrient consumption and dietary patterns using household-level evidence from 2010/11 and 2016/17" are now available on Dataverse. Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Virtual Event – COVID-19’s Short-term Impacts on Economies, Food Systems and Poverty in African and Asian Countries: Economywide Estimates from Economywide Models

Tuesday, Aug 11, 2020 - 09:30 am to 10:45 am EDT; 03:30 pm to 04:45 pm CAT
This IFPRI-PIM seminar will present the modeling approach and showcase results from three case studies—Nigeria, Myanmar, and Sudan. Presenters will highlight how differences in... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

COVID-19 border policies create problems for African trade and economic pain for communities

This blog post is cross-posted from the main IFPRI website and was originally written by Antoine Bouët and David Laborde. The blog post is part of a special series of analyses on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on national and global food and nutr... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Working Paper 35: Who uses and who benefits from warehouse receipt systems?

IFPRI Malawi Working Paper 35, authored by Jack Thunde and Bob Baulch, examines who uses and who benefits from warehouse receipt systems using unique transaction level data from the Agricultural Commodity Exchange for Africa (ACE) based in Malawi. Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Including Africa’s young people in food systems

Over the next decade, 21 million people will join the working-age population every year in Africa south of the Sahara. By 2050, that number will rise to 30 million a year.
The impacts of this so-called “youth bulge” are hotly debated. The trend is ge... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program