Africa

Virtual Event – COVID-19, global markets and African agricultural trade: Impacts on nutrition and economic growth

Thursday, Sep 17, 2020 - 09:30 am to 11:00 am EDT; 03:30 pm - 05:00 pm CAT
COVID-19 has diverse effects on global markets, with potentially severe impacts on farmer incomes and consumer food access and health in Africa. This seminar will explore how A... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) Virtual Summit 2020

Join the Tenth African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), which will be held virtually from September 8 to 11, 2020. Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

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