agriculture production

IFPRI Blog: Act now to address Malawi’s looming food crisis

Malawi is facing a severe drought crisis linked to the El Niño climate phenomenon. On March 23, President Lazarus Chakwera declared a state of disaster in 23 of Malawi’s 28 districts in anticipation of a poor harvest and appealed for more than $200 mil... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

IFPRI Blog: Who’s afraid of high fertilizer prices?

During 2021 and 2022, global food and fertilizer prices spiked due to several overlapping factors. Demand rose as the world economy emerged from the COVID-19 recession; global supply chains suffered major disruptions associated with the uneven recovery... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

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 f... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Policy Seminar: Introducing the new Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS)

The new Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) is a streamlined tool for measuring women’s empowerment, intended for use in large-scale, multitopic surveys conducted by national statistical systems. WEMNS is designed to mea... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

IFPRI Blog: Fertilizer policies amid global supply and price shocks

Achieving efficient and effective fertilizer usage in agricultural production is a critically important economic and environmental policy objective for countries at all stages of economic development, although the nature of the policy problem may vary ... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program