The conversation published an article by Joachim De Weerdt and Jan Duchoslav. The article discusses Malawi's impending severe food crisis due to a drought caused by the El Niño weather pattern, which has drastically reduced the harvest of maize, the co... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Ensuring food security in a state of disaster
By: Jan Duchoslav and Joachim De Weerdt On 23 March 2024, His Excellency the President declared a state of disaster in 23 of Malawi’s 28 districts in anticipation of a poor harvest caused by the ongoing El Niño climatic event. El Niño has brought about... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
India’s export restrictions on rice continue to disrupt global markets, supplies, and prices
Understanding the impact of weather and India's export restrictions on global rice markets. Source: IFPRI South Asia Office
El Niño: Malawi’s harvest of maize – its staple food – may fall by 22.5% this year (The Conversation)
The Conversation published an article by Joachim De Weerdt, Channing Arndt, James Thurlow, Jan Duchoslav, Joseph Glauber, Liangzhi You, and Weston Anderson. The article looked at possible weather pattern changes driven by El Niño – an unusual warming o... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Virtual Brown Bag: 8 September, 2021: From Bad to Worse- Poverty Impacts of Food Availability Responses to Weather Shocks
Abstract Since Amartya Sen's famous work on Poverty and Famines, economists have understood that the impacts of food market shocks on the poor depend much more on their impacts on households’ incomes and access to food than on overall food availability... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
