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Brief: Impacts of the Ukraine and Global Crises on Poverty and Food Security in Malawi

Global food, fuel, and fertilizer prices have risen rapidly in recent months, raising concerns about how this will affect economic stability, food security, and poverty in developing countries. We used IFPRI’s economywide model – known as RIAPA – to si... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

IFPRI Tool: Food and fertilizer export restrictions tracker

A data visualization tool, tracking restrictions on export and fertilizers by country and commodity. Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Policy Seminar: Are healthy diets affordable?

New Food Prices for Nutrition data in the SOFI 2022 report launching on July 6th uses retail food prices to compute diet costs and the number of people who cannot afford a healthy diet globally. Underlying costs by food group will be published simultan... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Policy Note 46: Are Fertilizer Subsidies in Malawi Value for Money?

It is easy enough to calculate how much the Government of Malawi spends on subsidizing chemical fertilizer. Last year, for example, this was MWK 120 billion (about US$ 150 million) taking up over 50% of the agricultural budget. It is much harder, howev... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

IFPRI Blog: Short-term policy considerations to respond to Russia-Ukraine crisis disruptions in fertilizer availability and affordability

As we discussed in our previous post, fertilizer prices have increased drastically, +230%, since May 2020. Now—driven upward by supply disruptions stemming from the Russia-Ukraine conflict—they are nearing the peak reached in August 2008 during the las... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program