Food Crises

Responding to El Niño in Malawi

By: Jan Duchoslav, Mazvita Chiduwa, Simon Denhere, Rodwell Mzonde, George Phiri and Joachim De Weerdt Malawi is heading towards a severe food crisis later this year after an El Niño induced mid-season dry spell affected the harvest of maize, the staple... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

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: World Water Day 2024: Invest in women for peace and water security

The theme of this year’s World Water Day (March 22), “Water for Peace,” could not come at a more opportune time. Global water, food, and humanitarian crises have reached near-unprecedented levels: As a 2023 conference of the Pontifical Academy of Scien... 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