Malawi

Event recap: Do Cash+ interventions enable improved resilience and dietary diversity in southern Malawi?

Social protection programs, such as the Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCTP) that provide regular and predictable additional financial support are critical to the ultra-poor in Malawi. Such programs can be complemented with interventions (cash+) that ... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Malawi’s Population: Demographic Dividend or Curse? A commentary on the NSO’s latest population projections

This commentary on the NSO’s latest population projections was written by Bob Baulch and Grace Kumchulesi. Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

The Short-Term Impacts of COVID-19 on the Malawian Economy, 2020–2021

This paper has been written for the 2020 ECAMA Lakeshore Conference. It extends and updates the initial results of modeling undertaken by IFPRI to assess the short-run impacts of COVID-19 control measures on the Malawian economy. Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Virtual Brown Bag: Biofortification – Nutritionally Enriched Staple Crops, the Foundation of the Food System

Please join us for our next IFPRI Malawi virtual brown bag on November 25, 2020. Topic: Biofortification - Nutritionally Enriched Staple Crops, the Foundation of the Food System Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Policy Note 40: Promoting Participation in Value Chains for Pulses in Malawi

In this Policy Note, Todd Benson examines both household and spatial factors that may drive participation by smallholder farming households in commercial value chains for pulses, legume crops that are primarily harvested for their dry seed. Here the fo... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program