Malawi

IFPRI Malawi Maize Market Report February 2020

Fluctuations in the price of maize—Malawi’s most important staple crop—are a huge contributor to the country’s overall food security. Providing maize price information in markets throughout the country is a critical first step to understanding and impr... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Africa’s Litigated Democracy

Project Syndicate published an op-ed by IFPRI's Senior Research Fellows Bob Baulch and Danielle Resnick. The op-ed discusses Malawi’s litigated general elections and compares it to re-run elections held in other African countries. The authors suggest f... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Policy Note 36: Market Information and Access to Structured Markets by Small Farmers and Traders

This Policy Note summarizes Working Paper 33, which examines the impact of providing price information from a commodity exchange to small farmers and traders of maize and soybean in central Malawi. Using data from a panel survey of 399 farmers and 78 t... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Infrastructure, droughts, floods, and food security: Field research in Malawi

This blog is cross posted from the ZEF website and was originally written by Henry Kankwamba, Junior researcher in ZEF’s Department of Economic and Technological Change. The sun scorched us mercilessly as we got out of the Toyota Land Cruiser 70 Series... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Working Paper 33: Market Information and Access to Structured Markets by Small Farmers and Traders

Working Paper 33 analyzes the effects of an action research experiment in central Malawi, in which four groups of smallholder farmers were provided with maize and soybean price information from a local commodity exchange during the 2019 marketing seaso... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program