Working Paper 27 examines Malawi’s challenging employment landscape, focusing on the country's rapidly growing youth population. Using three rounds of the Integrated Household Survey, carried out between 2004 and 2016, the authors found little evidence of a structural transformation in Malawi’s economy or of youth benefiting from changing patterns of employment. While the share of >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Shelter from the Storm? Household-Level Impacts of, and Responses to, the 2015 Floods in Malawi
Overdependence on rain-fed agriculture by rural households in Malawi puts them at risk of crop losses tied to extreme weather events, like floods and droughts. In recent years, Malawi has experienced an increase in frequency, intensity and spread of these events. In January 2015, severe flooding in Malawi affected over a million families, displacing 230,000 >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Working Paper 25: Commodity Exchanges and Warehouse Receipts in Malawi
Malawi has a unique commodity exchange (Comex) landscape with two commodity exchanges: the Agriculture Commodity Exchange (ACE) and Auction Holdings Commodity Exchange (AHCX). In addition to these two commodity exchanges, there are parallel systems like the Warehouse receipt System (WRS) that advance collateral financing. The volumes traded at the Comex and WRS are only a >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Op-ed: Will structured markets really deliver higher prices for Malawian farmers?
*This op-ed was written by Dr. Bob Baulch, Program Leader for IFPRI Malawi, Lilongwe. When I first came back to Malawi, two-and-a-half years ago, I had barely heard the term ‘structured markets’─ despite having spent most of the previous 25 years working on agricultural marketing issues in over 20 developing countries. When I asked my IFPRI colleagues >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Unleashing the full potential of agriculture: 2018 National Agriculture Fair
“Unleashing the full potential of agriculture: the role of markets.” This was the theme for Malawi's recently concluded 15th National Agriculture Fair, held in thee country's commerce city, Blantyre, from September 12-15th. The event drew participants from all over the country to engage and share agricultural technologies innovations and successes - particularly related to growing >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program
