Cyclone Idai has brought destruction to parts of Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe in what could become one of the worst weather-related disasters to hit the Southern Hemisphere in this decade. Hundreds have died and as many as 600,000 people have been displaced, according to the World Food Programme. On March 5, ten days before making >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Publication: Beyond the business case for agricultural value chain development: An economywide approach applied to Egypt
Clemens Breisinger, Mariam Raouf, James Thurlow, Manfred Wiebelt
This paper goes beyond the “business” case for agricultural value chain development and presents an economy-wide framework to make the “development” case. We show that there are several key transmission channels that determine the economy-wide impacts of promoting various value chains, including forward and backward economic linkages, price responses, and net employment effects. Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
Towards a capacity-based resilience building for social cash transfer beneficiaries in Malawi
By design, Social Cash Transfer programs (SCTP) in Malawi target the poorest section of society. But this does not mean that the “poorest” are a homogenous group. There are differences in access to land and ability to work productively. Development players must take this into account by designing interventions that provide different capacity-based packages to >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Publication: Can unconditional cash transfers mitigate the impact of civil conflict on acute child malnutrition in Yemen?: Evidence from the national social protection monitoring survey
Olivier Ecker, Jean-François Maystadt, Zhe Guo
Hunger and acute child malnutrition are increasingly concentrated in fragile countries and civil conflict zones. According to the United Nations, Yemen’s civil war has caused the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in recent history. We use high-frequency panel data and district fixed-effects and household fixed-effects models to estimate the impact of civil conflict on child nutrition. Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
Why and how do Malawian households share humanitarian aid? Early results from a qualitative study
Malawi, with its subsistence-based economy, is particularly vulnerable to agricultural production shocks and has experienced recurrent food crises over the past two decades. These crises regularly trigger humanitarian responses during which hundreds of thousands of households receive aid in the form of direct food or cash transfers. The Food Insecurity Response Plan (FIRP), which sought >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program
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