Abstract: The persistence of rural poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa is a major challenge for meeting the Sustainable Development Goal on poverty eradication. Using detailed data for Malawi, we investigate the association between seasonality in labor calen... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Virtual Event: How do Informal Farmland Rental Markets Affect Smallholders’ Well-being? Evidence from a Matched Tenant-Landlord Survey in Malawi
Abstract: The growth of rural land rental markets is often taken as a virtuous component of an African structural transformation process, by facilitating access to land by efficient but land-constrained farmers. Recent empirical work has generally supp... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Virtual Brown Bag: Does Connectivity Reduce Gender Gaps in Off-farm Employment? Evidence from 12 low- and middle- income countries
Virtual Brown Bag: Does Connectivity Reduce Gender Gaps in Off-farm Employment? Evidence from 12 low- and middle- income countries Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 Time: 02:30 PM to 04:00 PM CAT Presenter slides and a blog will be available in the days fo... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
The Gap between Technology Awareness and Adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper has been prepared as an output of the Developing Smart Innovations through Research in Agriculture (DeSIRA) project in Malawi. Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Working Paper 37: The Short-term Impacts of COVID-19 on the Malawian Economy, 2020 – 2021 – A SAM multiplier modeling analysis
This working paper extends and updates the initial results of modeling undertaken by the International Food Policy Research Institute to assess the short-run impacts of COVID-19 control measures on the Malawian economy. Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program