A new MaSSP Project Note analyses the price of maize and soybean in Malawi during the main harvest marketing season of 2020. The authors used crowdsourced data from 1,048 maize and 1,265 soybean farmers by broadcasting jingles on three leading radio st... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Crowdsourcing farm gate prices for maize and soybeans – preliminary findings
In Malawi, accurate information on farm gate prices is hard to obtain. However, it is important to monitor farm gate prices to determine if they incentivize future agricultural production, especially at this time of the global COVID-19 pandemic, which ... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Market Information and Farmers’ Access to Structured Markets
In an IFPRI Malawi brown bag research seminar on February 26, 2020 Rosemary Botha presented the findings of a recent IFPRI Malawi study, which analyzed whether providing better price information increases volumes sold through structured markets, sales ... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program