Publications
Working Paper
Farmer groups as ICT Hubs: Findings from a cluster-randomized controlled trial in Malawi
Report
Impacts of Africa RISING in Malawi
Report
Africa RISING impact assessment report
Datasets
Dataset
Implications of Residue Quantity and Quality on Rotational Maize Productivity
Dataset
Assessing the Effect of Residue Quantity and Quality, and Water Conservation on Maize Productivity and Nitrogen Dynamics on Smallholder Farms in Malawi
Dataset
2019 Social Accounting Matrix for Malawi
Blogs
Responding to Malawi’s impending food crisis
Food imports can make up for shortages if quick action is taken.
Act now to address Malawi’s looming food crisis
Harvest shortfalls caused by severe drought conditions.
Climate Risk to Resilience: Financing adaptation in African countries
New insights for scaling up efforts in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia.
Events
Implications of El Niño 2023/24 for Africa South of the Sahara
Virtual Event: November 29, 2023 at 7:30am-9:00am EST. IFPRI in collaboration with USAID FEWS NET and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, is hosting a presentation on the potential impact of the upcoming El Niño on the global agrifood system, with special emphasis on low-income countries in Africa South of the Sahara. The event will be organized around four short talks.
How USD 10 billion can transform food systems in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria: Report launch
Virtual Event: March 16, 2023 – 9:00 AM- 10:30 AM EDT. This seminar will discuss how sustainable food system transformation can be achieved in the next decade in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria by increasing public investment by US$10 billion per year (on average from 2023 to 2030) and implementing a more effective portfolio of interventions that achieve multiple outcomes.
2022 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting
Virtual Event: July 31, 2022 – 10:00 AM to August 2, 2022 – 6:15 PM PDT. IFPRI is participating in the 2022 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting.
News
In Memoriam: Hon. Saulos Chilima, Vice President of Malawi
IFPRI extends sincere condolences in relation to the tragic accident that claimed lives of Dr. Chilima and fellow passengers.
Women key to crop success in low-income countries
This post is a slightly modified version of the original press release issued by the University of Edinburgh. Empowering women farmers in low and middle-income countries can lead to greater crop diversity helping to improve year-round supply of healthy foods, suggests a new article published in The Lancet Planetary Health by a group of authors including […]
Editorial: Empower women to grow (The Lancet Planetary Health)
“Almost half of the world’s agricultural workers are women and women farmers produce up to 80% of the food grown in LMICs. Despite their large contribution to agricultural labor, fewer than 20% of landowners globally are women,” writes The Lancet Planetary Health in an editorial featuring a new article co-authored by IFPRI’s Lilia Bliznashka, Aulo Gelli, and […]
Projects
Developing Smart Innovations through Research in Agriculture (DeSIRA) Project
The Developing Smart Innovations through Research in Agriculture (DeSIRA) initiative is a five-year agricultural research project funded by the EU. Its main objective is to……