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  Population 37.53 mln
  
  Population growth 3%
  
  Life expectancy 54 years
  
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All eggs in one basket : A reflection on Malawi’s dependence on agricultural growth strategy

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Following democratization in 1994, the Malawi government put great emphasis on reducing poverty. The predominantly agrarian economy has had little rural-urban migration and Malawi’s current level of industrialization and urbanization is low by world standards. A recent paper analyzes Malawi’s dependence on an agriculture-based development strategy. The authors find that the country currently does not have a strategy for economic and agricultural diversification to ensure continued growth.

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Moushumi Biswas on May 22, 2012

Reducing the Risk of Food and Nutrition Insecurity among Vulnerable Populations

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Vulnerable populations are minimally resilient to shocks, whether caused by humans or natural disasters. Emerging threats and new trends—such as climate change, population growth, aging societies, urbanization, infectious as well as noncommunicable diseases, and environmental degradation—are bound to aggravate the consequences of shocks on already vulnerable populations by triggering damage, loss, and displacement. Such threats pose an additional hurdle to the stated policy objective of the more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 16, 2012

Environmental Migrants: A Myth?

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Environmental migration has been the subject of lively debate in recent years. Recent International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) research lets us put this debate into perspective. Microlevel evidence has improved our understanding of how climate affects individual and household decisions to migrate over time in African and Asian countries. Macrolevel analyses help us assess whether such country-specific evidence may be systematic enough to constitute a global phenomenon.

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Moushumi Biswas on May 03, 2012

2011 Global Food Policy Report

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The 2011 Global Food Policy Report is a new edition of the annual International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) publication that provides a comprehensive, research-based analysis of major food policy challenges at the global, regional, national, and local levels. It highlights important developments and events in food policy that occurred in 2011, discusses lessons learned, offers policy recommendations, presents IFRPI’s food policy tools and indicators, and takes a look forward into more...

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John Daly on April 26, 2012

Growth in total factor productivity in the Ethiopian agriculture sector

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During the 2003/04–2008/09 period agricultural production in Ethiopia grew annually at 9.3 percent while cultivated area expanded at 4.7 percent. The remaining growth resulted from intensive use of other inputs, increased productivity, increased efficiency, or a combination of these factors. This study applies growth accounting and two econometric approaches on sector and administrative zone level data to investigate the issue.

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Moushumi Biswas on May 09, 2012

Global Food Policy Report 2011

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The 2011 Global Food Policy Report is a new annual IFPRI publication that provides a comprehensive, research-based analysis of major food policy challenges at the global, regional, national, and local levels. It highlights important developments and events in food policy that occurred in 2011, discusses lessons learned, offers policy recommendations, presents IFPRI’s food policy tools and indicators, and takes a look forward into 2012. The Report reflects perspectives from across the globe.

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Moushumi Biswas on April 23, 2012

Putting Gender on the Map in Sub-Saharan Africa

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No stone should go unturned in efforts to boost agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet researchers have only begun to give serious attention to one crucial aspect of this complex challenge: gender.On World Water Day, IFPRI and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) launched an innovative mapping tool that gathers and displays information about gender-defined farming roles—including those related to water management—in Sub-Saharan Africa.Despite misconceptions about more...

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Susan Buzzelli on April 02, 2012

The relevance of content in ICT initiatives in Indian agriculture

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In the past decade, many information and communication technology (ICT) projects in Indian agriculture have emerged, either substituting or supporting extension services by providing farmers with access to agricultural information. ICTs have the potential to reach many farmers with timely and accessible content. But the content that the ICTs deliver has more relevance if it is localized and context specific, as this improves the value and actionability of the information, which can have more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 02, 2012

The brokerage institution and the development of agricultural markets

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Recognition that policies aimed at ‘getting prices right’ in less-developed countries have not been successful due to incomplete markets has spurred a new wave of reforms aimed instead at ‘getting markets and institutions right’. Previous studies of this policy shift have documented the potentially crucial role played by the brokerage institution in crop commercialization. However, few have investigated the factors that influence wholesalers’ decisions regarding their use of brokers.

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Moushumi Biswas on April 15, 2012

Increasing Agricultural Productivity & Enhancing Food Security in Africa

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Increasing agricultural productivity in Africa calls for broader policy and strategic frameworks that encompass agro-industrial and agribusiness services along with farming. The agricultural system’s transformation will have the most impact when innovators have the explicit perspective that the green revolution and agro-industrial and agribusiness development must go hand-in-hand. This perspective will result in innovations that reduce poverty through broad-based economic growth, which includes more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 02, 2012

Working multisectorally in nutrition

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Improving nutrition in developing nations is likely to require a multisectoral approach that involves a variety of ministries and organizations addressing particular aspects of the problem. Despite the promise of such multisectoral efforts, relatively little research has been done on how such efforts can be made effective. Working Multisectorally in Nutrition: Principles, Practices, and Case Studies provides much-needed evidence on this topic. Using case studies from Senegal and Colombia of more...

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Moushumi Biswas on February 12, 2012

Urbanization and fertility rates in Ethiopia

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Fertility rates are important determinants of overall population growth and demographic transitions from high to low age dependency ratios. These in turn have important consequences for economic growth, poverty reduction, and improved health and nutrition outcomes. Ethiopia currently has one of the highest fertility rates in the world, although there are marked differences between rural and urban fertility rates. This paper explores the drivers of rural and urban fertility rates, including more...

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Moushumi Biswas on March 13, 2012

Agricultural productivity and public expenditures in sub-Saharan Africa

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National governments, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, have limited budgets and are forced to make difficult funding decisions regarding the provision of social services and the support of agricultural programs. These provisions can play a critical role in rural incomes and agricultural production but due to data constraints, the effects of different types of social services on agricultural productivity in this region have not been analyzed in detail.

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Moushumi Biswas on April 24, 2012

Review of literature on agricultural productivity, social capital and food security in Nigeria

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Despite the rapid pace of urbanization taking place in Nigeria, half of Nigerians (approximately 70 million individuals) still live in rural areas; most of them engaged in smallholder semi-subsistence agriculture. Agriculture remains a crucial sector in the Nigerian economy, being a major source of raw materials, food and foreign exchange; employing over 70 percent of the Nigerian labor force, and serving as a potential vehicle for diversifying the Nigerian economy.

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Moushumi Biswas on April 15, 2012

Unleashing agriculture's potential for improved nutrition and health in Malawi

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Malawi is the first country in the world to organize a national event to follow up on and translate the findings and recommendations from the global conference and develop country-specific policy actions. IFPRI’s Malawi office and its 2020 Vision Initiative, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, and supported by USAID and Irish Aid, organized the conference, “Unleashing Agriculture’s Potential for Improved Nutrition and Health in Malawi” on more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 03, 2012

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