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Kate Amber is a Senior Research Fellow in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit. Kate’s research broadly focuses on interventions that can increase incomes for smallholders and other microenterprises in agrifood value chains, with a specific focus on the inclusion of women. This includes work on programming in fragile settings, innovations in agricultural finance, and regulatory solutions for food safety. 

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Henry Kankwamba

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Henry Kankwamba is an Associate Research Fellow in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, based in Washington, DC. Before joining IFPRI, he was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at Bunda College of Agriculture in Malawi. He has collaborated extensively in policy research with governments and international research institutions such as the Malawi and German governments, the World Bank Group, IFPRI, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO). He obtained his PhD in Development and Agricultural Economics from the University of Bonn, Germany, and master’s degree in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Malawi. Henry is fluent in English and Chichewa and has functional German and French.

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Malawi: Systematic analysis of climate and world market shocks

2024Mukashov, Askar; Duchoslav, Jan; Kankwamba, Henry; Jones, Eleanor; Thurlow, James
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Malawi: Systematic analysis of climate and world market shocks

This study explores Malawi’s vulnerability to economic and climatic shocks and identifies those contributing most to economic uncertainty. The Malawian Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model was employed to simu late a range of potential economic outcomes under various sampled shock scenarios developed using historical data to capture domestic agricultural yield volatilities and world market prices uncertainty for traded goods. Data mining and machine learning methods were applied to quantify the contribution of each shock to the un certainty of economic outcomes (gross domestic product [GDP], private consumption, poverty, and undernour ishment). Key findings suggest that domestic cereals and oilseeds yield volatility risks are the most important for the uncertainty of total GDP and consumption across all household types except rural low-income households. Rural low-income households’ consumption and poverty are exposed to a wide range of risks, including produc tivity volatility of livestock, yield volatility of oilseeds, cereals, and vegetables and world market price of beverage crops. Finally, for undernourishment outcomes, volatility in the yields of staple cereals is the dominant risk factor for all household types. Understanding how possible shocks would impact various segments of the Malawian economy and population is a critical first step in facilitating discussions on relevant risk mitigation strategies, such as increasing average crop yields, adopting technologies and practices that narrow yield uncertainties, or diversifying production away from risky crops and sectors.

Year published

2024

Authors

Mukashov, Askar; Duchoslav, Jan; Kankwamba, Henry; Jones, Eleanor; Thurlow, James

Citation

Mukashov, Askar; Duchoslav, Jan; Kankwamba, Henry; Jones, Eleanor; and Thurlow, James. 2024. Malawi: Systematic analysis of climate and world market shocks. Economywide Risk Assessment Country Brief 3. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/168174

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Malawi

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Africa; Eastern Africa; Shock; Economic Shock; Computable General Equilibrium Models; Agriculture; Market Prices; Poverty; Nutrition; Crop Yield; Machine Learning; Climate

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Foresight

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Mitigating the impact of El Niño on hunger in Malawi

2023
Anderson, Weston; Chiduwa, Mazvita; Weerdt, Joachim de; Diao, Xinshen; Duchoslav, Jan; Guo, Zhe; Kankwamba, Henry; Jamali, Andrew; Nagoli, Joseph; Thurlow, James
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Mitigating the impact of El Niño on hunger in Malawi

El Niño is a phase in an irregular periodic variation in winds and sea surface temperatures over the Pacific Ocean. It occurs on average every 2 to 7 years and typically lasts between 9 months and 2 years. El Niño affects the global weather patterns, resulting in above-average precipitation in some places and droughts in others. Malawi and its neighbors typically experience drier than usual weather during El Niño, which often leads to poor growing conditions and below-average harvests.

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2023

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Anderson, Weston; Chiduwa, Mazvita; Weerdt, Joachim de; Diao, Xinshen; Duchoslav, Jan; Guo, Zhe; Kankwamba, Henry; Jamali, Andrew; Nagoli, Joseph; Thurlow, James; You, Liangzhi

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Anderson, Weston; Chiduwa, Mazvita; De Weerdt, Joachim; Diao, Xinshen; Duchoslav, Jan; Guo, Zhe; et al. 2023. Mitigating the impact of El Niño on hunger in Malawi. MaSSP Policy Note 51. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136971.

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Malawi

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Africa; Southern Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Eastern Africa; El Niño; Temperature; Pacific Ocean; Weather; Precipitation; Drought; Agriculture; Food

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136971 Source record

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National Policies and Strategies

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2019 social accounting matrix for Malawi: A Nexus project SAM

2023Kankwamba, Henry; Pauw, Karl; Randriamamonjy, Josee; Thurlow, James
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2019 social accounting matrix for Malawi: A Nexus project SAM

The 2019 Malawi Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) follows IFPRI’s Standard Nexus SAM approach, by focusing on consistency, comparability, and transparency of data. The Nexus SAMs available on IFPRI’s website separates domestic production into 42 activities. Factors are disaggregated into labor, agricultural land, and capital, with labor further disaggregated across three education-based categories. The household account is divided into 10 representative household groups: Rural and urban households across per capita consumption quintiles. Nexus SAMs support the improvement of model-based research and policy analysis in developing countries and allow for more robust cross-country comparisons of national economic structures, especially agriculture-food systems.

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2023

Authors

Kankwamba, Henry; Pauw, Karl; Randriamamonjy, Josee; Thurlow, James

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Kankwamba, Henry; Pauw, Karl; Randriamamonjy, Josee; and Thurlow, James. 2023. 2019 social accounting matrix for Malawi: A Nexus project SAM. Data Paper September 2023. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). . https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131977

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Malawi

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Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Eastern Africa; Data; Households; Gender; Inocme; Production; Trade; Surveys; Commodities; Labour; Capital; Land

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Foresight

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How should governments respond to crises? Rapid response using RIAPA modeling system
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How should governments respond to crises? Rapid response using RIAPA modeling system

IFPRI’s foresight modeling systems cover food, land, and water systems across the world’s poorest and most food insecure geographies. Thanks to longstanding investments in these systems, IFPRI is uniquely positioned to provide rapid analysis of the impacts of global or domestic crises on agrifood systems, poverty, and food security at global, regional, national, or subnational […]