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Malawi, a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa, is vulnerable to the impacts of  climate change. Agriculture is the backbone of its economy, supporting more than 80%  of the population, contributing 30%...

Highlights: Multiple season farmers consume one more food group weekly and have a higher Food Consumption Score. Multiple season farmers cultivate 1–2...

Highlights: Kinship norms, gender, and climate interact in shaping resilience to food insecurity. Matrilineal-Matrilocal kinships protect female farming households in normal times. Female land-managed...

This brief provides an overview of the Investing in Livelihood Resilience and Soil Health in ACP Countries (ILSA) programme in Malawi, funded by the European Union and implemented by IFAD. The ILSA programme...

The Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition in collaboration with the Governments of Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Ethiopia, has undertaken a one-year study on the resilience of food systems. This report...

The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Strategy and Action Plan (2026-2035) is a key framework aimed at transforming Africa’s agrifood systems to achieve sustainable agricultural...

This paper examines the impact of livelihood diversification on food insecurity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis uses household panel data from Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria in which the first...

Desertification affects every continent, but it remains difficult to fully measure the rate and extent of desertification at a global level due to its many forms and to lack of standardized...

Leveraging advancements in remote data collection and using the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) as a proxy measure of resilience, we show that machine learning models (such...

The main objectives of this study were to assess the prevalent and most challenging climate risks in the Zambezi River Basin countries, understand the role of digital technology in climate adaptation...