Impacts of Africa RISING in Malawi

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationWorld Banken
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationMichigan State Universityen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Bolognaen
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.coverage.countryMalawi
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2MW
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierBeliyou Haile: 0000-0003-4949-6740en
cg.creator.identifierCarlo Azzarri: 0000-0002-0345-1304en
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Africa Risingen
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot rankeden
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
cg.subject.impactAreaPoverty reduction, livelihoods and jobs
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
cg.subject.sdgSDG 1 - No povertyen
cg.subject.sdgSDG 2 - Zero hungeren
dc.contributor.authorHaile, Beliyouen
dc.contributor.authorAzzarri, Carloen
dc.contributor.authorBoukaka, Sedi Anneen
dc.contributor.authorChikowo, Regisen
dc.contributor.authorVitellozzi, Svevaen
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-24T21:21:05Zen
dc.date.available2024-06-24T21:21:05Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/148699
dc.titleImpacts of Africa RISING in Malawien
dcterms.abstractThis study evaluates the impact of Africa RISING, a large-scale sustainable intensification (SI) program that has been implemented in Central Malawi’s Dedza and Ntcheu districts beginning in 2012. Using a participatory action research framework, the program validated and promoted alternative SI options including fertilized maize, maize-legume intercropping, intercropping of two compatible legumes, cereal-legume rotation, and double-row planting of legumes. Impact is estimated on several SI indicators and domains using two rounds of panel data and difference-in-differences techniques. The unique study design allowed us to estimate impact by comparing outcomes among program beneficiaries with two different counterfactual groups—one located inside program villages (within village comparison) and another in non-program (control) villages (out-of-village comparison). We also conduct a placebo test comparing non-beneficiaries in the two counterfactual groups. The within-village comparison shows positive impact on several agricultural and economic indicators including access to agricultural information, value of harvest, on-farm diversity, labor profitability, annual net household income, per capita household consumption expenditure, household wealth, and household dietary diversity score. We do not find a statistically significant impact on human indicators such as child and maternal nutrition. Estimates based on within-village, out-of-village, and placebo comparisons suggest important insights about the challenges in assessing the impact of agricultural programs in general and, specifically, participatory multi-intervention programs in the presence of sample (self-)selection and spillovers. Our study highlights important lessons learned to inform future program design and impact assessments.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceCGIARen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationHaile, Beliyou; Azzarri, Carlo; Boukaka, Sedi-Anne; Chikowo, Regis; and Vitellozzi, Sveva. 2024. Impacts of Africa RISING in Malawi. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148699en
dcterms.extent38 p.en
dcterms.issued2024-06-24en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.subjectsustainabilityen
dcterms.subjectintensificationen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectmaizeen
dcterms.subjectlegumesen
dcterms.subjectindicatorsen
dcterms.subjectincomeen
dcterms.subjectnutritionen
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