Today, frequent and severe shocks, especially droughts, limit the livelihood opportunities available to millions of households and undermine efforts to eradicate poverty in the drylands. These shocks regularly...
In response to a series of humanitarian crises, especially the drought-induced emergencies that occurred in the Horn of Africa in 2011 and the Sahel in 2012, national governments and the international...
Malawi has experienced several catastrophic droughts over the past few decades. The impact of these shocks has been far reaching, and the resulting macroeconomic instability has been a major constraint...
Malawi periodically experiences drought leading to shortages of grain on the domestic market and a sharp increase in consumer prices. Consumers, including many of the poorest farmers in the country, experience...
The mission of the Commodity Risk Management Group (CRMG) of the World Bank Agricultural and Rural Development Department (ARD) is to help improve developing countries ability to manage risk related to...
Malawi's maize marketing policy is dominated by concerns about ensuring national food security. This policy is conditioned by three major factors. First, maize dominates the food economy. Second, when...
The main purpose of this report is to conceptualize an ex-ante risk management framework for weather risk in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. The report lays out an overall food...