The incidence of poverty at the district level is represented by the poverty headcount ratio, which shows the proportion of the population with consumption expenditures below the national poverty line (MWK 165,879 per person per year, in April 201

This poster uses data from the fourth Integrated Household Survey (IHS4) conducted in all 28 districts and the four major cities of Malawi in 2016/17.

For over 30 years, responses to food insecurity in Ethiopia were dominated by emergency food aid. The Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP), launched in 2005, is a more sustainable response mechanism to recurring droughts.

Agricultural extension is crucial for promoting equality of opportunity among smallholders. Ethiopia has one of Africa’s largest extension systems: 1) 17.5 million smallholder farmers 2) 1 extension agent per 400-500 farmers.

Rural transformation and poverty reduction in Ethiopia require increased agricultural productivity. Limited availability of quality seed to smallholders is a roadblock on the way to productivity growth.

This poster complements our fifth Key Facts Sheet on poverty in Malawi, published in May 2019. The maps and the table are based on data from the fourth Integrated Household Survey (IHS4), which were collected in 2016-2017.

Note: For the 2017 GHI, data on the proportion of undernourished are for 2014–2016; data on child stunting and wasting are for the latest year in the period 2012–2016 for which data are available; and data on child mortality are for 2015.

Countries are making some headway on reducing undernutrition, but it's far too slow. Overweight and obesity are getting worse, not better.

Policies banning or ignoring informal milk markets are counterproductive.

Map and graph of 2014 GHI scores by country.

Rapid political, economic, and agricultural changes have taken place in Ethiopia in the past two decades. Ethiopia has made major advances toward increasing growth and improving human well-being.

From 2007 to 2009, HarvestPlus and its partners disseminated orange sweet potato (OSP) to more than 24,000 households in Mozambique and Uganda to see if we could reduce vitamin A deficiency—through food.