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Lilia Bliznashka

Lily Bliznashka is a Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. Her research focuses on assessing the effectiveness of multi-input nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific interventions and the mechanisms through which they work to improve maternal and child health and nutrition globally. She has worked in Burkina Faso, Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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The Value Chains knowledge portal (tools4valuechains.org) is a repository of tools and methods, publications, training content, and information about events related to value chain research……

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Banking systems, capital markets, and financing the transformation of food systems: The role of macroeconomics, regulations, and incentives

2025Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio; Zandstra, Tamsin
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Banking systems, capital markets, and financing the transformation of food systems: The role of macroeconomics, regulations, and incentives

Improving food systems requires significant expenditures and investments from both the public and private sector. In the case of public outlays, the decisions are taken by the government or by multilateral international organizations (with governments as their owners), while, obviously, private expenditures and investments depend on choices by the private sector. These private financial flows are guided by the decisions of consumers, producers, banking system institutions, and operators in capital markets. Public policy cannot dictate directly how those private actors act (for instance, governments cannot mandate that consumers must eat healthy diets), but it can influence those decisions through adequate macroeconomic, regulatory, and incentive frameworks. This discussion paper will focus briefly on some ideas about how those frameworks can reorient and expand current levels of funding towards food systems transformation, focusing particularly on banking systems and capital markets. First, it briefly analyzes the levels of financial flows in the banking system and capital markets. Then it looks at the role of macroeconomic policy in influencing the operations of food systems, followed by suggestions about other regulatory and incentive frameworks to create healthy, equitable, sustainable and climate-resilient food systems.

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2025

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Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio; Zandstra, Tamsin

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Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio; and Zandstra, Tamsin. 2025. Banking systems, capital markets, and financing the transformation of food systems: The role of macroeconomics, regulations, and incentives. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2349. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175792

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Banking; Capital Markets; Financing; Food Systems; Economic Systems; Macroeconomics; Regulations; Incentives

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English

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Open Access

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IFPRI Malawi monthly maize market report, March 2025

2025International Food Policy Research Institute
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IFPRI Malawi monthly maize market report, March 2025

Highlights MARCH 2025 Retail prices of maize declined on average by 25 percent in March thanks to the arrival of newly harvested maize on the market. The depreciation of the Malawi kwacha against neighboring currencies at the informal exchange rates used for most cross-border maize trade slowed down in March, which further eased pressure on prices. Imports of old maize from Tanzania were increasingly complemented by new maize coming in from Mozambique and southern Zambia. By the end of March, imports dominated exports at nearly all border crossings.

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2025

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International Food Policy Research Institute

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International Food Policy Research Institute. 2025. IFPRI Malawi monthly maize market report, March 2025. MaSSP Monthly Maize Market Report March 2025. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174319

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Malawi

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Africa; Eastern Africa; Southern Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Food Prices; Maize; Market Prices; Retail Prices

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English

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Open Access

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IFPRI Malawi monthly maize market report, January 2025

2025International Food Policy Research Institute; Banda, Chimwemwe
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IFPRI Malawi monthly maize market report, January 2025

Highlights  Retail prices of maize increased by 21 percent in January.  Maize prices were lowest in the Northern region, where informal imports from Tanzania and northern Zambia enter the country, and increased southward.  Some maize was exported to southern Zambia, but high prices in southern Malawi attracted imports from Mozambique.  At the market exchange rate, retail prices of maize in Malawi were similar to those in Zambia and lower than in Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

Year published

2025

Authors

International Food Policy Research Institute; Banda, Chimwemwe

Citation

International Food Policy Research Institute. 2025. IFPRI Malawi monthly maize market report, January 2025. MaSSP Monthly Maize Market Report January 2025. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/172961

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Malawi

Keywords

Africa; Eastern Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Markets; Prices; Retail Prices; Food Prices; Maize

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English

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Limited Access

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National Policies and Strategies

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Evaluating impacts: Lessons from food systems interventions across Africa and Asia
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July 16, 2024

Evaluating impacts: Lessons from food systems interventions across Africa and Asia

By Jef L. Leroy, Lynnette Neufeld, Stella Nordhagen, and Sydney Honeycutt

Transforming food systems is promising but complex, requiring strong evidence and rigorous evaluations to ensure effective interventions.