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The Integrated Risk Management Programme (IRMP): Lessons from Malawi
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Online Location
https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000116945/download/
Publication date
23/06/2020
Number of Pages
32
Language:
English
Type of Publication:
Working Papers & Briefs
Focus Region:
Sub-Saharan Africa
Focus Topic:
Rural Finance / Insurance
Climate / Weather / Environment
Agricultural Value Chains / Agri-Businesses
Type of Risk:
Biological & environmental
Type of Risk Managment Option:
Risk coping
Commodity:
Crops
Livestock
Author
World Food Programme (WFP)
SUMMARY
In recent decades, Malawi has been experiencing adverse climatic shocks as most rural farmers still heavily rely on rain-fed agriculture. People’s livelihoods have been disrupted in the process fueling the vicious cycle of hunger.
The World Food Programme (WFP), with support from the Government of Flanders, is implementing an Integrated Risk Management Programme (IRMP), reaching over 40,000 smallholder farmers with a wide range of climate-smart interventions. With a total of 2.5 million EUR, IRMP is a three-year project (2017-2019) implemented in three districts of the southern region of Malawi.
Keywords: Climate resilience