Current Research Projects
Funding Organisation: National Institute of Health (NIH), United States Govt
Duration: 5 Years (2017-2022)
Countries Involved: Malawi, Zambia, Kenya and Indonesia
Implementers: American Cancer Society (Grant Holder)
- Centre for Agricultural Research and Development [MALAWI]
- University of Zambia, School of Medicine [Zambia]
- International Institute for Legislative Affairs [Kenya]
- SurveyMETER [Indonesia]
Colaborators: McGill University [Canada]; University of Ottawa [Canada].
Objectives: Using the field of political economy as the overarching approach to the research and the corresponding training and dissemination efforts, the project has three specific aims:
-To develop a rigorous theoretical and empirical framework that helps to elucidate the livelihoods of tobacco farmers in LMICs.
- Using individual-level economic surveys of nationally-representative samples of tobacco farmers in four major tobacco-growing countries and focus group discussions with farmers to establish empirically the landscape of these livelihoods in order to inform relevant public health and agro-economic policies.
- To grow capacity in four LMICs at the nexus of agro-economic and public health policies .
Investigators: Dr. Donald Makoka, Research Fellow, CARD
Funding Organisation: Michigan State University Alliance for African Partnership
Duration: 2 Years (2017-2018)
Countries Involved: Malawi, Zambia, Kenya and Indonesia
Implementers: Michigan State University
- the African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership
- the Regional Network of Agricultural Policy Research Institutes (ReNAPRI)
- the New Markets Lab, and the International Fertilizer Development Center.
Colaborators: McGill University [Canada]; University of Ottawa [Canada].
Objectives: To understand the fertilizer supply chain in Africa, including an assessment of the enabling environment through analysis of policies and regulations.
Investigators: Mr. Richard Kachule, Research Fellow, CARD
Funding Organisation: University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Duration: 5 Years (2017-2022)
Countries Involved: Malawi
Implementers: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Centre for Agricultural Research and Development (CARD)
- University of Zimbabwe
- Center for Environmental, Technology, and Energy Economics
- RTI International
- Copper belt University, (Zambia)
Objectives: The objective of the project is to foster a path-breaking integrated research, training, and policy outreach program focused on energy poverty in Southern Africa by addressing the questions:
what types of energy poverty interventions offer promising scalable and sustainable social and environmental solutions?
Investigators: Prof. Charles Jumbe, Research Professor, CARD;
Dr. Thabbie Chilongo, Acting Director, CARD.