This paper provides a preliminary analysis of coupon receipt in the 2008/9 and 2009/10
seasons as reported by households interviewed in the 2010/11 Malawi Integrated
Household Survey (IHS3). Information on the 2008/9 season was obtained from a smaller
number of households than for the 2009/10 season, with a longer recall period that may
have affected the accuracy of some data. The sampling population included urban and rural
households and broadly but not exactly comparable with sample populations for the
household surveys conducted in the FISP evaluations in 2006/7, 2008/9 and 2010/11.
Estimates of total fertiliser coupon distribution are similar to but lower than estimates from
the FISP evaluation surveys but there is consistency in apparent increased reduction in
diversion after the 2008/9 season. General patterns of targeting of fertiliser coupons and of
‘sharing’ are similar across the different surveys. Across the surveys there is no evidence of
pro-poor targeting and some evidence of bias against poorer households, but not against
female headed households. IHS3 respondents reported very few of irregularities in coupon
distribution and redemption. Estimates of seed coupon receipts are, however, very low.