Research and Innovation

This section provides cooperative members with access to recently published information covering cooperative capacity building, innovative agricultural production practices, gender and youth inclusivity, environmental sustainability, adaptability and resilience, and food security and
nutrition.

Malawi’s Agriculture Sector - General

Food Systems Profile – MALAWI Catalysing the sustainable and inclusive transformation of food systems (FAO, EU, CIRAD, 2023)

Cooperative Studies

IFPRI (CGIAR), 2023: Primary Cooperatives in Malawi: Structure, Conduct and Performance
IFPRI (CGIAR), 2022: Primary Cooperatives in Malawi: Issues Affecting Performance and Inclusion
IFPRI (CGIAR), 2022: Can Cooperatives Commercialize Farming in Malawi
UNDP Paper on Agricultural Commercialization in Malawi, 2023
FAO, 2023, Assessment of Apex Farmer Organizations Engaged in Agri-Business in Malawi

Cooperative Success Stories

Malawi Investment and Trade Centre, 2024: Bwanje Valley Rice Cooperative
Spirit in Action, 2022: Manyamula Community Savings and Investment Promotion (COMSIP)
NEEF, 2023
Agdevco, 2018: Phata - A Successful Cooperative Model
Malawi Institute of Journalism, 2022: Cooperatives Changing Lives of Farmers
MUSCCO and COMSIP Credit Unions
CDF Canada

Innovative Production Practices

Agriculture Mechanization in Malawi: Efforts, Obstacles, Policy Implications and Options (UNDP, 2022)
Integrated Pest Management (Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Agriculture Sector Wide Pest Management Plan , 2012)
The African Goat Improvement Network: Empowering Small Farmers in Malawi, 2023
Post-Harvest Activities in Soybeans Malawi, Farm Radio Scripts, 2021
Turning Waste into Value: Using Urine to Enrich Soils, Science Direct, 2015
Climate Smart Pigeon Peas (CGIAR, 2022)
Guide to Groundnut Production in Malawi, ftf peanut lab, 2021
Community Seed Banks in Malawi (CGIAR, 2018)
Tiyeni System of Deep Bed Farming
Permaculture Paradise Institute
World Agroforestry

Gender and Youth Inclusion

Gender Equality in Cooperatives in Malawi (Euopean Journal of Business, Economics and Accountancy, 2018)
Achieving Gender and Youth Inclusivity in Malawi through Productive Alliances (WB, 2022)
Women-Led Cooperatives in Malawi (Green Policy Platform, video, 2022)
Ministry of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare

Environmental Sustainability, Adaptability and Resilience

Climate Change Adaptation Best Practices: Towards Enhancing Smallholder Farmers Livlihood (Centre for Environmental Policy and Advocacy)
Malawi’s National Adaptation Plan Framework (Malawi Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy, Mining, Environmental Affairs Department, March 2020)
Climate Change Impacts in Milawi (ReliefWeb November 2023):
Malawi Climate Change Country Profile (USAID, 2023)
CIMMYT - Malawi Climate Smart Agriculture
Alliance Biodiversity and CIAT

Food Security and Nutrition

Malawi Government Agriculture Sector Food and Nutrition Strategy (2020-2024)
Malawi Strategy Support Program (IFPRI - CGIAR)
Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition in Malawi (IFPRI 2018)
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