Promoting participation in oilseed value chains in Malawi: Who and where to target

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Markets
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.contributor.donorForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office, United Kingdomen
cg.contributor.donorGovernment of Flandersen
cg.coverage.countryMalawi
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2MW
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionSub-saharan Africa
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Africa
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierTodd Benson: 0000-0001-7919-778X
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134078en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Malawi Strategy Support Program
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.number39en
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorBenson, Todden
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-22T12:16:09Zen
dc.date.available2024-05-22T12:16:09Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/143701
dc.titlePromoting participation in oilseed value chains in Malawi: Who and where to targeten
dcterms.abstractBy increasing their production for the market and realizing greater incomes, smallholder farming households can significantly accelerate local agricultural and rural economic development. The increased income of these commercially oriented farmers increases their demand for the goods, services, and labor that can be supplied by other, often poorer, households in their community, expanding local non-farm employment opportunities and raising incomes for those other households. Appropriately targeting agricultural development efforts towards commercially oriented farming households has important second-round economic development benefits in their communities, effects which cannot be achieved without properly identifying such households. In this Policy Note, we examine both household and spatial factors that may drive participation by smallholder farming households in oilseed value chains, focusing on those for groundnut, soyabean, and sunflower. Groundnut has been an important secondary crop within many smallholder farming systems across Malawi for several generations, used both for own consumption within the household and for sale. Soyabean and sunflower are more recent introductions and are primarily grown for commercial sale by both smallholders and commercial farmers. Annual production and yield levels for these crops in recent years are shown in Table 1.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBenson, Todd. 2020. Promoting participation in oilseed value chains in Malawi: Who and where to target. MaSSP Policy Note 39. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134078.en
dcterms.extent10 p.en
dcterms.isPartOfMaSSP Policy Noteen
dcterms.issued2020-10-01
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134154en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/134078en
dcterms.subjectvalue chainsen
dcterms.subjectproductionen
dcterms.subjectagroecologyen
dcterms.subjectoilseedsen
dcterms.subjectsmallholdersen
dcterms.typeBrief

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