Malawi

How a deadly flood in Malawi may land a British food giant in court
- The Times
- 05 May 2025
The people of Kanseche believe a sugar plantation owned by Associated British Foods was to blame for floodwaters devastating their village and killing seven
Abu Dhabi-based Offset8 and iRise to restore 10 million trees, benefiting 150,000 Malawians
- PR Newswire
- 12 September 2024
Offset8 and iRise’s Climate and Community Transformation Program intends to restore 6,000 hectares of degraded land in Malawi by planting 6 million trees.
LDPI working paper series: International conference on global land grabbing - Bogota, Colombia
- Agrarian Conversations
- 17 April 2024
This LDPI Working Paper Series includes work in progress presented at the 2024 Global Land Grabbing Conference in Bogotá, addressing urgent challenges related to land, water, and natural resource grabbing.
Agriculture Investment Conference set to lure Malawian emerging mega farmers to invest in commercial farming
- Maravi Express
- 07 April 2024
The Agriculture Investment Conference intends to lure Malawian emerging mega farmers to invest in commercial farming by introducing them to various profitable agricultural value chains and the respective off-taker markets.
Malawi: New land laws to allow foreigners purchase land for investments only
- Malawi24
- 06 April 2024
The government says under the amended land laws, foreign nationals will be allowed to buy land in the country for investment purposes only.
Salima Sugar offers 3,500 hectares for mega farms
- Times News
- 17 April 2023
As the Malawi government hunts for land to establish mega farms in the country, Salima Sugar Company has offered 3,500 hectares of its 5,000 hectares that are lying idle towards the cause.
Malawi: Govt releases K500m for mega farms as Engucwini Cooperative longs to benefit from the programme
- Malawi Exclusive
- 20 December 2022
The wait is over the implementation of mega farms following the releasing of K500 million to facilitate the rollout of the farms.
Malawi: Agriculture ministry moves in to establish mega farms
- Nyasa Times
- 30 June 2022
So far, the government has made available 5,000 hectares of land at Chimwamkango estate for value crops and 5,000 hectares of land at Dwambazi estate in Nkhotakota for cattle raising
Malawi: Conforzi to invest K8.2bn in PPP venture
- The Nation
- 27 May 2022
Conforzi Plantation Limited has unveiled plans to invest $10 million in a 5,000 hectare irrigation scheme under Public Private Partnership arrangement to grow high-value crops.
Malawi: Inosselia-Greenbelt Kia Greenhouse Farm exports cherry tomatoes to DR Congo
- Nyasa Times
- 05 May 2022
The 16 ha greenhouse is a joint venture between the Israeli company, Inosselia Agro, and the government of Malawi established in 2019 that supplies vegetables to supermarkets.
Agribusiness in Africa: Investor reveals which areas hold the most potential
- How we made it in Africa
- 09 September 2020
How we made it in Africa speaks to Chris Isaac, chief investment officer at AgDevCo, about the continent’s agribusiness opportunities and the investment lessons he has learnt.
Productive agricultural investments versus “land grabs”
- The Nation
- 21 November 2019
Several agribusiness initiatives have stalled due to a combination of administrative logjams and a hostile political environment that increasingly questions the real motives behind the sudden interest by foreigners in African agriculture.