Malawi

Malawi remains one of the poorest countries in the world. Around 70% of the population live below the international poverty line of US$1.90 per day, and 89% of Malawi’s workforce are employed in the informal economy. In 2018 the population of Malawi was 17.55 million. It is a small landlocked country sharing borders with Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania. Malawi is 118,484 km2 in extent, of which 29,600 km2 is water. Despite its relatively small surface area, Lake Malawi is the fifth largest lake in the world by volume.

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9,428,000 ha

44.7

1,163.3 USD

18,143,315

16.9 %

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59.9 %

70.9 %

845,000 ha

2.4 %

258,050 ha

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Rights activists want changes in land laws to benefit Malawians

8 March 2022

grouping called Land Justice Consortium has vowed to ensure that land law amendments favor the marginalized, saying there is need to liberate the country from land colonization since most of the arable and prime land is “in the wrong hands”. The grouping comprises organizations such as Land…

Land tenure continues to be major objective of development agenda

20 October 2021

With a total of 65 participants (37% women) from 14 countries (Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Pakistan, Sudan and Uganda) the 10th and last Capitalization Meeting of the EU Land Governance Transversal Project, was virtually…

Ambitious $104 million program targets land degradation in Africa and Central Asian countries

16 June 2021

Main photo: Farmers at a FAO anti-desertification project in Burkina Faso, one of 11 countries targeted by the Global Environment Fund Initiative The global launch of a $104 million initiative signals an ambitious effort by a range of partners to safeguard drylands in the context of climate change,…

Malawi

projects

Supporting Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests

Value: $15,281,096.00

Donors: Government of Belgium

Support the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure in Malawi

Value: $50,000.00

Donors: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)

Women’s Land Rights for Inclusive Development and Growth in Africa

Value: $2,700,000.00

Donors: European Union

Strengthening Land Governance System for Smallholder Farmers in Malawi

Value: $3,340,000.00

Donors: European Union

Social and Economic Empowerment of Smallholder Producers in Rural Malawi

Value: $580,000.00

Donors: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

African Forest Forum

Value: $9,200,000.00

Donors: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

About 85% of the population live in rural areas and depend on small scale agricultural production which is increasingly vulnerable to climate shocks.

Groundbreakers: Women overcome bias and lead sustainable use of land and resources

8 March 2022

In many countries men control who gets to use, own, and make decisions about land. “We used to stay in a corner, quiet. If someone came to take our land or exploit our forests, we did not have the courage to try to stop them.” These words from a woman in Mecoburi, Mozambique reflect how women…

Webinar on COVID-19 and Tenure Security

9th Capitalization Meeting of the EU Land Governance Programme 3 NOVEMBER 2020, 10.00 – 11.30 CET (9.00 – 10.30 GMT) Project implementation in all countries and at the transversal level have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Anecdotal evidence from many countries suggest that the pandemic…