Our work
Our work: Malawi
Our purpose is to help African food processors grow. Here is a selection of our work: who supported it, what we did and what changed.
In Malawi we help small food processors become safe, commercially sustainable businesses. Through IMAGRI, the Ireland Malawi Agri-Food Systems Programme, we lead enterprise development and food safety support. Our Enterprise Food Safety Academy turns Malawi Standard MS 21 and Codex principles into step-by-step actions for processors: 21 food enterprises have been trained and 15 have completed structured gap audits and coaching. We also modelled women-led fish farming across eight districts, finding viable routes from subsistence ponds to commercial farming and processing. With GIZ we tested business models for young people in beekeeping and pay-as-you-go solar irrigation.
Safer food in Malawi (IMAGRI)
20companies on personalised food safety pathways since May 2026
Food safety training, audits and coaching for small processors in Malawi, and the design of a follow-on support programme.
Rural Youth Employment Accelerator
10+viable agri-business models for young people
Business models that young people can run in agri-food value chains, developed with GIZ in four countries.
Women-led fish farming businesses
161stakeholders engaged across eight districts
A study of how women fish farmers in Malawi can move from subsistence ponds to profitable businesses.
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