Ag Diversification Activity in Malawi
Implementing partner
Palladium
PIs
Rick Brandenburg
Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University
Rick_Brandenburg@ncsu.edu
Boris Bravo-Ureta
Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of Connecticut
boris.bravoureta@uconn.edu
Dave Hoisington
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Universtiy of Georgia
davehois@uga.edu
Malawi Agricultural Diversification
Country focus: Malawi
Project length: 4 years
Budget: $720,000
The Ag Diversification Activity (called AgDiv for short) is a USAID initiative to empower farmers to grow more peanut, soy and orange-fleshed sweet potato, three nutritious foods that promise to improve the diets of Malawians while giving farmers more options.
Malawi – a landlocked country of 18 million people in southern Africa – depends on agriculture as its main industry. Most people grow at least some of their own food, and peanuts – or groundnuts as they are called in Africa – already are part of the traditional diet.
But making peanut production more efficient and improving the quality of the crop benefits both the consumer and the farmer.
