Malawi to Host Agricultural Policy Conference
By Nellie Kapatuka
Lilongwe, Mana: Agriculture Experts will next week hold discussions on how best the country can move from research findings towards their implementation.
This will take place during this year’s Agricultural Policy Conference slated to take place from June 1 to 2, 2021.
Chairperson for the Conference’s Organizing Committee, Executive Director for Mwapata Institute, William Chadza disclosed the development during a media briefing held recently in Lilongwe.
He said the event is aimed at creating a platform for strategic dialogue and evidence based policy guidance and implementation support for agricultural transformation, to provide a platform for disseminating new evidence to stakeholders and increasing uptake of new research findings in policy making processes.
Local and international agricultural think tanks are set to converge in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, next week for the annual agricultural police conference.
The conference will take place from June 1 to 2, 2021. Themed ‘Supporting Agriculture Transformation in Malawi: Beyond Research to Implementation’, the conference is expected to provide a platform to experts to disseminate new evidence to stakeholders, explore partnerships in research, harmonize policy messaging and increase uptake of new research findings in policymaking process.
MwAPATA Institute Acting Executive Director William Chadza (centre) flanked by CISANET national coordinator Pamela Kuwali and NPC Director of Research Dr
The organizers of the conference include the Malawi Agriculture Policy Advancement and Transformation Agenda (MwAPATA Institute), National Planning Commission (NPC), the Ministry of Agriculture and the Centre for Agricultural Research and Development of the Lilongwe University of Agriculture a
The Malawi Agriculture Policy Advancement and Transformation Agenda (MwAPATA Institute), and the Civil Society Agriculture Network (CISANET) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that aims at enhancing the collaboration in pushing for the realization of the country’s development agenda as espoused in the Malawi 2063 document.
Chadza and Kuwali shake limbs after signing the MoU
Chadza and Kuwali signing the memorandum of understanding on Wednesday morning–Photos by Watipaso Mzungu, Nyasa Times
Kuwali explaining how the MoU will enhance their working relationship–Photo by Watipaso Mzungu, Nyasa Times
MwAPATA is a local agriculture research think tank while CISANET is a policy advocacy organisation, working on agriculture and food security policy issues affecting the smallholder farmers and their livelihoods.
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