2026
Newsletter
2026 AICC Corporate Citizen Newsletter
Every quarter, we step back from data and deliverables to ask a deeper question: what does impact really look like on the ground? This edition invites you into the stories behind the numbers, the communities, the champions and the change-makers driving AICC's mission forward.
2025
Policy Brief
Unlocking the Value of Malawi's Rice Sector: Marketing, Trade and Value Addition — 2025 RDT Policy Brief
Agriculture contributes approximately 22% of Malawi's GDP, 65% of total employment, and over 80% of export earnings. Rice is emerging as a high-potential crop — cultivated by over 150,000 smallholder farmers across Karonga, Nkhotakota, Salima and Zomba, with production of approximately 140,000 metric tons annually.
2024
Annual Report
AICC Annual Report 2023
This report serves as a beacon of our unwavering dedication to fostering sustainable development and social responsibility across the continent. At AICC, we are acutely aware of the pivotal role that corporations play in shaping the future of our continent.
Newsletter
AICC Newsletter on Spotlight Initiative
The Tingathe Spotlight Initiative for women and adolescent girls increases access to GBV response services, livelihood support, vocational skills development, and rural enterprise development for survivors in Dowa, Nkhatabay, Ntchisi and Mzimba districts. Impact stories from the field.
Reflection Brief
Overloaded Agriculture Transformation Agenda in Malawi: Deflated at Take-Off
We contend that the agriculture transformation (AT) agenda in its present form is heavily overloaded and will sadly succeed in inaction and thinness of efforts. If we want AT in Malawi, let the agenda squarely fall in the abode of the same — nutrition, early childhood development, water and sanitation tackled in their respective domains.
Newsletter
Malawi Agro-Dealer Volume II
The second edition of Malawi Agrodealer, dedicated to disseminating interventions and awareness on initiatives being done by AICC through the Agribusiness Acceleration Initiative (AAI). Contains impact stories attesting the successes AAI has accomplished in Malawi.
Impact Stories
Gold in Legumes (Unsampled Success Stories)
The Legumes Development Trust (LDT), whose secretariat is housed within AICC, is a coordinating body aimed at enhancing collaboration in the legume sector. Established in 2013, registered December 2014. This booklet comprises different impact stories of legumes farmers in Malawi.
Reflection Brief
Reflection Brief on Beyond Technology Adoption
Technology adoption has greatly shaped agriculture throughout time. Technology transfer and dissemination in the agriculture sector, specifically to farmers, has been one of the core responsibilities from private sector players through NGOs. What will happen beyond the technology adoption?
Impact Stories
Horticulture is Money (From Their Testimonies)
Small-scale horticulture farmers in Mndolera EPA have adopted the Micro Investment concept comprising drip irrigation technology and improved inputs. AICC introduced this concept in partnership with Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) under the CASH Project, boosting production and productivity. Success stories from the field.
Impact Stories
Empowered Rural Women Success Stories
A selection of stories depicting successes registered through the Women Economic Empowerment (WEE) project, promoting participation of women groundnut farmers through development of women clubs and climate smart technologies in Mchinji and Mzimba District.
Newsletter
Malawi Agro-Dealer (Volume I)
The first ever edition of Malawi Agrodealer for AICC. Dedicated to disseminating interventions and awareness on initiatives through the Agribusiness Acceleration Initiative (AAI) — addressing challenges agrodealers face in Malawi by building capacity of SMEs and enabling rural agribusiness growth.
Reflection Brief
A Reflection Brief on the Adoption of a Technology
For the past years, Malawi has been importing most horticultural produce from neighbouring countries due to low domestic production. Production of horticulture crops solely depends on smallholder farmers with small land holding capacity and limited resources. This brief reflects on technology adoption in this context.
Report
Women Economic Empowerment (WEE) Project Monitoring Report
AICC through UN Women with funding from Standard Bank is implementing the WEE programme in Mchinji and Mzimba Districts, aiming to increase productivity and market access through climate smart agriculture technologies. This monitoring report shows best practices, lessons learnt, challenges and milestones.
Reflection Brief
Truly 'At the Verge': The Future of Warehouse Receipt System in Malawi
A painful admission from a decade-long advocate of the Warehouse Receipt System (WRS) in Malawi that the system is at the verge of collapsing. As chief advocates for 10 years, faced with evidence in our possession, we opted for this honest admission to save time and lobby for viable alternatives.
2020
Reflection Brief
2020 Cotton Marketing Illusion and Realities
Cotton is one of Malawi's major agro-based foreign exchange earners. However, over the past decade, production has characterised a steady decrease to as low as 10,000 Mt in 2018/19. AICC noted the urgency of a multi-stakeholder dialogue platform for cotton stakeholders to design innovative solutions.
2018
Newsletter
AICC April–July 2018 Newsletter
Greetings and warm welcome to yet another year of Corporate Citizenship. This is our first issue in the 2018/19 year. Our last publication was in 2017 and we are a proud team committed to continuing this publication to disseminate news from our various programmes and projects.
2017
Newsletter
AICC December 2017 Newsletter
Welcome to the last edition for the year 2017 and the last but one edition for the 2017/2018 financial quarter. This edition focuses on major activities that AICC has undertaken and highlights some of the successes registered in the quarter.