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This study uses nationally representative data on smallholder farmers in Malawi collected between 2009 and 2019, along with time series data on tobacco prices to consider the profitability of Malawian tobacco and potential alternative crops such as groundnuts, soybeans, pigeon pea and maize. We find that that the percentage of smallholder farmers growing tobacco declined …

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The Government of Malawi has committed to transform agricultural production through large-scale farming in the form of “mega-farms” that will be centers of large-scale production and serve as an anchor for other farmers in surrounding communities by attracting private markets for inputs and outputs. The Malawi 2063 (MW2063) Agenda, which describes what the government aspires …

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Groundnut is one of the crops considered important for Malawian agriculture. Its production promotes crop diversification beyond maize as the main food crop and tobacco as the main commercial crop to reduce exposure to external shocks such as shifts in global demand. The crop is a source of food and nutrition, it improves soil health …

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