Malawi - Agricultural Infrastructure and Youth in Agribusiness Project

The Malawi Agricultural Infrastructure and Youth in Agribusiness Project (AIYAP) is designed as a stand-alone investment project whose main objective is to support the development of irrigation infrastructure (civil works) in order to facilitate the development of high value food-crop production, agricultural value chains along with agribusiness skills for youths and capacity building activities. It involves deploying agricultural infrastructure to support and facilitate efforts to address the dual problem of food insecurity and the high rate of youth unemployment in Malawi. The proposed interventions will implement two large-scale irrigation schemes in Linga (Nkhata-Bay) and Dwambazi respectively, covering a total area of 1 945 hectares targeting 10,000 beneficiaries with special emphasis on youths (approximately 50% of the beneficiaries). The project is to use irrigation infrastructure as an enabler to scale up production of maize, rice, sugar and horticultural products, as well as value chains in project areas in particular, and Malawi in general.