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Other Significant Achievements-The Agricultural Policy Research Unit has been involved in the development of the Malawi Agricultural Sector Investment ProgrammeMASIP which is aimed at coordinating and prioritizing the efforts and the investment funding of all stakeholders, public and private sector, in the agricultural sector. The Unit has often-times also worked with or been asked to be part of the review team or working committee for the VISION 2020 Project, Agricultural Information System, United Nations Task Force on Food Security,Poverty Monitoring System among others. go top
Recently, the Agricultural Policy Research Unit has been earmarked by the European Union to house the Crop Estimates and Price Monitoring project on a continuous basis (i.e. establishing a data bank for crop estimates and price monitoring) This development is likely to complement well with the proposed establishment of the Industrial Data bank and Environmental monitoring.
The Unit also held an international symposium on promotion of cassava with respect to production and processing of various industrial cassava products in industries.The Symposium was funded by USAID and carried out in conjunction with the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation and the Southern Africa Root Research Network (SARRNET). The symposium drew participants from the international and local community with an interest in industrial related technology development for cassava production and processing
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