[{"bbox": [157, 151, 1074, 285], "category": "Text", "text": "commercialisation of agriculture and fisheries and specific objective 2, enhancing environmental sustainability. It will cover the expected results under SO 1 referring to improved access to and sustainable use of resources, accelerated economic transformation and improved nutritional status, as well as the expected results 1.2.1 regarding conservation and sustainable management and use of natural resources and 1.2.3 regarding the country's capacity to cope with climate change."}, {"bbox": [157, 294, 1074, 510], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action is in line with Malawi 2063¹ priority area (pillar 1) of agricultural productivity and commercialisation and the enablers of environmental sustainability and private sector dynamism. The Action will contribute to some of the game changers identified by Malawi 2063 to boost agricultural commercialisation, including land titling, and scaling up of vibrant cooperatives for easing access to markets, financing, extension services and inputs supply. With regard to environmental sustainability, the Action will focus on the game changer of agroforestry and reforestation. It will also align with the priorities of ecosystem conservation and environmental management as well as environment and climate change financing."}, {"bbox": [157, 519, 1074, 681], "category": "Text", "text": "This Action is aligned with the European Green Deal, including with the Farm to Fork Strategy and the biodiversity strategy of the European Commission and it will contribute to SDG 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 13 and 15. Its activities will contribute to climate change adaptation and mitigation in Malawi, as well as biological diversity. The Action will contribute to remove barriers to the full participation of women in agricultural and economic activities, and improve their nutritional status, hence contributing to gender equality and the Gender Action Plan III (2021-2025)."}, {"bbox": [157, 691, 1074, 879], "category": "Text", "text": "This Action will consolidate the EU's role as Malawi's trusted partner in agriculture, displaying consistency with the EU's working priorities in a continuum with EDF interventions. Through giving more prominence to the work on natural resources, the EU will expand the range of its institutional interlocutors and support policy discussions around the multifaceted concept of food systems. The Action will build on past and ongoing EU funded programmes, unlocking their growth potential. The action will follow a territorial approach, with districts and communities in the frontline to define their needs and actions, particularly for the \"Greening\" component."}, {"bbox": [157, 889, 1074, 1210], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action is a significant component of the Team Europe Initiative (TEI) \"Green Growth for Malawi\". Overall this TEI aims at equitable green economic growth in Malawi, focussing in particular on preservation and regeneration of the natural resource base, on the development of territorially relevant food systems and on improving the nutritional status, targeting especially girls and young women. The TEI, to achieve these objectives, develops pillars of action of natural resource management and ecosystems preservation, value chain development, access to finance, technical and vocational training, renewable energy for productive use, homegrown school meals and nutrition interventions. This action contributes to all its specific objectives and the majority of its pillars of action (decentralised natural resource management and ecosystems preservation, value chain development, finance for agribusiness and community based nutrition). Cooperation of Germany, Ireland, Flanders (Belgium) and the European Investment Bank will also be contributing to the different components of the TEI."}, {"bbox": [147, 1249, 383, 1281], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 2 RATIONALE"}, {"bbox": [147, 1314, 294, 1342], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 2.1 Context"}, {"bbox": [157, 1358, 1074, 1520], "category": "Text", "text": "Malawi's development has stagnated for the past 20 years, with only minimal and precarious improvements in health and education indicators but going backwards on poverty and growth. The High Court annulled the 2019 presidential elections due to a high number of irregularities, and the re-run in June 2020 saw the opposition take over. The new administration has so far shown commitment to the rule of law and human rights, and anti-corruption. It also aims at lifting off the country's development, though it remains hesitant to invest its political capital in overhauling"}, {"bbox": [147, 1564, 1082, 1612], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹ Malawi 2063, Malawi's Vision, An Inclusively Wealthy and Self-reliant Nation, National Planning Commission, 2021."}, {"bbox": [977, 1681, 1081, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 4 of 24"}]