Malawi2020: Vulnerability and Risk Assessment in the tea industry
Publication date
2016-10-13Keywords
AgricultureLivelihoods
Climate change adaptation
Corporate responsibility
Economic growth
Enterprise
Fair trade
Food production
Labour standards
Programme managementSmallholder agricultureTrade policyWomen farmers
Country
MalawiMetadata
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OxfamDocument type
Research reportDescription
In June 2016, Oxfam conducted a Vulnerability and Risk Assessment (VRA) exercise in Mulanje, Southern Malawi, in the context of the Malawi2020 Tea Revitalization Programme (Malawi2020). This programme aims to achieve a competitive, profitable tea industry that can provide living wages and incomes for its workers by 2020. The VRA sought to address the key hazards and issues affecting people and stakeholders in the tea-growing landscape of Southern Malawi, bringing together a wide range of stakeholders such as national government representatives, estate managers, union delegates and unskilled tea industry workers. It analysed the main issues facing the tea industry and the people involved in it, then drafted suggestions to reduce the risks they face and provide further inputs into the Malawi2020 Roadmap.
