Digital Applications to Enhance Efficiency

The Malawi Multi-Stakeholder Platform (MSP) project is designed to promote an inclusive value chain approach focusing on assessing access, use, and participation of women, men and youth in the bean seed value chain in Malawi. The MSP is expected to channel bean demands back to producers, seed suppliers and variety developers. Integration of digital tools can facilitate interconnectedness of bean value chain stakeholders. The objective of the MSP digital trade platform is to facilitate transactions among MSP actors through digital tools and to replicate the physical market infrastructure into digital space. Establishing the needs of seed and grain value chain actors, especially for smallholder farmers and women is central to the design and successful deployment of the digital tools. This paper presents results of the digital landscape in Malawi and needs assessments of MSP actors as users of digital tools in Malawi.