How traceability is restructuring Malawi's tobacco industry

Jason Moyer-Lee; Martin Prowse

doi:10.1111/dpr.12096

How traceability is restructuring Malawi's tobacco industry

Jason Moyer-Lee, Martin Prowse

School of Global Development

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Abstract

This article applies a global value-chain framework to the tobacco industry in Malawi, showing how cigarette manufacturers govern the chain and control first-tier suppliers, the leaf merchants. Contract farming offers smallholders the ability to meet manufacturers' compliance and traceability requirements and an opportunity for process and product upgrading, but threatens to exclude poorer growers. The article concludes by highlighting the role leaf merchants can play in diversifying Malawi's economic base and suggests research avenues to understand this rapid institutional evolution better.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	159-174
Number of pages	16
Journal	Development Policy Review
Volume	33
Issue number	2
Early online date	2 Feb 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12096
Publication status	Published - Mar 2015

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