Report on MFS national review and planning meeting, Malawi

The One CGIAR initiative on Mixed Farming Systems (MFS) entered its 1st year after its official inception in Malawi. Various partners that included the National Agricultural Research and Extension Systems (NARS), and the CGIAR researchers converged in Lilongwe, Malawi, to among other things; share, learn, assess progress, achievements, challenges, gaps, and opportunities, and to develop a strategy on system integration, gender, and social equity across work packages, research sites, and disciplines to support MFS outcomes and deliverables.
The meeting also revised work plans for 2024 with research objectives and strategies to address systems integration as part of the research approach and protocols.
The three-day meeting was from the 30th October to 1st November 2023.