{"id":36780,"date":"2022-12-16T20:37:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T20:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?p=36780"},"modified":"2022-12-16T07:29:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T07:29:53","slug":"world-bank-report-faults-new-land-laws-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/world-bank-report-faults-new-land-laws-2","title":{"rendered":"World Bank report faults new land laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>The latest World Bank Malawi Economic Monitor (Mem) has said the Land Amendment Bill passed by Parliament in March this year could deter investors from actively participating in the flagship mega farms project.<\/p>\n<p>But Principal Secretary for Lands Davie Chilonga Wednesday disagreed with the concerns raised in the Mem. The 16th Mem, titled \u2018Planning Beyond the Next Harvest: Advancing Economic Stability and Agricultural Commercialisation\u2019, was unveiled in Lilongwe on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Mem says the government\u2019s commitment to large-scale commercialised agriculture has not been reflected in recent policy initiatives. \u201cThe Land Amendment Bill, passed in March 2022, is seen by many producers as introducing additional obstacles to operating a commercial farm, without significantly improving the security of land tenure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis could also impact the government\u2019s plans to establish mega farms i.e. government-owned but privately-run farms of at least 5,000 ha [hectares] with a high degree of mechanisation and value addition,\u201d the bank says.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview Wednesday, Secretary for Lands Chilonga said it is sad to note that the authors of the report may have misleading understanding of the changes in the law whose enactment is very timely.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that such allegations are not true since such investments did not even happen between 1965 and 2022. According to Chilonga, genuine investments have space provided for in the cited laws when using inclusive models.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor example, the current land laws are supporting creation of mega farms like Kama in Chikwawa under Agriculture Commercialisation Project and over 15 irrigation blocks ranging from 500 to over 1,000 hectares under Shire Valley Transformation Programme that will be commercially run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernment is also working on Thola, Ilora, Ngosi Irrigation in Karonga under Green Belt Authority, which will cover 10,000 hectares and many other farms to be commercially run,\u201d Chilonga said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. The latest World Bank Malawi Economic Monitor (Mem) has said the Land Amendment Bill passed by Parliament in March this year could deter investors from actively participating in the flagship mega farms project. But Principal Secretary for Lands Davie Chilonga Wednesday disagreed with the concerns raised in the Mem. The 16th Mem, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":36779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12,410],"tags":[233,371,5576,234,5560,537],"class_list":["post-36780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-davie-chilonga","tag-malawi","tag-malawi-economic-monitor","tag-world-bank"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>World Bank report faults new land laws - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The latest World Bank Malawi Economic Monitor (Mem) has said the Land Amendment Bill passed by Parliament in March this ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/world-bank-report-faults-new-land-laws-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"World Bank report faults new land laws\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The latest World Bank Malawi Economic Monitor (Mem) has said the Land Amendment Bill passed by Parliament in March this ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/world-bank-report-faults-new-land-laws-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-16T20:37:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671163143.00.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"556\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/world-bank-report-faults-new-land-laws-2#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/world-bank-report-faults-new-land-laws-2\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"World Bank report faults new land laws\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-16T20:37:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/world-bank-report-faults-new-land-laws-2\"},\"wordCount\":309,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/world-bank-report-faults-new-land-laws-2#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671163143.00.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Davie Chilonga\",\"Malawi\",\"Malawi Economic Monitor\",\"world bank\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/world-bank-report-faults-new-land-laws-2#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/world-bank-report-faults-new-land-laws-2\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/world-bank-report-faults-new-land-laws-2\",\"name\":\"World Bank report faults new land laws - 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