The Groundnuts Fairtrade Arrangement and its Spillover Effects on Agricultural Commercialisation and Household Welfare Outcomes: Empirical Evidence from Central Malawi || APRA Working Paper 40

This working paper examines the Fairtrade groundnut arrangement - when the Mchinji Area Small Farmers Association (MASFA) sold its groundnuts through the National Association of Smallholder Farmers of Malawi (NASFAM) from 2007 to 2011. The authors test a unique panel data set of smallholder farmers to determine whether there are any spillover effects on small-scale agricultural commercialisation and its impact on household welfare for smallholder farmers that were not part of the Fairtrade arrangement in Mchinji District.