A women and youth-led sunflower oil initiative, Wangwiro Sunflower Cooking Oil, is creating opportunities through local farming, oil production and employment, with ambitions to become a nationwide distributor of Malawian-made cooking oil by 2030. The initiative began in September 2025…
The Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) is set to host its fourth annual Cultural and Research Innovation Festival from September 10 to 12, 2026. The three-day event will take place at the university’s Ndata Campus in Thyolo. Lead…
In the quiet island setting of Likoma, an emerging enterprise is turning locally available fruits into wines, juices and jams, demonstrating how innovation and agro-processing can create new opportunities for smallholder farmers and young people in Malawi. Fuko Winery Enterprise,…
While many university students depend entirely on family support, 20-year-old Kelvin Makambwe has chosen a different path by running a dishwashing liquid manufacturing business alongside his studies at Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR). Makambwe, a second-year Development…
A Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) graduate, Alinafe Mtukula is putting knowledge he obtained from lecture room into practice after he opened a company that specialises in Castor oil production. Mtukula, who graduated with a Bachelor of Arts…
A group of young innovators operating under the name Zuh Metal Warrior at Chirimba Market in Blantyre has developed an environmentally friendly cooking stove that functions similarly to an electric cooker but is powered by used oil instead of electricity.…
Amid continued rise in prices of cooking oil on the local market, a Mchinji-based cooperative, Mikonga Cooperative is making cooking oil more affordable and accessible by processing it locally. The cooperative is producing the cooking oil at its factory based…
The COMESA Federation of Women in Business (COMFWB)-Malawi chapter has launched a sunflower oil processing plant to process sunflower into cooking oil. The plant, located in Nsambo, Lilongwe will also help members under the federation to acquire knowledge on how…
A youth-run cooking oil processing company, Tawonga Cooking Oil Processors is on course to dominate the local cooking market through the production of high-quality cooking oil made from sunflower and soybean. Launched in 2022, the company, based at Embangweni in…
A Zomba-based youth-led company, Domasi Food Enterprise is making a mark by turning indigenous fruits into tasty juices. The company produces juice using raw materials such as Bwemba (Tamarindus Indica) and Malambe (Baobab) which is currently being sold on the…