SURVEYS FOR THE LILONGWE LAND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

Abstract

In 1966 the Government of Malawi requested assistance from the International Development Association to fund a project aimed at preventing soil erosion and to increase agricultural productivity in an area of 500,000 acres, later increased to 1,000,000 acres of the Lilongwe Plain. That same year a mission visited Malawi to conduct a feasibility study and prepare a report with the result that World Bank agreed to fund a development project over twelve years.