This report draws its background from the First Panorama Report which looked at the reference
situation for the food and agricultural statistics in Malawi, overview of user needs for food and
agriculture statistics and explained the expectations from CountrySTAT. Furthermore, the report
discussed the outputs, data sources, metadata of the food and agriculture statistics. In conclusion
it also highlighted important factors for the success of the CountrySTAT. It draws a lot of
insights from the key stakeholders involved in food and agriculture statistics, and from a number
of agricultural statistical and strategic plans reports coming from different sources such as the
National Statistical Office, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Department of
Climate Change and Meteorological Services. Hence this second panorama report is a
continuation of the first report.
This report will be used to provide data and metadata which would be used for uploading more
data and metadata on the CountrySTAT platform. The report will focus on institutional
framework, discuss outputs and metadata, provide an overview of the regional integration, and
finally it will also explain the data access and use in terms of accessibility and relevance to
private and public decision makers.