- Impact Overview
- Stories & Case Studies
- Lessons Learned
Reach, and what happens
after the training.
Numbers only tell part of the story. Read together they describe a funnel — from farmers ACE can reach, to farmers trained, to farmers actively using structured trade.
Farmer members nationwide
Smallholder farmers trained in structured markets
Farmers traded on the ACE platform
Farmers deposited in warehouses
Most of the gain
reaches the farmer.
Of the value created when a commodity is stored, financed, and sold through the Warehouse Receipt System, the majority stays with the depositor rather than the institutions around them.
15–20%
Post-harvest losses in Malawi1%
Storage loss under the Warehouse Receipt SystemPromoting the WRS also promotes quality storage. This alone could drastically reduce post-harvest losses, contributing to food security and export volumes.
450%
Increase in farmer uptake, 2017–2019650%
Increase in average volume traded by farmer organisationsRecorded after ACE combined market information with targeted training and ongoing support from Rural Marketing Advisors.
Stories and case studies.
Sara Maunda gets four times the price for her groundnuts
Sara had always sold to traders who came to her farm, assuming she was being paid market prices. Price information on her phone showed otherwise.
The first warehouse receipt issued in Malawi
A small trader deposited 14.5MT of maize, immediately asked for finance against it, and turned that into a 40MT aggregation and an 18% profit.
The Chithumba model: access to inputs, repaid in commodity
An access-to-input finance model where farmers repay in kind by depositing commodity at a certified warehouse — with repayment rates above 85% for soya.