Structured Trade for Better Livelihoods: ACE Trust Strategic Plan 2021–2026

The five-year strategic plan setting out ACE Trust’s objectives, target groups, and four Focus Areas.

Paul Cleary and Kristian Schach Møller

ACE Rural Strategy 2020

The rural strategy that preceded the 2021–2026 plan, and the source of many of its learnings.

ACE Retrospective 2005–2020

A journey through structured trade: from an idea to a licensed agricultural commodity exchange.

Kristian Schach Møller, with Paul Cleary and Pete Wythe

ACE in Focus: Building Structured Agricultural Trade in Malawi

An account of how structured agricultural trade has been built in Malawi.

Kristian Schach Møller

A Case Study of the Chithumba Model

A detailed study of the access-to-input finance model where farmers repay in commodity.

Anne-Cécile Delwaide and Luke Coulson

Commodity exchanges and warehouse receipts in Malawi: current status and their implications

IFPRI’s assessment of the commodity exchange landscape in Malawi, including industry support for ACE.

International Food Policy Research Institute

The impact of market price information on smallholder sales

Findings from the 2019 marketing season study across Mchinji, Ntchisi, Dowa and Kasungu.

International Food Policy Research Institute

ACE Marketing School (AMS)

A three-day training for thirty members of a partner farmer organisation.

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AMS for Leaders

The Marketing School curriculum adapted for farmer organisation leadership.

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MSME Structured Trade Training Module

Structured trade training for micro, small and medium enterprises.

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Warehouse Marketing and Management Committee Training Programme

Training for the committees running warehouses on behalf of farmer organisations.

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Farmer Business School (FBS)

GIZ’s Farmer Business School curriculum, now part of the ACE training suite.

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