CARD's Mandate


  1. The Centre is mandated to offer local and international consulting services in planning, economics, engineering, architecture and management.
  2. CARD has combined their resources to provide independent consulting services with overseas researchers. CARD has the requisite experience working with reputable international (research) organizations such as IFPRI (USA), CIFOR (Indonesia/Zimbabwe), University of Greenwich and Natural Resources Institute (United Kingdom), Michigan State University and Clark University (USA).
  3. CARD has combined their resources to provide independent consulting services with overseas researchers. CARD has the requisite experience working with reputable international (research) organizations such as IFPRI (USA), CIFOR (Indonesia/Zimbabwe), University of Greenwich and Natural Resources Institute (United Kingdom), Michigan State University and Clark University (USA).
  4. Our impartiality is of vital importance to our clients and is their guarantee of receiving independent and neutral professional advice.
  5. Our staff covers a wide range of development and engineering disciplines, with a high proportion of economists in addition to engineers, natural and social scientists from Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) faculties, represents a working environment that is truly multi-disciplinary.

CARD activities are undertaken by highly motivated, dedicated and committed staff to contribute to the generation of knowledge and information needed for designing agricultural and natural resource interventions to lift people out of poverty. It is also committed to the transfer on knowledge to households on existing opportunities for increased access to output and input markets, credit and other vital information generated through research.