The landlocked country of Malawi, in southeast Africa, is home to just 19.1 million people. According to the U.N., more than 2.8 million of these people—nearly 15 percent of the entire ...
New analysis suggests that Malawi's food security crisis, which threatens more than three million people, may well be a case of famine in a land of potential plenty. Malawi's agricultural economy, ...
Farming just one kind of crop in a field at a time, and using a lot of chemicals, poses a risk to both people and nature. This simplified intensive agriculture often goes hand in hand with increased ...
Malawi’s increasingly unpredictable rainfall and higher than usual temperatures are causing problems for smallholder farmers. Soil erosion has increased, causing soil fertility and water availability ...
BLANTYRE, July 28 (Reuters) - Malawi's output of maize, its staple grain, fell 5.6% in the 2022/23 farming season because of a shortage of fertiliser and extreme weather conditions that damaged crops, ...
BLANTYRE - Malawi's President Peter Mutharika declared a national disaster after a severe drought ravaged the southern African nation and appealed for 1.2 million tonnes of maize to plug a looming ...
ROME, Jan. 17, 2012 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the European Commission announced a new $5.3 million project aimed at helping Malawi, Vietnam and Zambia ...
A research field of industrial hemp at Chitedze research station in Malawi capital Lilongwe. Farmers say it failed to yield expected results. [VOA Malawi's parliament is considering legislation to ...
Fish farmed in these ponds help keep the children of Zomba West healthy This seems an unlikely place to go fishing for your dinner. The dusty scrublands of Zomba West have been brittle dry since April ...