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Malawi: Focus Shifts to Nutrition, New Crops to Tackle Food Crisis
Guardian Network, 20 September 2012
A nutrition act and new crops are at the centre of the Malawi government's latest attempts to overcome the effects of annual food shortages that affect more than 10% of the… Read more »
Malawi to Tackle Food Crisis
The government has turned to a nutrition act and new crops to curb the country's crop failure and high food prices.
File photo of refugees at Dzaleka camp in Malawi waiting in line to collect their monthly food rations which were cut by half in March 2012 due to a funding shortfall
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Malawi: Without Land Reform, Small Farmers Become 'Trespassers'
UNIRIN, 26 April 2012
Dorothy Dyton, her husband and seven children used to make a living farming just over a hectare near the town of Bangula in southern Malawi's Chikhwawa District. Read more »
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Malawi: Need for Food Aid Outpaces Response
UNIRIN, 30 August 2012
Prolonged dry spells followed by poor harvests in Malawi's maize-growing central and southern regions have created widespread food shortages, yet it has taken months to fully… Read more »
InFocus
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The government has suspended all maize exports, to help build national reserves, in the face of a looming grain shortage. Read more »
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While the move to devalue the currency may boost trade, the country's poor are bearing the brunt of even higher food and energy costs. Read more »
