Hunger Drives Acceptance of New Staples in Malawi
Farmers struggling to harvest staple crops of maize and rice are heeding the advice of agricultural experts to diversify their crops.
Photo: Twin and Twin Trading
Malawian farmers prepare to plant groundnuts: The reluctant embrace of crops that would not previously have been considered as food is a capitulation to the strength of hunger, farmers say.
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Malawi: Group Appeals for Aid to Relief Food Shortages
WFP, 12 November 2012
The United States Agency for International Development/Food for Peace (USAID/FFP) has contributed food valued at US$14.1 million (MK 4.23 billion) to the United Nations World Food… 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 »
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Malawi: Country's Food Safety Threatened by Contaminated Groundnuts
Guardian Network, 10 August 2012
Fair trade NGO Twin is calling for urgent action after revealing 60% of groundnuts are not tested for potentially lethal aflatoxins Read more »
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Zimbabwe: How Malawi Fed Its Own People
The Herald, 20 April 2012
President Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi died on April 5 of a heart attack at the age of 78. His countrymen, suffering a massive economic crisis, seem to have declared good riddance.… Read more »
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Malawi: 272,000 Need Food Aid Through Lean Season - Survey
UNIRIN, 12 April 2012
Mary Lyford, a widow and subsistence farmer from Mbande village in southern Malawi's Chikhwawa District, has seven mouths to feed, besides her own, and little idea how she will… Read more »
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The government has turned to a nutrition act and new crops to curb the country's crop failure and high food prices. Read more »
