For the last two years, Jakina Lameki, who lives in the town of Bangula in Malawi's southernmost district of Nsanje, has experienced the catastrophic impact that climate change is having on her (.)
Despite costing higher for the average local consumer, retail maize prices in the country are lower than in neighbouring countries, a situation analysts fear could fuel informal exports and affect supply on the domestic market. Data compiled by the International Food Policy Research Institute (Ifpri) shows that low prices maize prices mainly on account of
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Despite government borrowing trillions to finance the agriculture sector in the past five decades, experts say growth does not match the huge investments. A public debt status report the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs presented in Parliament in 2017 says between 1964 and June 2017 government borrowed about $6 billion (about K6 trillion) from
More than 600 people have been killed by Cyclone Freddy, which washed away homes, roads and crops in Southern Malawi last month. Grace Joseph’s maize looked good until the longest-lasting cyclone struck again with more devastating effect than its first touchdown in February. About 659 000 people have been displaced in the 13 districts. “As