Tell climate change stories in simplest manner

Uganda’s Minister of Water and Environment Flavia Nabugene Munamba has urged Africa journalists to report in a simplest manner the impact climate change has brought within on the continent.

Conservation agriculture to check climate change

As the harvesting season draws close, farmers have been urged to consider conservation agriculture in times of high fertiliser costs and effects of climate change.

Blantyre Agricultural Development Division (Bladd) chief land resources officer Thomas Chigoo said this when land resource officers from the division’s seven districts were trained in conservation agriculture and climate change at the Bvumbwe Research Station in Thyolo last week.

Media vital to climate change fight

Partial narratives that underpin policymaking prevent people in arid regions from fulfilling their potential to provide food and sustain resilient livelihoods in a changing climate.

‘Address sanitation for open defecation free Malawi’

Malawi’s Ministry of Water Development and Irrigation has emphasised the need for government and other relevant stakeholders to address poor sanitation to achieve an Open Defecation Free (OF) Malawi come 2015.

In 2010, Malawi developed an ODF Malawi 2015 Strategy to ensure complete elimination of open defecation in Malawi by 2015.

Chikhwawa winning with conservation agriculture

Some districts in Malawi have been known to be food secure in one year, only to fall into the club of food insecurity the next. But Chikhwawa is not one such district. Its food security pendulum does not oscillate.

Every year, Chikhwawa in the lower Shire is always on the list of districts with cases of food shortages. What could be the problem with the district?

Tracking climate change adaptation and development

New systems for tracking the social impacts of efforts to adapt to climate change could soon be in place in Africa and South Asia.

Report sheds light on need for accountability in Africa land deals

People who feel wronged by large-scale land deals in Africa are taking a variety of steps to seek justice, according to new research that examines the accountability of public authorities that preside over such deals and asks whether legal empowerment offers citizens scope to expect fairer outcomes.

The villager who champions conservation

Kachiwala Nkhoma hails from Manjondo Village in Traditional Authority Simulemba in Kasungu.

Report sheds light on need for accountability in Africa land deals

People who feel wronged by large-scale land deals in Africa are taking a variety of steps to seek justice, according to new research that examines the accountability of public authorities that preside over such deals and asks whether legal empowerment offers citizens scope to expect fairer outcomes.

Lessons from Malawi’s Chimdenga Forest Block

Chimdenga Forest Block in the eastern Malawi district of Machinga stands out in protecting the environment against severe degradation, thanks to a forest co-management arrangement with community members.