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Development
Would a policy on disaster preparedness help?
- Category: Development
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- Written by ephraim nyondo
Malawi had no legal and institutional framework for disaster management before the 1991 Phalombe flash floods which killed scores of people, farm animals and damaged property and crops.
The gold that is a girl child
- Category: Development
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- Written by ephraim nyondo
In 2011, the United Nations declared October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child. Being launched under the theme: Ending Child Marriage, Ephraim Nyondo shows how protecting a girl child from early marriage can be Malawi’s hidden gold.
Malawi prepared for disasters?
- Category: Development
- Published Date
- Written by John Kasalika
How ready and empowered are communities in Malawi to respond when natural disasters befall them? Ephraim Nyondo finds out.
Africa soils have least fertility
- Category: Development
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- Written by Fatsani Gunya
Experts from global agriculture bodies have said the newly launched African Fertiliser and Agribusiness Partnership (Afap) stands to promote agricultural productivity in Africa through the use of sufficient fertilisers to help heal its nutrient- depleted soils.
It’s money or poor health on Lake Chilwa
- Category: Development
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- Written by Josephine Chinele
Yamikani Kula of Mwaluka Village, Traditional Authority Kuntumanje in Zomba has known no other means of earning a living other than fishing.
Malawi and its unbroken cycle of hunger
- Category: Development
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- Written by ephraim nyondo
Over the past few years, Malawi Government has invested billions of kwacha in the Farm Input Subsidy (Fisp) in an effort to achieve food security both at national and household level.
Malawi farmers reap from warehouse receipt system
- Category: Development
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- Written by Paida Mpaso
As a farmer, all George Notisi wants is assurance that his produce will not only find market but also that the price will be enough to cater for the cost of production.
Tales of hunger
- Category: Development
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- Written by ephraim nyondo
The July 2012 Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Committee (Mvac) assessment report indicated that 1.6 million people in rural areas (11 percent of the total population) will be food insecure, as such; require food assistance from August 2012 to March 2013. Who are these people and what is the scale of their plight? Ephraim Nyondo talked to some of them.
Defying disability with hard work
- Category: Development
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- Written by Solomon Manda
Kennedy George is not an ordinary man. His legs are shrivelled and he relies on his hands to move around but that hasn’t stopped him from believing in himself.
When cities cannot accommodate growth
- Category: Development
- Published Date
- Written by GEORGE MHANGO
It has been 30 years since Thomas Mwakabango came to town. He came in the hope of securing a better life. But that, too, has been elusive. Currently, he lives in a shanty area in Blantyre’s Machinjiri Township.
