Development

Farmers improve production with WFP’s P4P

Mwandama Farmer Organisation (FO) in Zomba started under the Millennium Village Project (MVP) which provided agricultural support in 2005. In…

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Keeping children away from streets with goats

It has been over 10 years since Patuma Yasini made a daring but dangerous decision to escape her aunt’s brutal…

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Journey to quench Zomba’s thirst

In the early 1990s, concern over a special species of butterflies found on Zomba Mountain nearly denied the people of…

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Reversing lost soil fertility

Should Malawi scale up its use of inorganic fertilisers or it should pull up its efforts on conservation agriculture? Experts…

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Setting the pace for development

Jabiri Sawezi of Kakopa Village, Senior Chief Malengachanzi in Nkhotakota, is a rare person who does not believe in waiting…

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Smooth road to primary school

Amidu Sipiliyano is only three years old. However, listening to him say a prayer in English, one may think he…

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From a hospital dream to a maize farm

As vandals continue to wreck the ruined relics of what could have been Gadaffi Hospital in Blantyre and also turning…

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Are GMOs here to stay?

Genetically modified organisms (GMOS) have attracted mixed reactions across the world. While some countries have embraced them, such as the…

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Children in adults’ rites

When the first HIV infection was discovered nearly 30 years ago, chinamwali was sacred—too good for seven-year-olds. Yao adolescents used…

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Any remedies for CDF?

Will Constituency Development Fund (CDF) ever be effective? Malawians should be pardoned for thinking: “Why should we care”. In 2012,…

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