Environment
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Bokashi manure to help guard climate change—experts
Farmers of Ntchenachena in Rumphi have been advised to use bokashi manure, a type of organic manure, as well as practise irrigation…
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Poor nations can set agenda for sustainable development
The Least Developed Countries (LDCs) can play a critical role in ensuring that the new global sustainability goals—which the international…
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Policies limit climate resilience
Partial narratives that underpin policymaking prevent people in arid regions from fulfilling their potential to provide food and sustain resilient…
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NPL journo elected to climate change regional body
Nation Publications Limited Online Sub-editor Sellina Nkowani has been elected as the Southern Africa regional coordinator for the just launched…
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Africa faces treeless future
A recent Millennium Development Goals (MDG) outlook has put into question Africa’s strides towards ensuring environmental sustainability, saying evidence from…
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Tea research responding to climate change
The effects of climate change have not left out the tea industry, Malawi’s third forex earner. Unreliable rains have drained…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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‘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…
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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…
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The villager who champions conservation
Kachiwala Nkhoma hails from Manjondo Village in Traditional Authority Simulemba in Kasungu. The 45-year-old tobacco farmer relocated from Kasiya Village…
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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…
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Waste dumping haunts Blantyre residents
Mbayani residents in Malawi’s commercial city, Blantyre, are sitting on a time bomb as an oil refining company (name withheld)…
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Reclaiming the lost glory of Chawa Forest
Lke most communities in Malawi, villagers surrounding Chawa Forest Reserve in the area of T/A Simulemba in Kasungu pounced on…
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‘Our land has been grabbed’
Malawi ranks among African countries with rising cases of ‘land grabbing’. How does it happen and what is its scale…
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Why Malawi should sign up for Eiti
Malawi has various minerals. According to Peter Chilumanga, deputy director of mines, different types of minerals are being extracted in…
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