Enriching African soils key to boosting crop yields
SCIDEV.NET | 10 Apr 2012
The key to tackling hunger in Africa is enriching its soil, according to a story in Nature. The big debate is how to do it.
 Kenya | Malawi | Niger | Agriculture | Farming Practices

Malawi: Farmers Ease Climate Woes With Fertiliser Trees
AllAfrica.com | 12 Jan 2012
AlertNet (London)-Smallholder farmers struggling with climate change in this southeast African nation are turning to trees to help their crops grow.
 Malawi | Agriculture | Climate Change Adaptation | Farming Practices

Malawian Cotton Farmers Ecstatic Over High Prices
ips.org | 04 Apr 2011
An ardent listener to the radio, small-scale cotton farmer Mercy Kaduya from Chikhwawa in Nsanje in southern Malawi has just heard an item during the international news segment that cotton prices have hit a record high on the international market. I am very excited. I am looking forward to selling my cotton produce this year. I am also patting myself on the back for not giving up on the crop in 2009 when prices were bad, Kaduya told IPS.
 Malawi | Agriculture | Economics and the Environment | Environmental Awareness | Education | and Public Participation | Environmental Impacts

Malawi Business Keen on Power From Mozambique
ips.org | 01 Mar 2011
The feasibility study looking at connecting Malawis electricity grid to Mozambiques Cahora-Bassa hydropower station was completed 15 years ago; a price for power was long ago agreed by the respective governments: but somehow the project is yet to go ahead. In recognition of serious energy...
 Malawi | Mozambique | Economics and the Environment | Energy | Energy Consumption | Hydropower

MALAWI: Villagers heal sick environment
Africa News | 21 Feb 2011
Just step your foot in villages in Traditional Authority T/A Kuntaja and neighbouring T/A Kapeni all in Middle Shire Area in Blantyre District, southern Malawi. Soon after arriving in these two areas your forehead, arm pits will turn into your body's own water springs through releasing sweat profusely due to fierce scorching sun rays.
 Malawi | Environmental Awareness | Education

Malawi: Miracle Man Eases Village's Water Woes
Inter Press Service | 21 Dec 2010
Hermes Chimombo, a welder in his 50s, is a revered man in the impoverished Naotcha Township. Armed with rudimentary tools and a passion to ease peoples suffering, he has tapped a spring in the mountain above the slum to provide water for its 25,000 residents. Go back to 1998. On any given night,...
 Malawi | Food Security | Freshwater

Malawian irrigation techniques
feedproxy.google.com | 03 Nov 2010
This study was carried out it the 2003 Malawian dry season to compare agronomic, technical, socio-economic and financial aspects of different irrigation technologies and water management techniques for two advanced bean lines. Nine water management techniques using five irrigation technologies were studied in Chingale Area Development Program (ADP) in Zomba district in Southern Malawi.
 Malawi | Farming Practices | Food Security | Freshwater

A bio-economic model of fishery exploitation of Lake Malombe Chambo, Malawi
feedproxy.google.com | 01 Nov 2010
The importance of fisheries resources to the economy of Malawi cannot be understated. These resources make a significant contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), provide both direct and indirect employment and supply relatively cheap protein to the population. The Chambo stocks in Lake Malombe declined rapidly in the late 1980s and collapsed in the early 1990s.
 Malawi | Fisheries | Food Security

Malawi Herbalist Joins Fight Against Deforestation
Inter Press Service | 21 Oct 2010
Decades of shifting cultivation by rural farmers have threatened forests in the district of Karonga in northern Malawi. The loss of forest cover has also threatened the livelihood of Benjamin Kalowekamo, a herbalist who depends on local plants to mix his healing concoctions.
 Malawi | Biodiversity | Farming Practices | Forests and Woodlands

Activists Look Askance at New Mine
Inter Press Service | 24 Aug 2009
"We are serious about the integrity of the environment," says Neville Huxham, the country director for Paladin Energy Africa. "We're taking the uranium out of the ground, we're exporting it to be used for productive purposes, so we should be getting a medal for cleaning up the environment."
 Malawi | Environmental Impacts