The German funding agency Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) has renewed its commitment to enhancing green agriculture in the Malawi–Zambia Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA), a pivotal region in IFAW’s Room to Roam initiative. This extension of support, running through December 2025, marks a significant step forward in ensuring sustainable farming practices and conservation, enabling ...

A $52.3 million project approved today by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) aims to help Malawi cope with the devastating effects of climate change and boost the country’s long-term food security. Led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the project is set to benefit nearly 575,000 vulnerable people in rural communities over ...

Farmers check the growth of maize in drought-hit fields in Macheke, Mashonaland East Province, Zimbabwe in this March 10, 2019 photo. A severe drought has currently decimated crops leaving many people at risk of hunger. Photo / Shaun Jusa / Alamy This article was originally published on Dialogue Earth under the Creative Commons BY NC ND license. The first ...

Mozambique’s Port of Nacala. Source: Oriental Consultants Global Malawi is positioning itself as a multimodal transhipment country linking landlocked neighbours such as Zambia with burgeoning ports in northern Mozambique. Apart from upgrading existing road infrastructure and expanding its logistical network through the support of the US foreign aid agency’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MMC), Malawi is ...

Farming just one kind of crop in a field at a time, and using a lot of chemicals, poses a risk to both people and nature. This simplified intensive agriculture often goes hand in hand with increased greenhouse gas emissions, land and water degradation, and loss of biodiversity. There’s another way to farm: increasing the ...

World Food Programme and Government join forces to boost farm production, strengthen livelihoods and empower women in a challenging environment. Sa’a Moussa heads a cooperative of women farmers adapting to changing rainfall patterns to grow their businesses in Niger. Photo: WFP/Adamou Sani Dan Salaou. Sitting atop a pile of millet sacks in the southern Niger ...

In the village of Ndodo, 40 kilometers south of the Malawian capital Lilongwe, farmers gather in the shade of an acacia tree as a voice over a smartphone tells them how to get rid of a weevil that’s destroying their sweet potato crops. The tips offered by the app in the local language Chichewa is ...

Fred Khanganya, a farmer selling his goods at the Lizulu Market in Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital and largest city, has been standing by his pile of cabbage and Irish potatoes for hours, hoping to turn his harvest into hard cash. But the money isn’t coming.A section of the Lizulu Market in Lilongwe, Malawi. Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman/The ...

Richard Mkandawire received a $10,000 prize but he did not make it physically to collect the award because of the tragedy in Malawi. Courtesy Malawi’s Richard Mkandawire and Nigeria’s Umezuruike Linus Opara have been awarded with the inaugural Research and Innovation Competence in Agriculture Awards. The two were awarded for their notable contributions to the ...

While Zambia’s economy is still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic and a previous recession, a new Country Economic Monitor (CEM) report shows pathways that can support the country’s productivity to enhance economic transformation, create better jobs, and deliver sustained and inclusive growth. The new CEM, launched today, titled Unlocking Productivity and Economic Transformation for Better ...