For a majority of farmers in Malawi, the month of May marks the ending of the harvesting season—the beginning of a recess ...

Meet the climate hackers of Malawi. Somini Sengupta and photographer Khadija Farah traveled across Malawi to meet farmers adapting creatively to the climate crisis. April 27, 2023 Supported by By ...

In 2019, the Malawi government, with a loan from the World Bank, launched a six-year, $95 million Agricultural Commercialization (AGCOM) project to increase the dairy production of 650,000 farming ...

Malawi’s once-thriving banana industry is battling for survival, brought to its knees by disease outbreaks, trade disruptions ...

When smallholder farmers in Malawi spot unusual signs on their crops, help is now just a click away. A new AI-driven app ...

Malawi’s trade deficit has widened by a staggering 28 percent, reaching an alarming MK2 trillion, according to the latest ...

Malawi: Farming With a Mixture of Crops, Animals and Trees Is Better for the Environment and for People - Evidence From Ghana and Malawi. Annie Spratt/Unsplash. Women farming cassava.

Intercropping combined with deep bed farming. Courtesy Tiyeni. We worked with a Malawi non-governmental organisation, Tiyeni, which has been training farmers in sustainable and climate-smart ...

It estimates that due to soil degradation, Malawi is losing at least 2.3 million metric tons of maize annually. Maize is Malawi’s staple food crop. Wanda says developing countries face the challenge ...

Malawi is so desperate for food to stave off a hunger crisis that the government may buy a type of corn that the country mainly uses as livestock feed. Malawi Food Crisis Means People May Eat Corn ...

Agriculture accounts for just over 25% of Malawi’s gross domestic product. About 80% of the population depend on smallholder farming for their survival. We are soil fertility and sustainable ...

Deep bed farming is a new practice developed in Malawi where a farmer digs with a pickaxe all the way through the hard layer of soil near the surface. This hard layer – the compacted soil hardpan – ...