Having looked at multiple different contexts—including mixed maize in Malawi and cocoa agroforestry in Ghana—we can say that diversified agriculture is a promising avenue to bring about more ...

He goaded Malawi to modernize farming, and maize was considered modern ... West Africa and South Asia and is the author of the book, “The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India’s Young.” ...

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 ...

The book is grounded in Malawi’s economic landscape, where agriculture dominates. Shaba directs his advice toward farmers and small entrepreneurs, offering strategies for saving and investing ...

So the solution, instead, may be to switch up the agriculture system altogether and move away from corn. ADVERTISEMENT A study published in 2021 shows that Malawi’s dairy smallholder farmers ...

“It takes effort of a particular kind to achieve such poor performance,” Mr Dercon wryly noted in his recent book ... to the prices of farm produce. Although Malawi shook off Banda ...

Malawi’s food security depends on maize as the major staple food crop in the country, with 60% of cropped land devoted to its production. Hence, Sovereign has commissioned the initial Program ...

The World Health Organization says more farmers in Malawi have begun to benefit from shifting away from tobacco cultivation, just months after the country ratified a treaty that aims to address ...

BLANTYRE, July 28 (Reuters) - Malawi's output of maize, its staple grain, fell 5.6% in the 2022/23 farming season because of a shortage of fertiliser and extreme weather conditions that damaged ...

Currently, Malawi is expected to send about 3,000 unskilled laborers to work on various agriculture farms. Most of the workers will replace Palestinians who no longer work in Israel because of ...

Malawi legalised cannabis farming for industrial and medicinal use in February 2020 hoping to take advantage of the booming global demand and move away from the reliance on tobacco as an export crop.

Malawi remains one of the poorest countries in the world despite making significant economic and structural reforms to sustain economic growth. The economy is heavily dependent on agriculture, which ...