In a country where livelihoods heavily rely on rainfed agriculture, rainfall patterns have become unpredictable due to climate change. This has rendered many households food insecure...
Due to droughts caused by climate change, many boreholes on which rural people in Malawi rely for access to safe and clean water, are becoming dysfunctional.
What started as a few peoples’ efforts in Blantyre rural area has evolved into a community project to replenish deforested hills and river banks with trees.
Malawi is already losing the forest cover at an alarming level, but the latest development of cutting down mango trees is especially worrying...
Chikwawa has developed from a small administrative town to a vibrant economic hub thanks to the agricultural and industrial developments. However, the growth of the town has brought with it various environmental challenges...
Malawi has planted over 60 million tree seedlings this tree planting season. Tree seedlings were planted on customary lands, in plantations, forest reserve areas and even along the Shire river banks to prevent river's siltation.
The rate of deforestation in Malawi ranks globally on the fourth place. But some farmers take care of indigenous woodlots, managing them sustainably.
Despite the pricing and quality challenges, more people in Malawi are embracing the sustainable and cleaner way of lighting and powering their appliances with solar energy.
Matthews Shaba Mpofu is pioneering something that a few Malawians have ever heard of. He is teaching people about permaculture farming to achieve sustainable...
Through conservation agriculture practices and the growing of drought resistant crops, local subsistence farmers are hoping to salvage something out of the climate change challenges.
