Tag: famine

Govt needs US$26m towards hungry Malawians

Published on November 15, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

A senior official of the World Food Program (WFP) has appealed to development partners to come in and assist Malawi […]

Malawi in need of food aid increase, warns WFP

Published on September 11, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

About 1.6 million Malawians will need food aid before this year’s harvest, an eightfold increase from last year, because of […]

Farm Input Subsidy gets K40 billion

Published on June 11, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy program, touted for improving food security for the past six years, has been allocated a whopping […]

UN tells Africa to stop begging and grow food

Published on May 21, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

The declaration by the UN that Africa has suitable conditions to feed its people was spot on. At no other […]

Oxfam warns of Africa drought ‘catastrophe’

Published on March 10, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Urgent action is needed to stop drought in West Africa’s Sahel region turning into a humanitarian disaster affecting 13 million […]

The low spark of high-heeled African women farmers | women in and beyond the global

Published on July 7, 2011 by FACE OF MALAWI

The planet of slums is fed, clothed and sheltered by continents, and oceans, of farms, many of them small farms. […]