Five countries -- Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe -- have declared a state of national emergency in the past months as the drought has destroyed scores of crops and livestock.

An increasing number of farmers across Malawi are ditching chemical fertilizers in favor of Mundawathu Organic Fertilizer--a homegrown innovation they say is not only reviving their soils but ...

A drought and an incomplete reform agenda undermine prospects for a rapid economic recovery in Malawi. While implementation of planned macroeconomic and structural reforms is expected to boost GDP ...

with Lake Malawi and countless rivers, only a fraction of Malawian farmland is irrigated. Over 80% of our agriculture still relies on rain, leaving us vulnerable to drought year after year.

In 2024, Malawi’s economy faced significant challenges, with real GDP growth slowing to 1.8% due to a severe drought and acute foreign exchange shortages. The poverty rate rose to 71.2%. The interplay ...

[VOA] In Malawi, the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) is working to address a rising number of malnourished children amid an ongoing drought, the worst to hit southern Africa in decades. The WFP ...

Amid increasing threats of another food crisis in Malawi following a drought that has yet again hit the country, the National Smallholder Farmers Association of Malawi (NASFAM) has announced the ...