Category: Malawi
Women are the agents of change for climate change in southern Africa
Today South Africa marks Women’s Day. Much like the women being commemorated for the march to the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956, women in southern Africa today may well hold the same flint that lights a “new movement” – climate change. Southern Africa is one of the regions projected to experience the most serious consequences of global warning and the El Niño effect. In 2019, we experienced one of the worst disasters the region has ever seen – Cyclone Idai ravaged communities in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe and continue to rebuild their lives.
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In Pictures: Malawi drought affects 6.5 million people
Across all 28 districts in Malawi, an estimated 6.5 million people are currently affected by one of the strongest droughts on record, the majority in the southern and central regions. Induced by the El Niño weather phenomenon, the lean season is expected to continue through March 2017.
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Promoting self-reliance to ongoing drought through grassroots lending scheme
Driving into Ilemba village in Mwanza district in southern Malawi, it is challenging, passing row upon row of waist-high plants of green peas, to understand the ongoing drought.
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