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When Godfrey Chikwakwa married Joyce White 24 years ago, little did he know that she would employ him. With help from a Village Savings and Loans Association - supported by the PROSPER programme - Ms White has successfully started her own small business.

The Modern Cooking for Health Forests (MCHF) in Malawi project in partnership with mHub and in coordination with the Government of Malawi has launched a business accelerator programme.

The Malawi Clean Cooking Fund is a $1.1 million dollar performance-based grant fund (PBG) designed to increase the supply of, and demand for alternative cooking energies and fuel-efficient cooking technologies in Malawi, as well as the supply of sustainable wood fuels from well-managed forest resources.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has received a £4.5 million contribution from the Government of the United Kingdom to provide cash assistance to people facing severe hunger in Malawi.

Dorothy Tembo-Nhlema, Chair of the Weather Chasers Group in Malawi, sees how the group is part of a larger civil society movement for positive change.

Professor Sosten Chiotha shares his vision of holistic, sustainable adaptation to climate change - based on years of first hand experience in Malawi. 

Small-scale farmers in sub-Saharan Africa need accessible climate information, in order to make important crop and land management decisions. New research from Malawi shows that women farmers have specific needs.

13 October 2020 was the thirty-first International Day of Disaster Risk Reduction. How should Malawi approach disaster risk reduction?

Malawi's 2019 heatwave led to consecutive days with very high temperatures - a scenario that tea growers fear. Tea bushes were scorched in Mulanje and Thyolo districts.