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Livestock for food and nutrition security in Malawi: Policy gaps, needs and opportunities
January 5, 2022 by P J Modi Views 321
Livestock for food and nutrition security in Malawi: Policy gaps, needs and opportunities

Malawi’s growing population is expected to place an increasing demand on its food production systems but the country’s smallholder farmers, the providers of the nation’s food, aren’t poised to benefit from this increased demand. Why, one might...

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A tale of ‘chicken and egg’: Malawi farmers reduce poultry feed cost by 80%, increase egg production by 200%
April 1, 2021 by MOHD FAREEDUDDIN Views 998
A tale of ‘chicken and egg’: Malawi farmers reduce poultry feed cost by 80%, increase egg production by 200%

Compelled by high cost of commercial feed and low egg production, a group of farmers-turned-entrepreneurs began making nutritious chicken feed with locally available ingredients that cut input costs drastically, significantly increased egg...

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Auctions in markets herald higher incomes for Malawi’s crop-livestock farmers
September 4, 2020 by MOHD FAREEDUDDIN Views 785
Auctions in markets herald higher incomes for Malawi’s crop-livestock farmers

Farmers in three districts of Malawi are able to earn more than they did from selling goats, thanks to a simple intervention that brought transparency, demand and competition for high quality meat.   It was the competition among buyers that...

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The nexus between agri-food value chains and nutrition
June 30, 2020 by MOHD FAREEDUDDIN Views 881
The nexus between agri-food value chains and nutrition

Multi-stakeholder policy dialog in Malawi Malawi has prioritized improving food security for its people through maize-oriented policies and investments. This has, however, come at a cost of losing agricultural diversity and the nutrition benefits...

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Phalula’s meat business is changing and its butchers are heralding it
September 11, 2019 by MOHD FAREEDUDDIN Views 1672
Phalula’s meat business is changing and its butchers are heralding it

The meat trade in Malawai’s Phalula is on the cusp of transformation with butchers set to turn businessmen courtesy of a modernized slaughterhouse powered by a savvy business model. The EU-funded CLIM2 project is using the Innovation Platform...

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Business meets nutrition as Kuroiler chickens find a place in smallholder farms in Malawi
September 10, 2019 by MOHD FAREEDUDDIN Views 4330
Business meets nutrition as Kuroiler chickens find a place in smallholder farms in Malawi

When the Kuroiler, a dual-purpose chicken breed renowned for its performance under free range village farming systems was introduced in Malawi by the CLIM2 project, it presented an opportunity for smallholder farmers to tap into the increasing...

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Is there a future in crop residues as a source of biomass to feed livestock?
September 10, 2019 by MOHD FAREEDUDDIN Views 1169
Is there a future in crop residues as a source of biomass to feed livestock?

In the context of small land holdings in Malawi, would the use of crop by-products and residues hold the key to sustainable livestock production? With erratic rains resulting in production of only the vegetative part of the crop, would its use as...

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Combating malnutrition, one chicken at a time: The one-child-one-chicken rule?
July 31, 2018 by MOHD FAREEDUDDIN Views 919
Combating malnutrition, one chicken at a time: The one-child-one-chicken rule?

“How about a one-child-one-chicken rule?” One of the women farmers breaks the contemplative silence during a field training on rural poultry-keeping in Malawi’s Chiadzulu District as part of the Crop-Livestock Integration and Marketing in Malawi...

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Butcher men of Balaka cut to the heart of the problem in goat markets
July 31, 2018 by MOHD FAREEDUDDIN Views 1825
Butcher men of Balaka cut to the heart of the problem in goat markets

The butcher men of Balaka in southern Malawi are a group of rough-and-ready men, often considered shrewd and unscrupulous, and almost always overlooked in development projects. No one could have imagined that these middlemen – the least...

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Gross margin analysis: Choosing more profitable agricultural enterprises
July 29, 2018 by MOHD FAREEDUDDIN Views 1952
Gross margin analysis: Choosing more profitable agricultural enterprises

At the end of a training for farmers in Gross Margin Analysis, the chairperson of the Thobola Women’s Club stood up, looked around and said: “For the first time we feel we are finally able to help ourselves in choosing profitable enterprises, as...

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I dream of bumper yields: Farming with a vision in Malawi
July 29, 2018 by MOHD FAREEDUDDIN Views 639
I dream of bumper yields: Farming with a vision in Malawi

“I want to be harvesting 100 bags of maize and 70 bags of pigeonpea from my farm,” a farmer from Thumbwe EPA in Chiradzulu district, southern Malawi, narrates what he dreams of achieving in his farming enterprise during one of the first...

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Innovation Platforms: Malawian agriculture drumming to a new beat
July 16, 2018 by MOHD FAREEDUDDIN Views 569
Innovation Platforms: Malawian agriculture drumming to a new beat

Agriculture is about people. People talk all the time, but not always about the right stuff! The most effective way to find solutions to the challenges of farming, is to get people talking – about agriculture, and the solutions, rather than only...

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Recent Posts
  • Livestock for food and nutrition security in Malawi: Policy gaps, needs and opportunities January 5, 2022
  • A tale of ‘chicken and egg’: Malawi farmers reduce poultry feed cost by 80%, increase egg production by 200% April 1, 2021
  • Auctions in markets herald higher incomes for Malawi’s crop-livestock farmers September 4, 2020
  • The nexus between agri-food value chains and nutrition June 30, 2020
  • Phalula’s meat business is changing and its butchers are heralding it September 11, 2019
  • Business meets nutrition as Kuroiler chickens find a place in smallholder farms in Malawi September 10, 2019
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