Mary mwambila

 INVEST IN CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE TO BOOST FOOD SECURITY AND RESILIENCE IN MALAWI Climate smart agriculture is a concept that reflects an ambition to improve the integration of agriculture development and climate responsiveness. Climate smart agriculture aims to achieve food security and broader development goals under a changing climate and increase food demand. It involves adopting different agricultural techniques that mitigate climate change and lead to the increase in agricultural productivity, enhance resilience, as well as reduce greenhouse gas emission. Climate smart agriculture has been brought up due to changes in climate and also low agricultural productivity, which hinders food security. The examples of climate change affecting CSA include seasonal droughts, intense rain fall, and floods. Climate smart agriculture has been adopted by farmers in many countries including Malawi. Agriculture highly contributes to the economy in Malawi. Despite growth in governmental exp...

 Floods strike Malawi causing extreme damage to properties and leaving the community homeless  Natural disasters are catastrophic event caused by natural processes that have harmful impacts in the society or community, following a natural hazard event such as floods, droughts, earthquakes, tropical cyclones, volcanoes, and also wildfires. Natural disasters can cause loss of life or damage property and typically leaves economic damages to communities. Despite causing damage to properties, natural disasters may also cause social and economic disruption and also environmental damage which may include soil erosion etc. These effects are stimulated by a number of effects some of which are natural occurring and others are influenced by the hazard activities of people in the community, these include ocean currents, pollutions, global warming, air pressure, seismic waves, mining, soil erosion etc.  Between 27th February and 1st march 2024, two districts in Malawi namely Nkhotakot...

 Pig farming in Malawi In Malawi the livestock sector is one of the growing sectors, however it is not growing enough to meet the demand of the country. Malawi stands to benefit a lot from the livestock sector especially pig farming. As the human population increases the demand for livestock also increases since it is used for food purposes. Pig farming is one of the profitable livestock production in Malawi because they have easy building up flocks and also have quick returns on the investments. As the sector continues to grow pig farming will play an important role in increasing the economy of Malawi as well as promoting food security despite having some religious taboos, thereby increasing income for small holder farmers.  However pig farming is highly adopted by many farmers in Malawi both commercial and subsistence farmers, this is because pigs have a high growth rate, fast at increasing their flock size this is so because the sows produce more piglets and that they are...

 Why empower young women in ICT ICT which stand information communication technology plays a crucial significant role to the world. ICT has helped the world in different fields for example in the education sector it has promoted e-learning, also it has made it possible for students to use digital textbooks and also digital blackboards, it has also led to the improvement of knowledge to the student since they able to gather information on the internet hence improving their performance in school. On the other hand ICT has also brought great achievements and better patient care in the health sector where by the use of ICT tools such as electronic health records (EHRS), telemedicine and health information portals have made it possible to store, share and manage patient’s data more effectively.  Moreover in ICT has also helped the business sector in many ways where by it makes a business more efficient and respond to customer’s needs, and also it makes it easier for the business pe...