“It is very important for us to conserve the Elephant Marsh as a key resource for our livelihood. We cannot be selfish and only think of our needs only but we also need to think of future generations,โ said Cecilia Nyakhuwa, a member of the Elephant Marsh Association. Malawi designatedContinue Reading
Mary Saulo, a 48-year-old farmer from Chikhomo Village, is a member of the newly established Chingalumba Producers and Marketing Cooperative in TA Kasisi in Chikwawa. She beams with excitement at the mention of large-scale commercial farming through the SVTP. Destructive impacts of climate change like drought, floods and shifting weatherContinue Reading
โProtecting rare species we have as a country is critical for development. Decisions we make as a country should consider the biodiversity we have. Development should not negatively affect our rare resources.โ These are the words of Dr Tiwonge Mzumara Gawa, a Conservationist and Lecturer in the Biological Sciences Department atContinue Reading
“We have so many expectations from this new irrigation scheme. The transition from electricity pumping to gravity-fed irrigation will save millions we incur each month. We will be able to reduce our operating costs as a cooperative,” said Joseph Sululu of Katunga- Maseya Cooperative in Chikwawa. Sululu was speaking inContinue Reading
Natural resource degradation continues to be a threat to the social and economic development of Malawi. Human activities are, without doubt, the major contributor to the rapid declining ecosystem in the country. Deforestation, habitat loss through encroachment, over-fishing, illegal logging, poaching, illegal wildlife trade and pollution are some ways inContinue Reading
“For many years’ my neighbour and I used to have a lot of disputes over land boundaries. We could encroach into each other’s farms to the extent that we could call the chief to address the problem. These disputes took years until the Ministry of Lands came to ascertain ourContinue Reading
“We have so many expectations from this new irrigation scheme. The transition from electricity pumping to gravity-fed irrigation will save millions we incur each month. We will be able to reduce our operating costs as a cooperative,” said Joseph Sululu of Katunga- Maseya Cooperative in Chikwawa. Sululu was speaking inContinue Reading
The President of the Republic of Malawi Dr Lazarus Chakwera has underscored the importance of the transition from smallholder to commercial farming for national development. If we do not change what we farm and how we farm, we will not become an inclusively wealthy and self-reliant nation. Its that simple.Continue Reading
The President of the Republic of Malawi Dr Lazarus Chakwera in May 2022 assented to six land-related bills. These pieces of legislation will help address challenges the country has been facing with land management. The SVTP supported the drafting of the amended bills and related processes. The amended bills recentlyContinue Reading
The Shire Valley Transformation Programme has been on the drawing board for over 80 years. Large-scale irrigation farming was one of the three pillars of the integrated development plan of the colonial government called the Shire Valley Project (SVP), developed in the 1940s. In 1956, the former Governor of NyasalandContinue Reading
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