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Malawi, Washington Malawi
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Development communication specialist, helping organisations with rural communication and advocacy in Southern Africa
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You may not know Jane Phiri, but she is a pregnant mother with four young children who cannot stop thinking about what will happen to her family when her maize flour finally runs out in a week’s time. For the past month, she has been trying to make the flour last longer by having the family live on just one meal a day but even that will soon become impossible. Jane lives in a remote African village with her husband where they earn a living from an acre of land, growing maize and some legumes using rain-fed techniques. But due to effects of climate change, the rains have become erratic in recent years and, this year, the crop was particularly poor with the family managing only a meagre har...
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University of Malawi, Bunda College of Agriculture
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