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In Malawi, Evangelicals Don't Doubt Climate Change
2013-05-28 23:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The river once teemed with fish and was lined by lush banana trees. Now it's a dry, scorched trail of barren sand. In Fombe village, Malawi, climate change is not a matter of political or scientific debate. It's a matter of survival. I recently visited Fombe and several other villages throughout Malawi with a group of American Christian leaders brought together by the Evangelical Environmental Network and Young Evangelicals for Climate Action. We wanted to see the impact of climate disruption firsthand....
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Tanzania impounds 28 tonnes of illegal Malawi sugar
2013-04-22 08:25:13| Sugar Industry News
Amid a wide-spread looming scarcity of sugar in the country, the Tanzanian Government has impounded 28.5 tonnes of Malawi sugar that was reportedly smuggled into that country last year. Tanzania\'s Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives, Adam Malima, told the Tanzania National Assembly in Dodoma, ==23 tonnes of sugar were impounded at Mbeya
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Malawi: Want a Real Expert on Climate Change? Ask Those Worst-Hit
2013-04-10 15:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: Back in 2010, farmers in northern Malawi were advised to stop growing local maize varieties and switch to faster-maturing hybrids, to protect them from a shortening rainy season. Now, less than three years later, the government is urging them to start planting indigenous varieties again, alongside the newer ones, because researchers have found the local maize more resilient to weather extremes. Such stories hint at the difficulty of adapting to changing conditions that can be very hard to predict....
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Malawi, US sign deal on carbon emissions
2013-03-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Times: Governments of Malawi and the United States have signed a US$3.4 million agreement to finance Malawi's Climate Change adaptation and mitigation activities including lowering carbon emissions. Speaking at the signing of the agreement in Lilongwe on Tuesday, mission director for United States Aid for International Development (Usaid) Doug Arbuckle, said the agreement would help foster a strong partnership between the two countries in lowering Malawi's green gas emissions. He said despite Malawi...
Malawi: More Ethanol Could Lighten Malawi\'s Fuel Bill
2013-01-28 06:28:47| Sugar Industry News
Johannesburg As fuel prices climb in Malawi, amid fuel shortages and a soaring inflation rate - prompted by a 50 percent devaluation of the currency - a new paper suggests a way to decrease the country\'s reliance on imported fuel: biofuels.
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