1. Sustainable Famine Relief in Malawi
... also the hot season plenty of mosquitoes and flies. The fields are small (about ΒΌ acre) and there will be a couple of fields that make up a farm. They burn the grass and stubble before they turn the soil with their hoe. One reason they burn is to reduce the labor required to prepare the seedbed ... of modern techniques it really brings home the reason that so many people are starving every day. Malawi has about 12,000,000 people (about 3,000,000 farm families is what they estimate, but many of these are headed by mere children, single mothers or the very old). Over 60% live on less that ...
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