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Still reeling from the aftermath of Cyclone Idai, local authorities in Malawi have collaborated with the SERVIR program and its partner organizations to reinforce the country’s flood warning systems.

• 02/02/2023
• Erica Kriner, Dorah Nesoba

This documentary from USAID's Modern Cooking for Healthy Forests in Malawi explains the factors that exacerbate illegal charcoal production, transportation, and sale in urban areas of charcoal demand.

• 12/08/2022
• USAID Modern Cooking for Healthy Forests

Kandodo markets biogas solutions from his start-up EcoGen, and now he sees farmers in a different light: a source of large amounts of organic waste and a target for fertilizer.

• 12/06/2022
• USAID Modern Cooking for Healthy Forests

In Malawi’s capital Lilongwe, thousands of people hit the nightclubs to party, dance, and eat braai, but Helbert Thondoya is not there to dance.

• 11/29/2022
• Nicholas J. Parkinson

Co-funded by USAID and UKaid, Modern Cooking for Healthy Forests is a five-year climate change activity designed to support the Government of Malawi to address the growing charcoal-led deforestation crisis.

• 10/04/2022
• Nicholas J. Parkinson

There is growing momentum in the international community to ramp up climate finance for mitigation and adaptation actions. Undoubtedly, a focus on climate change adaptation in the developing world must be a priority for the financing.

• 09/08/2021
• Mohamed Bakarr

This photo, submitted on behalf of the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance and United Nations World Food Programme, is available on the Climatelinks Photo Gallery.

• 02/24/2021
• Climatelinks

In Central Malawi, nestled below Chipata Mountain and slightly to the west of Lake Malawi, lies Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve, Malawi’s largest remaining wild landscape and oldest wildlife reserve. The reserve was home to 1,500 elephants in the 1990s. By 2015, there were fewer than 100 left.

• 09/23/2020
• John Kerkering, Katie Moulton

The current global pandemic from COVID-19 is a potent, pressing example of why the international community must focus more on preparedness and risk analysis for a multitude of disasters. Disasters, from floods to droughts to heightened risks of conflict, are increasing in frequency and intensity due to climate change, environmental degradation, and social tensions.

• 04/22/2020
• Sarah Henly-Shepard, Ali Blumenstock

In Southern Malawi, the United in Building and Advancing Life Expectations (UBALE) project, completed in 2019, helped over 240,000 families in three districts produce more abundant harvests, increase income from agriculture, and learn important skills to help cope with changing climate patterns. The project linked agriculture with nutrition interventions to maximize the impact the program had on family nutrition.

• 03/02/2020
• Dooshima Tsee

As USAID and the international community know, if infrastructure fails during a crisis, the implications on human lives are enormous. To ensure future floods and other extreme weather events don’t cause the level of damage and misery seen in the wake of Idai and Kenneth, there are two myths that we urgently need to dispel.

• 01/28/2020
• Michael Szönyi

As my third trip to Malawi in a year came to an end, it was apparent that we have reached a milestone that many might not have thought achievable when we started this project five years ago. On April 4, I attended the launch of Malawi’s new National Greenhouse Gas Inventory System (GHG-IS), where Government of Malawi officials delivered speeches fully endorsing the system. 

• 05/24/2019
• Blanca Bernal

Since its inception in 2005 the SERVIR partnership between USAID and NASA has helped countries monitor environmental change and forecast extreme storms, floods, droughts, fires, red tides.

• 05/04/2015
• SERVIR Global