Talk:Food security in Malawi

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Currently rewritting

Gathering information and rewritting the article in Microsoft Word. Help is welcome. - Tutmosis 20:11, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Excuse me, but I just saw on the news that Malawi has dramatically increased agriculture recently, and is now exporting food to its neighbors. School attendance is up, and people are feeling good about the future. Why doesn't the article reflect this change? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.101.112.219 (talk) 02:58, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Updating the Malawian food crisis article

I plan on updating this article as part of my work as a Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities minor at Rice University. As others have noted, this article’s information is out of date. I plan on updating it with more recent information about the current food crisis in Malawi (in 2013, the UN reported that 11% of the population, 1.63 million people, are suffering from food shortages), as well as expanding the information about the 2005 food crisis. After the 2005 food crisis, Malawi was on the rise and even had a surplus of maize for some years; interventions by the Malawian government and international organizations (primarily fertilizer subsidy programs for farmers) have allowed Malawi to recover. Recently, however, due to periods of flooding and drought (among other causes), the maize yield has been dangerously low and the food shortage has returned.

I plan on discussing the food crisis from the early 2000s as well as the current one. My proposed outline for this article is as follows:

Background and causes of 2005 food crisis

Background of food crises in Malawi

Political causes

Economic causes

Social causes

Agricultural and climate causes

Relief efforts from 2005 food crisis
Effects of the 2005 food crisis

Health

Policy

Culture

Food shortage in 2013

I realize that the political, economic, and social causes of the food crisis are interrelated, and so I will address that in the article.

I would really appreciate any feedback on this proposed outline as I move forward. An anonymous commenter previously noted that Malawi’s agriculture increased dramatically in 2008, and that school attendance was up. I had not previously thought of the relationship between school attendance and the food crisis (although clearly there is one), and I would love any feedback or suggestions on how to integrate that and other social/cultural effects of the food crisis into my article. Avw1 (talk) 05:37, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]