Population growth, says Malawi faith groups, is a key ingredient to devastating climate change effects – calling for concerted multi-faith action to address the situation in Malawi with haste. Faith groups meeting in Kasungu at Chikho Hotel agreed that unless they join government and other local and international stakeholders in fighting environmental degradation, mostly as […]
Populations of vulnerable women in Malawi and the Lower Shire belt in the southern region stand to benefit from efforts of a media organisation through advocacy and documentation activities it is carrying out on effects of population, health and the environment (PHE) as they relate to climate change issues. The Journalists Association against AIDS (JournAIDS) […]
Malawi’s Vice President Khumbo Kachali has expressed worry with the high number of children-at an average six-that Malawian families have saying this is straining on the country’s resources. Speaking during the opening of the National Leaders’ Conference on Family Planning, Population and Development in Lilongwe, Kachali said the country’s fertility rate at 5.7 children per […]
Impoverished Malawi is losing more than US$191 million or 5 percent of its Gross Domestic Product per year due to unsustainable use of natural resources brought by a high population growth rate, it has been learnt. Malawi has 14 million inhabitants according to the 2008 Housing and Population Census and a fifth of its land […]