Malawi and FAO commit to long term food security programmes
Building resilience in floods affected areas is a priority
3 February 2014--- Farmers in southern Malawi urgently need seeds and livestock after intense flooding destroyed their fields and homes, washing away animals and crops and threatening local food security. Malawi is regularly affected by droughts and floods. But the current heavy rains have come ahead of their usual schedule - repeatedly bursting the banks along the Shire and Ruo rivers - and their impact has been far wider.
FAO Director-General, José Graziano da Silva, talks about the intense flooding that affected Malawi during a television interview with Malawian reporter, in Addis Ababa, following an audience with the President of Malawi on 31 January 2015.
Link:
http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/275944/icode/ (Reference: FAO Press Release, 28 January 2015, Rome).