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Climate extremes, policies confuse crop choices for Malawi farmers

Tue, Aug 15, 2017 - 5:50 AM

Lilongwe, Malawi

ELIAS Kanyangale is ecstatic about his maize harvest. Balancing on a homemade ladder, the farmer retrieves cobs from a full granary, the bounty of this year's good rains, which broke three years of drought in Malawi.

Mr Kanyangale, 44, from Kalumbu village, part of...

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