CDF-Canada to implement integrated aquaculture project in Dowa [Video]

The Co-operative Development Foundation of Canada (CDF) will implement a 5 years (2024-2028) Integrated Aquaculture-Agriculture to combat food insecurity in Malawi (IAAM) project in eight districts of the country including Dowa.

The project is a strategic response to other solutions for economic recovery to be sustainable, resilient, and inclusive strategy of “combating forces against hunger” a policy to improve food sufficiency in Malawi with a primary goal of accessing markets for small-scale food producers as a means of combating food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Introducing the project to the District executive committee in Dowa, IAAS Specialist Tionge Soko, said in Malawi, farming families are disproportionately poor and vulnerable who bear the brunt of climate change impacts, they often live at the edge of poverty.

Soko said Malawi has become a climate hotspot due to extreme weather events such as floods, cyclones, droughts, unpredictable rainfall patterns, deforestation and forest degradation saying …