Malawi
Malawi is a landlocked, low-income country with a rapidly expanding population, over 80 percent of whom are smallholder farmers. Poverty is experienced by most rural families in Malawi, with those headed by women suffering most.
Relying on small parcels of densely cultivated land for their livelihoods, rural Malawians are highly vulnerable to the effects of natural disasters such as floods and droughts. Twenty-five percent of the country has experienced drought more than seven times in the last decade. Episodes of drought as well as severe flooding are increasing in frequency, intensity and unpredictably in Malawi, giving the most vulnerable households inadequate time to recover.
What the World Food Programme is doing in Malawi
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School meals and nutrition
WFP supports education through the provision of daily meals to around 1 million schoolchildren in 900 primary and nursery schools. In 10 percent of these schools, meals are cooked from fresh foods bought from local smallholder farmers. WFP also provides countrywide nutrition support to 318,000 children, pregnant and breastfeeding women, and HIV/TB patients to treat acute malnutrition, and runs a Stunting Prevention project in one district.
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Restoring food security, nutrition and livelihoods
WFP provides relief assistance in times of emergency to save lives and protect livelihoods. Currently, WFP is assisting 6 million drought-affected Malawians with in-kind food, cash and vouchers in order to restore food and nutrition security. Seeking to create a smoother transition to recovery and build resilience in the long run, WFP also delivers a multi-year resilience programme to help the most vulnerable build sustainable livelihoods.
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Food assistance to refugees in Malawi
Around 30,000 people are registered as refugees and asylum seekers in Malawi. They live in officially-designated camps, making them largely dependent on WFP food assistance. WFP works to achieve and maintain food security among refugees through monthly food distributions in the country’s two refugee camps.
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