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Malawi food security dance

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Women and children sing and dance a song about global climate change in Chidyamanga, a village in southern Malawi that has been hard hit by drought in recent years, leading to chronic food insecurity, especially during the "hunger season," when farmers are waiting for the harvest. "We are always hungry because of climate change, droughts and floods," states the song's chorus. Indeed, climate change has produced dramatic shifts in the area's rains in recent years, creating a real crisis for formers who have long lived from rain-fed crops.agricultural yields.

Filename
malawi-2011-jeffrey-061.jpg
Copyright
Paul Jeffrey
Image Size
4213x2494 / 5.8MB
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Rural Life, Malawi
Women and children sing and dance a song about global climate change in Chidyamanga, a village in southern Malawi that has been hard hit by drought in recent years, leading to chronic food insecurity, especially during the "hunger season," when farmers are waiting for the harvest. "We are always hungry because of climate change, droughts and floods," states the song's chorus. Indeed, climate change has produced dramatic shifts in the area's rains in recent years, creating a real crisis for formers who have long lived from rain-fed crops.agricultural yields.