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this week’s Malawi links

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on 25 August 2009 | 2 Comments »

A friend who shot a film in Malawi releases a teaser trailer.
Well, I’m not exactly sure that this is in Malawi, but I’ve seen plenty of footballs (soccer balls for the Americans) crafted from condoms whilst in Malawi.
A blogger/doctoral student ponders the public vs. private delivery of social services, with an anecdote about a trip [...]

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Fertilizer: for the full but not the hungry?

Posted in Africa, developing countries, tagged , , , , , , , on 22 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A handful of today’s posts at African Agriculture discuss the use of fertilizer in Africa. The synopsis of the four posts is that fertilizer is expected to be expensive again next year and people wonder about the costs/benefits of subsidizing fertilizer for poor farmers in Africa. Malawi has a fertilizer subsidy program and, perhaps not [...]

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organic, local, fair-trade, blah blah blah

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on 12 March 2009 | 8 Comments »

Perhaps it was watching a garden grow in my backyard in Zomba before the rains even began (yikes, the water bill)… or maybe it was growing up in a place that has more industrial than non-industrial farming going on. But, after nearly a decade of caring about whether my food was “organic” or “local” enough, [...]

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Tips for Teaching Typing in Malawi?

Posted in Africa, developing countries, malawi, teaching, technology, tagged , , on 21 April 2008 | 2 Comments »

Thanks to a generous fellowship from Sara’s Wish Foundation, I will be able to teach a couple of short
typing courses during my stay in Malawi as a Fulbright Fellow, conducting research for my dissertation. With the fellowship from Sara’s Wish, I will purchase some used iBook laptops (Macs get fewer viruses in Malawi), and as [...]

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