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Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Lilongwe university of Agriculture and Natural Resources is a university based in Malawi with the vision: “to be a world class University”. Its mission is to advance knowledge and produce relevant graduates with entrepreneurship skills for agricultural growth, food security, wealth creation and sustainable natural resources management, through teaching, training, research, outreach consultancy and sound management.

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Communities living near protected areas such as Nyika National Park often depend on agriculture and natural resources to survive. Julia van Velden

Malawi study shows how dependency on bushmeat hunting can be reduced

Julia van Velden, Griffith University; Boyson Moyo, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources; Duan Biggs, Griffith University, and Henry Travers, University of Oxford

Enforcement at protected areas is key way to prevent bushmeat poaching, but it’s also important to recognise the contribution bushmeat makes to livelihoods, incomes and food security.
A Malawi boy sits among drying tobacco leaves in 2014. Jeffrey Drope

Big Tobacco woos African farmers with bogus promises of prosperity

Ronald Labonte, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Donald Makoka, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources; Jeffrey Drope, Marquette University, and Raphael Lencucha, McGill University

The tobacco industry claims that tobacco- growing is essential to the livelihoods of millions of small-scale rural farmers in Malawi, Zambia and Kenya. Research shows that’s untrue.

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