Malawi can end hunger after the 2025 elections if bold steps are taken to transform food systems
Malawi has a history of peaceful democratic transitions. Since the advent of multiparty politics in 1994, power has regularly shifted between rival parties. Citizens and institutions have upheld electoral democratic norms, from respecting term limits to rerunning elections after irregularities. Yet...
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| author | De Weerdt, Joachim Chirwa, Gowokani Chijere Duchoslav, Jan Nagoli, Joseph Cockx, Lara |
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| description | Malawi has a history of peaceful democratic transitions. Since the advent of multiparty politics in 1994, power has regularly shifted between rival parties. Citizens and institutions have upheld electoral democratic norms, from respecting term limits to rerunning elections after irregularities.
Yet, democratic elections haven’t translated into economic prosperity, nor into strong economic institutions. Malawi remains the world’s poorest conflict-free nation. At the last count in 2019, 70% of Malawians lived below the international poverty line of US$2.15 per day. More than half of Malawi’s residents are deprived in many, overlapping ways. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1766462025-12-08T10:29:22Z Malawi can end hunger after the 2025 elections if bold steps are taken to transform food systems De Weerdt, Joachim Chirwa, Gowokani Chijere Duchoslav, Jan Nagoli, Joseph Cockx, Lara hunger food systems political systems poverty Malawi has a history of peaceful democratic transitions. Since the advent of multiparty politics in 1994, power has regularly shifted between rival parties. Citizens and institutions have upheld electoral democratic norms, from respecting term limits to rerunning elections after irregularities. Yet, democratic elections haven’t translated into economic prosperity, nor into strong economic institutions. Malawi remains the world’s poorest conflict-free nation. At the last count in 2019, 70% of Malawians lived below the international poverty line of US$2.15 per day. More than half of Malawi’s residents are deprived in many, overlapping ways. 2025-09-14 2025-09-23T19:42:06Z 2025-09-23T19:42:06Z Opinion Piece https://hdl.handle.net/10568/176646 en Open Access The Conversation De Weerdt, Joachim; Chirwa, Gowokani Chijere; Duchoslav, Jan; Nagoli, Joseph; and Cockx, Lara. 2025. Malawi can end hunger after the 2025 elections if bold steps are taken to transform food systems. The Conversation. Article published September 14, 2025. https://doi.org/10.64628/AAJ.yyj5xdcek |
| spellingShingle | hunger food systems political systems poverty De Weerdt, Joachim Chirwa, Gowokani Chijere Duchoslav, Jan Nagoli, Joseph Cockx, Lara Malawi can end hunger after the 2025 elections if bold steps are taken to transform food systems |
| title | Malawi can end hunger after the 2025 elections if bold steps are taken to transform food systems |
| title_full | Malawi can end hunger after the 2025 elections if bold steps are taken to transform food systems |
| title_fullStr | Malawi can end hunger after the 2025 elections if bold steps are taken to transform food systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Malawi can end hunger after the 2025 elections if bold steps are taken to transform food systems |
| title_short | Malawi can end hunger after the 2025 elections if bold steps are taken to transform food systems |
| title_sort | malawi can end hunger after the 2025 elections if bold steps are taken to transform food systems |
| topic | hunger food systems political systems poverty |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/176646 |
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