Malawi

Farmer Field Schools (FFSs) are a great tool in sustainable agricultural development programs because it is a participatory extension approach that includes a significant focus on group and individual capacity building of farmers. The longer-term empowerment goals of the farmer field school seek to enable extensionists to continue to expand their knowledge and to help others learn and to organize activities on their own within their farms to institutionalize practices of sustainable agricultural…

The article presented: “Tanzania’s Albinos Hacked Apart by Witchdoctors,” exposes the culture, and acceptance, of albino hunting throughout Africa; it does this through the use of specific examples based in the country of Tanzania. Albinism is a hereditary condition that affects one in every 1400 people in Tanzania, (versus one in 20,000 people in North America) due to an expanse of isolated rural communities, and the close reproductive genetic lines that this seclusion produces. Those who are…

Anita Roddick acknowledges, “The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed” which literally means business should not be self-centered but should stand for the welfare of the society and its components (AZQUOTES, ND, Online). In other words, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a management concept that combines three individual entities, which are the corporation, the environment, and the society in a…

digesting our food, making our vitamins, keeping us healthy, etc. This is why we are considered 90% prokaryotic, due to the huge amount of bacterial cells within us (Bassler, 2009). 2. A bacteria called riboflavin that is found heavily in children in Malawi and Venezuela has been shown to extract all the nutrients…

The Europeans started colonizing in Africa in the 15th century, and continued to do so until the early 19th century. One of the main reasons Europe did this was to gain access to the abundant and untapped resources there. The growth of some African countries’ economies during that time can be credited to the international trade of those resources. Africa supplied a wide array of resources that were new, and therefore very desirable, to the Europeans. Among these many resources that were exported…

Throughout her career, the pop icon known as Madonna has been both widely influential and wildly controversial. Since her beginnings in the music industry, she has consistently made headlines, drawing the admiration of her most dedicated fans and the attention of curious onlookers. Lucy O’Brien’s book, titled “Madonna: Like an Icon” is an attempt at chronicling the pop singer’s life thus far in a “definitive biography”. This book is an in depth and interesting read on the reasoning and…

My Multicultural America Learning about race and ethnicity the past couple of weeks has been very eye opening for me. I am a middle class Caucasian girl that has never really had to deal with or even think about any of the things that many other people in American have influence their lives every single day. As much as we want to believe that racism is dead and there is no discrimination anymore, that just isn’t true. I don’t really feel like I can even talk about race and ethnicity because I…

In The Ponds of Kalambayi, Michel Tidwell shares his experience of his Peace Corps mission to teach the people of Kalambayi how to make fish ponds in order to make another source of food. While he talks about his experience, he also shows the connections Kalambayi’s interaction in globalization with the trading of raw materials like cotton and diamonds. However, with these connections, Kalambayi is disconnected from the Western world due to neocolonialism thus causing disconnections that…

crises or mass starvation a product of a natural disaster or is it due to some degree of man-made interference? Global hunger can be analyzed by better understanding some of the place in the world that have been impacted heavily, which include Somalia, Malawi, Niger, Bangladesh, and South Sudan. Part B & C Amartya Sen’s work, Poverty and Famines (1981), is significant in the literature surrounding famines and its causes. The general premise of his essay is that famines do not entirely result…

What are the causes of the global patterns of Malaria? A countries environment and climate are huge factors that affect the predominance of malaria within that country. Mosquitos thrive in warm areas and can only live in temperatures above 16 degrees Celsius. The African Region accounts for 85% of malaria cases and 90% of malaria deaths worldwide. The year round warm climate in sub Saharan Africa provides perfect conditions for mosquitos and the malaria parasite to reproduce quickly and go…