By Alfred Chauwa
Malawi President Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera on Friday launched the flagship Agricultural Input Program (AIP) at a glamourous event which took place at Kavidebwere Primary School in the area of Traditional Authority Kalikokha in Kasungu District.
Speaking during the event, Chakwera said his Government is looking into ways on how the program has to be improved.
“This is also why we look for ways to improve the programme’s delivery year after year. And while we do not claim that the AIP is a perfect solution, it is undisputed that for four years running now the AIP has achieved food security for more Malawians than any programme like it in the past,” he said.
The president said even in the face of multiple challenges that have befallen Malawi as a nation in the past three years, the AIP has remained one of the strongest safety nets catching millions of Malawians in economic freefall from the devastating effects of pandemics like Covid, outbreaks like cholera, and climate impacts like
droughts and cyclones Ana, Gombe, and Freddy.
Chakwera said giving citizens the ability to grow their own food is as good as giving them the ability to print their own money.
The president said this is why within the first year of being in office, he announced that one of the top three priorities of his Administration is the achievement of food security for every household in Malawi.
“As far as I am concerned, food security is about so much more than nutrition and health. It is possible to be nourished and have your health sustained physically using food that is secured through begging and charity, but that is not the kind of food security we want,” he said.
The president said what his Government want is to achieve food security that promotes self-reliance.
“What we want to achieve is food security that upholds human dignity. What we want to achieve is food security that protects our national sovereignty. What we want to achieve is food security that builds our people’s capacity for economic prosperity,” he said.
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