Every year, on the 5th day of June, the world gets ready to celebrate ‘The World Environment Day’. This day is used to sensitize masses on environmental issues, how they affect their lives and propose solutions to the resultant problems. The theme for this year’s celebrations is “Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care”.

In just two years, the Expanded Cassava Village Processing Programme (ECVP-P), a programme of Farm Concern International, has facilitated sales worth USD 169,656,189.92, enabled farmers to have 84,784.44 hectares of land under cultivation and produce 391,720.6 MT of cassava.

FCI with support from COMESA has conducted technical capacity building for cassava-focused Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) from Zambia, Seychelles, Malawi, Burundi and Kenya. Cassava accounts for 15% of the total global starch production. FAO statistics rank cassava as fourth food crop in the developing countries feeding over 500 million people.

Farm Concern International (FCI) attracted 150 participants from different developmental sectors to plant over 4,000 trees in Malawi. Two schools, Namatamba Primary School in Zomba and Namitete Primary School in Thyolo Districts, were identified as the most susceptible to flooding effects leading to the tree planting exercise at the sites.