Plants are cultivated for their slender roots, which can grow about 1 meter long and 2 cm across.

We all went looting the local shops I still have the slim volumes of romantic poetry which my 16 year old self took from a bookshop.

The costs of the government s failure to support farmers can be seen in the stunted bodies of children and the poor diets of adults, even in a year when Malawi is witnessing bumper harvests of corn, the country s staple. Where are we going to get proteins?