Eneless Beyadi appears through a forest of maize clutching an armful of vegetables and flashing a broad smile. Beyadi cultivates about half a hectare of plots in the village of Nankhunda, high on the Zomba plateau in southern Malawi. She gets up at 4 a.m. every day to tend her gardens, as she lovingly calls them, before heading off to teach at a school. In the afternoon, she returns to the gardens, which help to feed her family of six. As testimony to her efforts, the maize (corn) on Beyadi s land stands tall even in the lashing rain, whereas the stunted, yellowed stalks on a neighbour's plot bow low.
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