Subsistence farmer Salome Banda stands beside bags of her maize stacked in a warehouse north of Lilongwe, Malawi February 2, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
LILONGWE (Reuters) - As she walks along a dirt road in central Malawi, Louise Abale carries her precious maize wrapped in a brightly coloured cloth and balanced on her head.
Because of drought in Malawi and across southern Africa the grain has doubled in price in the space of a year, and now costs around 200 kwacha ($0.28) a kilo.
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