Tearfund partners in Southern Africa are becoming increasingly concerned about food shortages. The Evangelical Association of Malawi reports that in some central districts people have collapsed and died from hunger while foraging in the bush, and that there is a big influx of people to the towns and cities begging for food. About 300 people have died so far and the crisis will get worse before it gets any better. The harvest, which will be gathered in April, is poor due to lack of rain. People are migrating from the poorer districts and theft is on the increase. In some villages people are too weak to dig individual graves, and two or three bodies are buried together.