Rapports

The Zimbabwean Parliament is currently debating the NGO Bill and is likely to vote in favour of the Bill on Tuesday (23 Nov), allowing for the promulgation into law of another piece of repressive legislation. The Bill prevents international organisations from…

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The livelihood security of 1,600 vulnerable farming households in Matabeleland has improved since the introduction of World Vision's Goat Restocking Project (funded by FAO) earlier this year. As well as suffering from intermittent drought over the past two years, rural communities…

Access to food continues to be the biggest food security challenge in 2004/05. In April 2004 the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) estimated that about 2.2 million rural people would need food assistance between August and November…

by Clever Maputseni - Communications Fifty-four families are surviving on crop produce from the 20 hectare Manzvire Irrigation Scheme established with World Vision Zimbabwe assistance. Established in 1997, the irrigation scheme is operating in the hot and dry agro-ecological region…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] HARARE, 11 November (IRIN) - The Zimbabwean government seriously miscalculated the size of its grain stocks, according to a recently released report by the parliamentary portfolio committee on lands…

Harare (dpa) - A Zimbabwe parliamentary committee has warned that the country will run out of food in the next four months, contradicting President Robert Mugabe's assertion that Zimbabwe has plenty of surplus food. A committee of both ruling party…

PARLIAMENT OF ZIMBABWE FIFTH SESSION FIFTH PARLIAMENT Presented To Parliament on Wednesday, 10th November 2004 [S.C. 33 2004] Ordered in terms of Standing Order No. 153. At the commencement of every session, there shall be as many select committees to be designated according to government…

HARARE, Nov 8, 2004 (Xinhua via COMTEX) Zimbabwe's health ministry will develop, by June next year, a program with the National Task Force on Staple Food Fortification to ensure that Zimbabweans are protected from vitamin and mineral deficiency, New…

SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS Due to much higher than expected maize prices, and no evidence of commensurate increases in rural incomes, the rural population in need of food aid is almost certainly higher than that originally estimated by…