Zimbabwe
Bulawayo, 19 December 2003 - The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation (TCCAF) today announced that it is donating US$200,000 of food aid to needy communities in Harare and Bulawayo. With effect from today and until the end of February 2004, the food…
Zimbabwe
JOHANNESBURG, 18 December (IRIN) The ongoing lack of agricultural inputs and a new law that allows the government to "compulsorily acquire" farm equipment have been slammed by Zimbabwe's Commercial Farmers Union (CFU). According to the newly gazetted Statutory Instrument, the government…
Zimbabwe
By Kristy Allen-Shirley Vulnerable children in Zimbabwe's capital Harare are benefiting from complementary feeding aimed at increasing their nutritional status and preventing the onset of chronic malnutrition. The C-SAFE daily provision of corn-soy-blend (CSB) is supplied to 1,274 children under…
Zimbabwe
JOHANNESBURG, 17 December (PLUSNEWS) Zimbabwe's struggling agricultural sector, already hard hit by drought, shortages of inputs and the fast-track land reform programme, has also been badly affected by HIV/AIDS. In its latest report the UN Relief and Recovery Unit (RRU) noted…
Zimbabwe
Planning the 2004 humanitarian interventions Planning to adapt the 2004 humanitarian programme to the current situation is well underway. A mid-year review of the Consolidated Appeal was held on the 4th of December. This followed a humanitarian-planning meeting held in…
Zimbabwe
Summary Precipitation levels for the 2003/04 rainfall season has so far been below normal in the major grain growing areas of the country and, in some areas, below the 1991/92 drought year. Land preparation and planting are the…
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: CARE's community-centred Food-for-Work projects in Chirumanzu district, Midlands Province, has not only improved food security, but also the community's ability to produce and implement local initiatives. Benonia Mbudhaya and her team of 16 people are beneficiaries of CARE's Food-for-Work nutrition…
Zimbabwe
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Zimbabwe is conducting a re-verification programme of the registered beneficiary population to ensure the most vulnerable receive food and to produce important information for planning and delivery of food. General food distributions were scaled down after the…
Zimbabwe
Vulnerable children in Zimbabwe's capital Harare are benefiting from complimentary feeding aimed at increasing their nutritional status and preventing the onset of chronic malnutrition. The C-SAFE daily provision of corn-soy-blend (CSB) is supplied to 1,274 children under the age of…
Zimbabwe
By David Brough ROME (Reuters) - The UN food aid agency plans to boost handouts to Zimbabweans in the coming weeks as maize supplies are running out before the harvest and AIDS has killed farm workers and cut food output,…
