Reports

By Tawanda Majoni MASVINGO, Zimbabwe, 26 February 2016 – Zimbabwe has declared a state of disaster in the face of a regional drought, but smallholder farmers are tackling climate change head on by adopting new livelihood strategies…

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) monitors trends in staple food prices in countries vulnerable to food insecurity. For each FEWS NET country and region, the Price Bulletin provides a set of charts showing…

The assessment was undertaken as a follow up to the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) 2015 Rural Livelihoods Assessment (RLA) conducted in June which identified about 16% of the rural population (approximately 1,5 million people) as…

By Ignatius Banda BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Feb 23 2016 (IPS) - Sijabuliso Nleya has been kept busy in the past few weeks digging up sand. He is not a sand poacher like scores of people who local district…

Jonga Kandemiiri WASHINGTON D.C.— The Harare City Council says a local resident has died of typhoid while the number of those affected by the disease has risen to 23 since the first case was reported last month. Council spokesperson…

SOUTH AFRICA, which is the continent’s biggest corn producer and is suffering the worst drought in memory, may need to help neighboring Zimbabwe with corn supplies as a drought cuts yields throughout the region, a grains…

Sebastian Mohfu MASVINGO, ZIMBABWE— Thousands of Zimbabweans displaced by floods in 2013 have yet to return to their normal lives. The government's Human Rights Commission admits conditions for the displaced are not good but says Zimbabwe does not…

Geneva, 18 February, 2016 Dear Colleagues, In Zimbabwe, food security has extremely been compromised by erratic rains in the 2015/16 season. A greater part of the country has been affected by long dry spells that occurred between January…

Blessing Zulu 18.02.2016 02:39 WASHINGTON—The leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Morgan Tsvangirai, says he will soon approach the international community to assist Zimbabweans who are food insecure and blamed his rival, President Robert…

9 February 2016, JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwe has become the third country in Southern Africa to declare a disaster after Lesotho and Malawi amidst a prolonged drought that has resulted in food shortages. The United Nations estimates…