Reports

ActionAid’s Ed Watkiss discusses the situation on the ground in Zimbabwe, in the midst of an escalating food crisis that’s risking millions of lives in Southern Africa. Nine million people are currently facing severe food shortages across…

Zimbabwe's worsening food crisis is forcing children to eat only once a day and walk for hours across dry rocky terrain to collect water, according to Save the Children. The agency is warning that without a…

Highlights • The 2019 October to December (OND) rainy season in Zimbabwe was one of the worst on record and rainfall deficits remain across much of the country (Figure 1). • Three of the past five OND…

Renews Arms Embargo, Asset Freeze Against State-Owned Military Company Dewa Mavhinga Director, Southern Africa The European Union yesterday called on the Zimbabwe government to ensure perpetrators of human rights violations are swiftly brought to justice and immediately implement the…

Drought doesn’t necessarily translate to food insecurity – poor governance and failing infrastructure do. Zimbabwe is teetering on the edge of a large-scale humanitarian crisis and South Africa and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) cannot afford…

Executive summary Zimbabwe, southern Mozambique and parts of Zambia are facing an extreme rainfall deficit, after a scarce 2018/2019 wet season, combined with a very poor first half of the current season. Some areas received only 20%…

STORY HIGHLIGHTS A land use project has created alternative livelihoods to community farmers to reduce pressure on the ecosystem and increase community appreciation of conservation Increased land productivity is contributing to food security Key lessons learned in land restoration…

by Marko Phiri | Thomson Reuters Foundation Monday, 10 February 2020 05:00 GMT When roads are bad and extension agents few, technology can help get farmers the information they need to deal with climate shifts and other threats,…

Highlights According to the ZIMVAC (2019) assessments in both rural and urban areas, a total of 7.7 million people (including 3.7 million children) were in urgent need of humanitarian assistance in 2019. Cyclone Idai made landfall on 15…

Severe food insecurity rates across nine southern African countries are 140% higher now than in 2018, primarily because people are being hit by weather extremes driven by climate change, according to Oxfam, CARE, Plan International and…