Reports

Summary FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission (CFSAM) and the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee reports are likely to be released in June and will provide an estimate of the food supply situation and household food security.…

Executive Summary Binga and Nyaminyami (Kariba Rural) districts in the western Zambezi Valley are two of the least developed districts in Zimbabwe. They suffer the dual disadvantages of (a) limited agricultural potential due to poor agro-ecological conditions…

JOHANNESBURG, 22 May 2003 (IRIN) - Prospects are looking grim for Zimbabwe's winter wheat harvest with many farmers unable to plant or tend their crops following equipment theft and foreign currency and fuel shortages. Last year the country produced 230,000 mt…

JOHANNESBURG, 21 May (IRIN) - Deliveries of food relief in Zimbabwe have almost exclusively focused on rural communities, bypassing the needs of the urban poor. Providing aid to towns is complicated by the difficulty of properly targeting the food-insecure, and…

IP/03/684 Brussels, 14 May 2003 - The European Commission has adopted a €13 million humanitarian aid package to support vulnerable people affected by drought and food shortages in Zimbabwe. The funds provided by the Commission's Humanitarian Aid Office, ECHO, under the…

ECHO hands over key equipment to WFP implementing partners Ambassador Francesca Mosca, head of the European Commission's delegation in Zimbabwe, presided over the handover ceremony of a €5 million contribution from the European Commission Humanitarian Office (ECHO) to WFP's implementing partner…

FOOD SECURITY PROSPECTS BETTER THAN LAST YEAR Cereal production estimates just released by SADC and FAO point to an improvement in the food security situation in several countries in comparison to the same time last year. Zimbabwe,…

Introduction Since 2000, the human rights situation in Zimbabwe has undergone a rapid decline. Parliamentary and presidential elections held in 2000 and 2002 respectively were marred by politically motivated violence, intimidation and attacks, largely on the political opposition. The government initiated…

JOHANNESBURG, 2 May (IRIN) - Australia closed the offices of its overseas aid programme Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) in Zimbabwe on Friday, moving its operations to Pretoria, South Africa. Counsellor for development, Nona Bennett, told IRIN the move followed…

[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations] JOHANNESBURG, 1 May (IRIN) - An informal group of land experts met in South Africa recently at the invitation of the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) to…