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Picture credit: Per Ole Hagen NOTODDEN, NORWAY — Emerging opportunities for climate-smart cooperation between Zimbabwe and Norway took centre stage following a high-level visit to Notodden Municipality by two Zimbabwean opposition officials to a historic Norwegian industrial town renowned for its hydropower legacy, workers’ rights tradition, and pioneering role in renewable energy innovation. The visit…

In a world facing worsening climate shocks, young innovators in Zimbabwe are stepping forward with groundbreaking technological ideas aimed at protecting the planet and shaping a cleaner future. Driven by daily experiences of power cuts, water scarcity, poverty, and environmental degradation, Zimbabwe’s young innovaters are turning creativity into climate solutions. Their innovations, which are being…

Muchaneta Chimuka Several women under Survivors in Action Grassroots Women’s Network in Seke and Chihota are cherishing the fruits of their chick projects, mushroom, bee keeping and maize meal grinding and packaging, vegetable farming among others which is helping in fighting gender-based violence, drug and substance abuse, hunger and poverty among others. They are using…

For years, women in parts of Mashonaland Central particularly in Mt Darwin and Rushinga lived a life dictated by water scarcity. As early as 3 a.m., long before the first cock crowed, women would leave their beds in darkness, balancing buckets and babies on their backs, to walk up to 15 kilometers in search of…

Matabeleland South – Zimbabwe marked the 2025 World Food Day commemorations in Matobo District with a unified call from government, UN agencies and development partners for strengthened collaboration to build resilient, climate-smart and nutrition-sensitive food systems. This year’s event ran under the global theme “Hand in Hand for Better Foods and a Better Future.” Representatives…

In the parched district of Rushinga, Mashonaland Central, where rainfall has become erratic and rivers have long run dry, a group of determined women in Chimukoto Village are rewriting their story of survival.  Once struggled to put food on the table due to consistency droughts, they have turned to non-timber forest products and drought-resistant crops…