Zvishavane, Zimbabwe – In the parched fields of rural Zvishavane, families are surving on picking tomatoes from @Sibusisiwe Nyakunhuwa’s farm, their buckets slowly filling under the hot sun. Nearby, a young boy balances a heavy pail of tomatoes on his head, walking beside his mother. For this family, and many others in southern Zimbabwe, tomatoes…
Hundreds of rural women farmers across southern Zimbabwe are benefiting from labour-saving agricultural technologies introduced through a partnership between the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Government of Zimbabwe and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), aimed at strengthening climate resilience and improving livelihoods. The Climate Resilient Livelihoods Project has provided 230 Farmer Field Schools with…
More than 80,000 vulnerable people in Mberengwa District are set to benefit from a lean season food assistance programme funded by the Government of Japan, as Zimbabwe continues to battle climate-induced food insecurity despite improved rainfall in parts of the country. The assistance, valued at USD 2.5 million, is being delivered through the World Food…
Harare, Zimbabwe, The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Environment, Climate and Wildlife has raised alarm over the Ministry’s failure to fully utilise its 2025 first-quarter budget, warning that the shortfall is crippling the delivery of key environmental and climate services. According to the committee’s report tabled in the National Assembly, the ministry was allocated ZWG$516.8 million…
By Fungai Mutimodyo Women iin Marondera are reshaping both their future and live hoods by investing into plastic waste recycling for income and local environment. The initiative begun as a small community effort to clean up littered streets but later evolved into a growing informal enterprise, where discarded plastic is no longer seen as waste,…
Tears came before the words. They gather quietly in the corners of Takemore Mupfuya’s eyes as she tries to steady her voice, then fall one by one down her cheeks, slow, heavy drops that carry the weight of memories she has tried, and failed, to bury. Sitting quietly on a bench, twicking her eyes trying…
For generations, farmers in Ward 5 of Mudzi District, Mutoko, depended on the land. Small grains such as sorghum and millet crops traditionally considered more resilient in dry areas sustained households through difficult seasons. But as rainfall patterns become increasingly unpredictable and dry conditions intensify, even traditional coping strategies are becoming harder to maintain. Now,…
by Donald Chidoori In Zimbabwe smallholder farmers and community forest users in Zaka – a rural district endowed with vast Miombo and Mopane woodlands in Zimbabwe’s Masvingo Province – are embracing sustainable agriculture and forest management practices. This transformation is driven by the Dryland Sustainable Landscapes Impact Program (DSL-IP), a regional initiative funded by the…
Across Zimbabwe’s parched fields and flooded lowlands, two competing explanations for calamity are spreading. Scientists point to El Niño, changing rainfall patterns, deforestation and weak water management. But an increasingly loud counter-narrative — repeated at pulpits, in private Facebook groups, on X/Twitter and on TikTok — insists that droughts, floods and cyclones are moral punishments…
Muchaneta Chimuka, Agriculture Correspondent The Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) Zimbabwe is reviving nomadic land-use practices through training farmers in Holistic Land Management (HLM) and biomonitoring to climate-proof agriculture and ensure sustainability. HLM is a decision-making framework and grazing approach that manages livestock to improve ecosystem health, such as soil, water and biodiversity, while…
