The need to climate proof Zimbabwe's socio-economic development sectors is now a central theme in the country's climate policy discourse. This stems from the realisation that most of the country's areas and sectors are already showing signs of vulnerability to the change and variability in the...
While the international theme for this year is "Gender Equality for a Sustainable Tomorrow", Zimbabwe's commemorations ran under the theme: "Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment in Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management". Nyoni said in line with this year's theme, the commemorations ar...
HARARE, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Constitutional body the Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) on Tuesday called on the government and relevant stakeholders to break the gender bias that makes women more vulnerable to the vagaries of climate change. In a statement to mark International Women's Day, ZGC ...
Climate change is wreaking havoc in rural farmers’ lives in Zimbabwe, often leading to poor or no harvests in back-to-back seasons. This talk will focus on results from a four-year effort to help rural farmers transition from vulnerable large-scale field-based agricultural practices like corn/...
The climate crisis demands urgent action, and financial support from developed nations is critical to enabling vulnerable countries like Zimbabwe to adapt and thrive. However, this support must be matched by accountability on the ground. It is one thing always among noise about climate change financi...
climate change and variability to assist in better climate risk management strategy development [57,58] in developing countries such as Zimbabwe. As such, the scientific community within and outside Zimbabwe has, over the past decades, been able to exploit various tools and techniques to generate ...
Zimbabwe has set a target to achieve a green economy by 2030 while climate change issues have been mainstreamed in all sectors of the economy.
Zimbabwe has endured droughts for the past three decades. But they’re happening more often and becoming more severe as a result of climate change. Up to 70% of people in Zimbabwe make a living from agriculture or related rural economic activities, and millions of subsistence farmers there depe...
It was an alarming, even sickening, suggestion: Farmers in Zimbabwe hit hard by drought should farm maggots to feed their animals and boost their household incomes.
Southern Africa is among the most vulnerable regions to climate change, and in Zimbabwe it is manifested in droughts and varying rainfall patterns. Several climate-smart agriculture (CSA) projects have been promoted in rural communities in order to reduc