This influence is particularly apparent in southern Africa, which has limited adaptive capacity to climate change. Particularly in Zimbabwe, the NBT industry is dependent on and affected by weather and climatic changes. It is important to investigate how the NBT industry in Zimbabwe is adapting to ...
Climate change refers to a statistically significant variation in either the mean state of the climate or in its variability, persisting for an extended period (typically decades or longer) due to natural internal processes or external forcings, or persistent anthropogenic changes in the composition o...
This study explores the adoption of CSA in Zimbabwe. This study advances the argument that climate change has had impacts on livelihoods. CSA has been found to be the solution towards the recovery of agrarian-backed economies in developing countries. The
The impact of climate change is one of the major challenges facing rural livelihood systems in Africa. Using a case study research design this study assesses the vulnerability of rural livelihood systems in Gwanda District of Zimbabwe to the impacts of climate change. The study examines the livelih...
Zimbabwe has a huge informal sector and that means people are not sitting around in offices as you would expect with formal jobs. People are exposed to the hot sun and high temperatures working from sun-up to sun-down. All this stress does not serve our health and t...
and livestock.7Changes in vector ecology brought about by floods and damage to environmental hygiene have led to increases in diseases across sub-Saharan Africa, with rises in malaria, dengue fever, Lassa fever, Rift Valley fever, Lyme disease, Ebola virus, West Nile virus, and other infections...
The Zimbabwe Government is to introduce a law to tackle climate change and reduce harmful greenhouse gases emissions. According to Climate Ministry officials, the climate change law will also focus on addressing issues around adaptation – measures through which communities cope with changes in the cli...
These changes could have important implications for economic development, subsistence, and food and nutrition security in the region. Our findings offer insights that can guide actions for adaptation and mitigating the effects of climate change and promoting species conservation not only in the Brazilian...
Climate is the average weather experienced in an area over a long period of time. When this normal or usual state of affairs in the atmosphere changes, it is called climate change. The change makes a negative impact on biodiversity including humanity since livelihoods and life sustenance ...
changes. Consequently, climate change is negatively impacting the livelihoods of the poor as well as deepening poverty in many developing countries (Africa Partnership Forum2008; Nyong2009; Phiri et al.2014,2019). In Zimbabwe, the adverse impacts of climate change are particularly felt in the ...