People with disabilities (PWDs) are a key constituent in Zimbabwe with the overall disability prevalence being 9 percent (9.4 percent and 8.5 percent male), according to Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT, 2017a). According to their Zimbabwe Poverty Report (ZIMSTAT, 2017b), poverty levels are also higher for
A Rural Service Centre which provided all basic infrastructure, had a strong residential component and offered a wide range of services would automatically attract rural non-farm activities.
Zimbabwe's land reform from 2000 radically transformed the agrarian structure, and with this small towns in rural areas. This article explores three such towns—Mvurwi, Chatsworth and Maphisa—examining changes in population, housing, transport and business activity between 2000 and 2020.
Rural areas rely on the bush and their Blair toilets but because the bush is broad, you rarely trample upon faecal matter. There is a strong ecosystem to take care of the bush system in rural areas unlike in urban zones. 3.5 Energy Sources Similar to rural areas, urban zones in Zimbabwe now rely on firewood for their energy needs.
Zimbabwe. The survey covers four smallholder farming sectors namely Communal Lands, Small Scale Commercial Farming Areas, Old Resettlement Areas and A1 Farms. The …
There are increasing calls for the production of small grains, such as sorghum, millet, and rapoko instead of maize production in order to enhance food …
Zimbabwe has developed six strategies to improve the livelihoods of people living in rural areas and who depend 100 percent on agriculture, a cabinet Minister has said. Lands, Agriculture, Water and …
The rural areas of Zimbabwe receives a favorable solar radiation capable to generate sufficient energy to power up main activities and for residential use as well. Remember the rural area is an agro-based community that means a great potential for biogas electricity generation. There is potential for small-hydro across the country, …
Healthcare delivery in Zimbabwe has been premised on the primary health care (PHC) approach (Osika et al., 2010; Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC), 2016; Ray & Masuka, 2017; Kidia, 2018).The PHC approach, articulated in the Alma-Ata (1978) declaration, emphasizes community participation (decision-making) on health …
• In 1990, virtually all the maize marketed in rural Zimbabwe was in the form of expensive refined maize meal which had been milled at the large central mills. In 1997, the vast majority of maize marketed in rural Zimbabwe is in the form of grain or inexpensive 'straight-run' meal, milled largely by small hammermills.
This article explores the development of small grains (sorghum, millet, and rapoko) production and marketing in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) over the colonial era from 1890 to the 1970s.
The majority of the respondents were females between the ages of 30 and 39 years. Secondary level education is most common in the districts and this is in line with the high national literacy levels in Zimbabwe (ZimStat, 2017).Furthermore, aligned to the national employment situation, unemployment in all the districts is very high and of the …
IMPROVEMENTS OF THE SITUATION OF WOMEN AND IN RURAL AREAS Background Zimbabwe has a population of about 14million with 52% being . The bulk of the population, about 70%, lives in the rural areas with the majority being women. The national economy is mainly agrarian with women providing the bulk of the
The author examines, taking into account the urban-rural divides, the changes and welfare implications of income diversification in Zimbabwe following macroeconomic policy changes and droughts of ...
consumption in rural areas. An approach, adopted in Zimbabwe that promises to address this problem is to target income-generating ... are likely to differ in other regions of Zimbabwe. The importance of grinding mills is explained by the fact that maize meal is the staple food in Zimbabwe and much of the region. Many rural s grow their ...
Zimbabwe has developed six strategies to improve the livelihoods of people living in rural areas and who depend 100 percent on agriculture, a cabinet Minister has said.
Apart from the above, there are also socio-economic constraints on the side of the rural communities themselves that limits the utility's ability to supply grid power to the rural areas. These can be summarised as follows. 1. The incomes of the rural communities are erratic and in most cases derived from the seasonal marketing of agricultural ...
Despite the Government of Zimbabwe's pursuit of universal education since 1980, inequities and poor quality education challenges persist unabated in rural schools. The continuing challenges prompted this study to investigate the factors hampering the realization of equity and quality education in rural communities.
This is a $100 million fund which will be disbursed as loans to support rural businesses over the next 5 years. The question then arises; what business can you do in rural Zimbabwe? We attempt to answer this question by suggesting business opportunities that you can exploit in Zimbabwe's rural areas. Farming. Access to land is better in …
Zimbabwe Country Overview 1.0 Introduction The Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) partnership convenes high-level meetings of ministers and ... A breakdown shows that 92% water access is in urban areas and 51% in rural areas. From the s without water, about 87% in urban areas spent an average of 30 minutes ...
brief analysis of the policy content of Zimbabwe's rural plans is necessary in order to provide a meaningful assessment of their effectiveness in achieving sustainable rural development. The ... complex issues of access to land and drought and its impact on off-farm employment in rural areas (through the growth centre policy) was disappointing ...
Makoni, Zimbabwe - When the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted learning in 2020, , a 12-year-old pupil at a rural Zimbabwean school thought his dreams of a brighter future were over. Unlike his urban peers, and millions of other children in rural areas had no access to both electricity and the internet to engage in online or …
The area was first designated as a game reserve in 1928 and currently the park is the largest protected area in Zimbabwe housing a wide ... Table 1) and the majority of them are educated up to primary level (61.2%), which points to a low level of education in rural areas, in general. The study area is predominated by Nambiya (51%) and Tonga …
Abstract: This paper evaluates rural poverty alleviation strategies that have been implemented by the government of Zimbabwe since independence in 1980 such as the establishment of cooperatives ...
Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) is a long-term programmatic approach to rural development that uses wildlife and other natural resources as a mechanism for promoting devolved rural institutions and improved governance and livelihoods. The cornerstone of CAMPFIRE is the right to …
Zimbabwe's rural areas; the state or the people, individ ual or community, RDC or . traditional leaders remained complex, conflictual and unresolved.
This chapter examines the question of whether sustainable agriculture is achievable in Zimbabwe by critiquing government agricultural policies and exploring the challenges …
Some of these informal traders sourced their food from the rural areas and Tawodzera: Food Security in Epworth, Zimbabwe 323 from remittances of food sent from the rural areas, while others farmed in the rural areas and brought the produce to the city after the harvest, hence underlining the importance of migration in the food system of Epworth.
Artisanal and small-scale mining mapping in the Runde Rural District of Zimbabwe. The aim of this study is to provide an interactive map gathering information …
