The aim of this report is to gather evidence that will identify priorities and actions by stakeholders towards positively influencing, up scaling and accelerating gender equality and women’s empowerment in Zimbabwe. The report consolidates information on gender gaps and drivers of inequality in human endowments, economic opportunities, ownership and control …
Intense debate persists about the climatic mechanisms governing hydrologic changes in tropical and subtropical southeast Africa since the Last Glacial Maximum, about 20,000 years ago. In particular, the relative importance of atmospheric and oceanic processes is not firmly established. Southward shifts of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) driven by high-latitude …
Rainfall patterns in southern Africa are becoming erratic as climate change takes its toll, threatening long-term production of staple and cash crops in the region. Countries like South Africa, Zambia and Malawi have enjoyed bumper harvests of their staple maize crop in recent years, ensuring food security in a region …
PANJIM: In a development that could send shivers down the spine of Goan iron ore exporters, China on Saturday said that they have already started looking out for alternate markets considering the unstable situation of ore supply from India, especially Goa. Chinese delegates, who were in Goa to participate and …
Bangladesh has enhanced its status by one notch to 95th among 110 nations in a worldwide assessment of wealth and quality of life. The country was ranked 96th in the last year's Legatum Prosperity Index that provides the only global assessment of national prosperity based on both wealth and well-being. …
The Earth's natural resources like food, water and forests are being depleted at an alarming speed, causing hunger, conflict, social unrest and species extinction, experts at a climate and health conference in London warned Monday. Increased hunger due to food yield changes will lead to malnutrition; water scarcity will deteriorate …
Melbourne has edged out long-time front-runner Vancouver to be rated the world's most liveable city, a world-wide survey from the Economist Intelligence Unit said Tuesday. The Australian metropolis topped the Global Liveability Survey's ranking of 140 cities world-wide, ahead of Canada's Vancouver which dominated the rankings for almost a decade …
“CHOLERA most forcibly teaches us our mutual connection. Nothing shows more powerfully the duty of every man to look after the needs of others.” So said Titus Salt, a Victorian wool baron who worked to put an end to cholera in Yorkshire. It was cholera, as much as the great …
The food price hike in 2011 has forced the poor to work harder, eat less, live more frugally than ever before, and draw on any resources or assets that they have to cope with the situation. It was revealed in a research report released on Wednesday by the Institute of …
On January 4, websites of the Tunisian government were taken offline by a group, which calls itself Anonymous. It attacked sites perceived to be anti-WikiLeaks. On the same day, it targeted websites of the Zimbabwean government. According to BBC, it was in retaliation after president’s wife Grace Mugabe sued a …
The people of Zimbabwe have to cope with a difficult political situation, but they also face many other problems daily. Climate change is making entire areas of land infertile and may halve crop yields by 2020. Zimbabwe
Urban farming has for years served as a vital input in the livelihood strategies of urban households in Zimbabwe. In general, urban dwellers rely on the market for food but with the tremendous surge in food prices beyond the reach of the majority of the population, the poor urbanites in …
Petina Gappah Harare shoppers in an almost empty supermaket. Opening up the international market for Zimbabwe's controversial diamonds could pull the country out of financial crisis. Four years ago thousands of Zimbabweans descended on the Marange fields in the grip of diamond fever. Marange, near the eastern border with Mozambique, …
Melvyn Thomas | TNN Surat: While diamonds from controversial mines of Zimbabwe continue to be imported into the country via Dubai and other centres, diamantaires are facing a real worry about the United States (US) — world’s biggest diamond consuming market — banning import of non-approved diamonds. Surat has been …
Canadian city of Vancouver has been named as the world's most livable city, while Delhi and Mumbai are being placed at 113th and 117th position, respectively, in an annual survey of livability that assesses living conditions in 140 global cities. The survey, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), listed …
The African elephant's misfortune has been its teeth, in particular the well developed pair of upper incisors known as tusks for which it is being killed in large numbers. The visible ivory part of the tusks is made up of dentine with an outer layer of enamel, and when viewed …
This paper discusses the land struggles of the urban poor in Zimbabwe and the emerging strategies used by the alliance of the Zimbabwe Homeless People’s Federation and its partner Dialogue on Shelter to address these struggles in the face of continued economic and political crisis. The paper looks at how …
Zimbabwe's once promising coffee industry faces total collapse due to upheavals linked to President Robert Mugabe's controversial land redistribution policy, a farmers union said on Wednesday. The coffee industry was growing steadily until 2000, when Mugabe embarked on a drive to resettle landless but inexperienced black farmers on white-owned commercial …
Paying people to protect forests can be an effective way to tackle deforestation and climate change, but only if there is good governance of natural resources, says a study conducted by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). The study funded by the Norway's Government and published yesterday, however, …
