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Growing pains: Zimbabwe’s female tobacco farmers struggle to compete Martin Moreen Tanhara waits patiently for officials to inspect her tobacco. The 49-year-old has travelled nearly 100 miles (150km) overnight in an old lorry to reach Tobacco Sales Floor, an auction house in Harare. Tanhara sits quietly on one of the fragrant sacks she has brought from Guruve, a farming area north of Zimbabwe’s capital, while on the auction floor workers prepare tobacco leaves for the first sales of the season. The auction house attracts farmers from across the country but this year, due t...

The auction house attracts farmers from across the country but this year, due to Covid-19 restrictions, only a few are allowed on the auction floor. Dozens more wait outside, among them Chinese tobacco dealers, the country’s main buyers. Every year Tanhara, a widowed mother of four, comes here to sell her crop. If prices are low, she leaves disappointed but this year she is hopeful after a good rainy season. Her tobacco is given a high grade and opening prices are strong – $4.30 (£3.10) a kilo. If she turns a healthy profit, it will be thanks in part to a stokvel she and other w...

By Robert Tapfumaneyi THE Government of Japan has contributed US$1.25 million through the World Food Programme (WFP) to support vulnerable, food insecure communities in Zimbabwe whose livelihoods have been severely impacted by climate shocks and Covid-19. The support will assist 11 080 people in building community and household assets in the districts of Mount Darwin (Mashonaland Central) and Matobo (Matabeleland South). Many Zimbabweans are still feeling the effects of the successive droughts and a dire economic situation which has been exacerbated by Covid-19. Said Japan ambassador to Zimba...

Japan provides further support to improve food security in Zimbabwe Format The Government of Japan has contributed US$ 1.25 million through the World Food Programme (WFP) to support vulnerable, food insecure communities in Zimbabwe that have been severely impacted by climate shocks and COVID-19. To address the root causes of food insecurity and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2 - Zero Hunger - WFP recognises that it is important to forge such partnerships in order to undertake long term strategies to secure a brighter future for these communities. Japan’s contribution comes at a time w...

February 25, 2021 Burchell's zebra are among the more than 120 species protected in Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe. © IFAW/Mike Cadman For observant rangers undertaking patrols in the Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, even the smallest details offer a host of information that can help them protect wildlife. It could be the faint scuff of a shoeprint on a path worn smooth by elephants, the sight of large numbers of vultures rapidly descending in a particular area, or even the raucous alarm call of a grey go-away bird. Everything in the bush tells a story and all of these could signal a p...