Learning from past and current food security efforts and challenges in Zimbabwe: The years 1430-2020.

Zimbabwe has been experiencing food insecurity for many centuries. This study sought to explore and learn from Zimbabwe's past and current food security (FS) efforts and challenges, through three historical periods, namely the precolonial, colonial and postcolonial, from about 1430 to 2020. The year 1430 marks the establishment of the Monomotapa state, one of the starting points for Zimbabwe's own national reconstruction.

The impact of disasters on economic growth in selected Southern Africa development community countries.

This research study explores the impact of disasters on economic growth in selected Southern Africa Development Community countries. Annual data from 2005 to 2019 and panel data econometric estimation techniques are used in this study. The estimation approaches used control for both pooled and individual effects, heteroscedasticity, serial correlation, moderate levels of endogeneity and cross-sectional dependence (CSD).

Disability and disaster risk reduction as an incongruent matrix: Lessons from rural Zimbabwe.

The policy thrust of disaster risk reduction initiatives is in many instances tailored towards able-bodied people. This is at the expense of those challenged in many facets such as physically, mentally and other forms of disability. The suggestion for disability to be mainstreamed into disaster risk reduction initiatives has been made imperative by the late shift in hazard and disaster thinking at local, national and international levels.

Indigenous food security revival strategies at the village level: The gender factor implications.

This article is based on an evaluation concerning the practice of the Zunde raMambo concept (commonly referred to as Zunde) in four of Zimbabwe's 52 districts; (Mangwe, Lupane, Guruve and Hwedza). is a social security system providing protection against food shortages to vulnerable families and is coordinated by chiefs. The concept identifies with Ndebele and Shona rural communities in Zimbabwe.