Category: Newspaper Articles

Making marginalised farmers ready for the impact of globalisation   Charles DhewaALTHOUGH digital technology is beginning to show potential for increasing the impact of individual knowledge, in most African marginalised communities, community knowledge will remain important for a long time. Unfortunately, many development interventions are meddling with African communities’ capacity to make sense of knowledge. …

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VP Mohadi summons Tongaat Hulett over challenges afflicting industry   Vice President Kembo Mohadi Tawanda Mangoma in ChiredziVice President Kembo Mohadi has summoned management at Lowveld sugar producer Tongaat Hulett Zimbabwe for direct and frank negotiations to discuss challenges afflicting the industry. Tongaat is one of the country’s biggest employers with over 15 000 permanent …

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Small-scale projects vital for water resources and infrastructure development   Source: Small-scale projects vital for water resources and infrastructure development | Newsday (News) TODAY and tomorrow could prove to be important and mark a milestone regarding the direction Zimbabwe will take when it comes to investing in water resources and infrastructural development. By Peter Makwanya The …

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Hunger strikes in parts of Zim   Source: Hunger strikes in parts of Zim | Daily News HARARE – Poor households in the southern, western and far northern regions of Zimbabwe will need food assistance up to next month with the situation getting worse thereafter, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fewsnet) has said. In its latest …

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Pig farmers ‘pray’ as Tiger Brands shuts plants after deaths Ntando Thukwana and Odwa Mjo, Bloomberg The People First Piggery in the gritty South African mining city of Rustenburg used to slaughter 150 pigs each month. It’s now down to zero. Three months after South Africa linked products from a factory owned by Tiger Brands, …

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Parly approves $15m irrigation loan  Tabitha Mutenga Staff Reporter PARLIAMENT has approved a $15 mil­lion loan to support smallholder irriga­tion projects.  The loan, advanced by the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), aims to re­duce rural poverty and enhance food security for 25 000 small-scale, low-income farming households in rural Manicaland, Masvingo, the Midlands and …

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Getting the govt on track regarding cannabis debate   A four – point landscape analysis on getting government back on track regarding the Cannabis debate. By Gloria Ndoro-Mkombachoto It is always a breath of fresh air when government acknowledges publicly that they made public a policy that they had poorly conceived. It was a relief …

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Methane gas won’t derail climate goals — Zhakata   The Herald Jeffrey Gogo Climate StoryZimbabwe’s climate change head Washington Zhakata has rejected claims that using coal-bed methane gas to generate electricity will derail the country’s climate goals. Speaking to The Herald Business, Mr Zhakata stressed that coalbed methane — a gas trapped in the coal …

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