Zimbabwe gender assessment
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
Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwe: Govt Drafts Poverty Reduction Strategy
Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa said yesterday the Government is developing a two-year poverty reduction strategy whose focus has been limited to a few sectors due to lack of
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Zimbabwe: Trade Unions Embrace Climate Change
Tanzania: Newly-Appointed Ports Authority Board Aims Higher Revenue Collection Target South Africa: Trade and Industry Hosts Economic Policy Dialogue On Localisation, 24 Jun TRADE unions in Africa are
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Legal ivory sale drove dramatic increase in elephant poaching, study shows
A huge legal sale of ivory intended to cut elephant poaching instead catastrophically backfired by dramatically increasing elephant deaths, according to new research. The revelation comes just months
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Zimbabwe: Tobacco Farmers Destroy 50 000ha Forests Annually
Tobacco farmers across the country destroy about 50 000 hectares of forested land to cure the crop every year, a senior Forestry Commission official has said. In an interview on Friday last week, Forestry
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Zimbabwe lobbies neighbors on ivory trade, will not burn stocks
Zimbabwe is seeking support from its neighbors to be allowed to engage in international trade in ivory and will not burn its 70 tonnes of ivory stocks as Kenya did last month, the environment minister
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How to grow food in drought-hit Zimbabwe? Add irrigation
CHIPINGE, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Several rivers pass from Zimbabwe's lush Eastern highlands through the lowlands of drought-hit Chipinge, Mutare and Chimanimani districts. But while river
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Zimbabwe: Climate Change Eroding Value of Heritage Sites
WORLD Heritage Sites like the iconic Great Zimbabwe Monument and the splendid Victoria Falls are coming under severe pressure from climate change, threatening to erode the sites' outstanding universal
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Zimbabwe: Cyanide Poisoning Claims Five More Jumbos
Five elephants were killed last week by poachers using cyanide in Matabeleland North, Forestry Commission information and communications manager Ms Violet Makoto has said. In a statement, Ms Makoto
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Zimbabwe wants to end international ban on ivory sales
Zimbabwe will push for the lifting of an international ban on ivory sales, saying that limited sales would allow the government to raise money for conservation and to fight illegal poaching. The southern
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Zimbabwe: Stop Aiding Deforestation, Forestry Firm Told
Hurungwe Rural District Council in Mashonaland West has for the second time accused the Forestry Company of Zimbabwe (FCZ) of facilitating deforestation by unprocedurally issuing wood permits to tobacco