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Strategies For Coping With Food Deficits In Rural Zimbabwe
(Geographical Association of Zimbabwe (GAZ), 1989-12)
The resourcefulness of African smallholders in the face of recurrent food deficits is often overlooked by professionals and officials concerned with food security. Food scarcity has provoked a wide range of interventions ...
Rural poverty: challenges and opportunities
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications., 2006)
In the 1990 income and expenditure surveys, the Central Statistics Office estimated that 40 per cent of Zimbabwe’s population (4.2 million people) were poor and 17 per cent were very poor (CSO, 1990). By the mid-1990s a ...
The nature and measurement of poverty and the role of minimum budgets in Southern Africa: a review of 'The urban poverty datum line in Rhodesia'
(Rhodesian Economic Society (RES). University of Rhodesia (now University of Zimbabwe.), 1975-06)
The serious reviewer of a new minimum budget study in Southern Africa at the present time has a responsibility to examine not only how good a study is the latest contribution but also the role being played by minimum budgets ...
Rural Household Studies In Zimbabwe: A Review
(Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension (AEE); University of Zimbabwe, 1995-03)
Many perhaps most households in rural Africa have grown poorer over the last decade. The World Bank, for example, estimates that by the end of the century the number of people in poverty in Sub- Saharan Africa will have ...
International Technology Transfer And The African Farmer: Theory And Practice
(Department of Land Management (DLM) ; University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1984-05)
Africa is now at the center of the world food and hunger discussions because there is growing support for the view that the basic problem - the food production gap - has been building up for .several decades and it will ...
Housing Problems And Self-help Solutions In The Third World
(Geographical Association of Zimbabwe (GAZ), 1984-09)
The first stage is to define what 'is meant by the term 'housing problem’. The 'problem’ is that of the groups living in urban areas who are commonly identified as the urban poor. Hence, the stress will be laid upon the ...
Language, Science,Technology, Mathematics (STM) and Poverty Alleviation in Africa: A Case for Nigeria
(Human Resources Research Centre (HRRC); University of Zimbabwe, 2008-03)
This paper seeks to highlight the power of language in poverty eradication. In doing so, the paper examines the concept and causes of poverty and draws attention specifically to the relationship between language power and ...
Essay Review: Famine in Zimbabwe
(University of Zimbabwe (UZ) Publications., 1990)
The major arguments of this attractively written and easily comprehensible publication are: pre-colonial famines did not normally cause mass starvation and were not responsible for the low population before 1900. Under ...
The Problem of Urban Squatting in African Countries — with a Special Focus on Nairobi (Kenya) and Harare (Zimbabwe)
(Faculty of Law, University of Zimbabwe (UZ), 1993)
Urban squatter settlements are an increasingly prevalent phenomenon in many parts of the Third World countries as they hold substantial proportions of their populations. For example, it has been estimated that more than ...
The Struggle for Shelter in an Urbanizing World: A Rhodesian Example
(UZ Publications (formerly University College of Rhodesia ), 1977)
During September-October 1976 a squatter settlement of some 2 600 families mushroomed on Derbyshire Estate, European land located 16 km from the centre of Salisbury. A combined exercise by the municipality and government ...