Hard Times Matabeleland: urban deindustrialization and rural hunger
- Publisher:
- Solidarity Peace Trust
- Publication Date:
- 2 November 2011
- Tags:
- Zimbabwe, Food and Agriculture
Nationally, Zimbabwe is more food secure at the end of 2011 than it has been for several years. However, parts of Zimbabwe suffered serious crop failure earlier this year and a million people are still predicted to need supplementary feeding. In Gwanda, Matabeleland South, the authors found that almost half of households indicated a day without food in the recent past.
