Zimbabwe

Dry and Hungry

Unprecedented drought and a tumbling economy have left half the population without enough food.
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Full-Blown Humanitarian Crisis

Zimbabwe’s hunger emergency is driven by climate change and economic collapse. It has the highest inflation rate in the world and is gripped by drought. There are fuel shortages, widespread poverty, a lack of clean drinking water, power outages, and now coronavirus on top of it. Today, 7.7 million people are in the throes of hunger. WFP is rapidly ramping up its emergency assistance to reach as many as 4.1 million of the hardest hit families.

Causes of Hunger

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How Climate is Hindering Progress

Zimbabwe, Hwange district, 20 January 2016

Charles Muzamba, a beneficiary of WFP’s Lean Season Assistance in Hwange district, stands in front of his empty field that should have crops at least a meter high by this time in the season.

Photo: WFP/Sophia Robele
Withered Crops
Charles Muzamba, a beneficiary of WFP’s Lean Season Assistance program, stands in front of his empty field that should have crops at least a meter high by this time in the season.
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Zimbabwe, Hwange district, 19 January 2016

In the Photo: Right: Tondeka dam, now with water too low to reach the catchment.
The dam was created or rehabilitated through WFP’s Productive Asset Creation programme projects in Hwange, and had served as key sources of water for the community.

Photo: WFP/Sophia Robele
Dry Dams
This dam was built through WFP’s Productive Asset Creation program and had served as a key source of water for the community. It’s water is now too low to reach the catchment.
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Zimbabwe, Hwange district, 20 January 2016

Dinde garden in Makwonda reveals the fruits of continued community efforts to make the most of available resources. Last year, the garden was expanded by some 150 workers, who received food assistance for their entire households in exchange for their labour on the garden between June and November 2015 as part of WFP’s Productive Assets Creation programme. 
Through the rehabilitation or creation of community assets such as gardens or small irrigation schemes, the programme aims to promote early recovery, reduce disaster risk, and increase the capacity of communities to manage shocks and meet their food and nutrition needs.

Photo: WFP/Sophia Robele
Struggling Farmers
More than two-thirds of Zimbabweans are subsistence farmers who rely on a single, increasingly unreliable rainy season to grow corn. WFP is actively promoting a transition to more nutritious, indigenous and drought-resistant crops like sorghum and millet.
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