Climate-smart agricultural practices among rural farmers in Masvingo district of Zimbabwe: perspectives on the mitigation strategies to drought and water scarcity for …

TA Mpala, MD Simatele - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Climate change is one of the most significant challenges many rural farmers face in sub-
Saharan Africa, as most agricultural practices are rainfed dependent. Many of these rural …

Indigenous knowledge system weather forecasts as a climate change adaptation strategy in smallholder farming systems of Zimbabwe: Case study of Murehwa …

G Soropa, S Gwatibaya, K Musiyiwa… - African Journal of …, 2015 - academicjournals.org
The smallholder sector is vulnerable to climate change due to its reliance on rainfed
agriculture and has the least ability to adapt. Based on appropriate weather forecasts …

Perceived impacts of climate variability and change: an exploration of farmers' adaptation strategies in Zimbabwe's intensive farming region

E Mavhura, T Manyangadze, KR Aryal - GeoJournal, 2022 - Springer
Climate variability and change (CVC) affect many economic sectors including agriculture. In
order to alleviate the negative impact of CVC on food production, farmers must adopt a …

[HTML][HTML] Indigenous environmental indicators for malaria: a district study in Zimbabwe

M Macherera, MJ Chimbari, S Mukaratirwa - Acta tropica, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper discusses indigenous environmental indicators for the occurrence of malaria in
ward 11, 15 and 18 of Gwanda district, Zimbabwe. The study was inspired by the successes …

Trends in climate variables (temperature and rainfall) and local perceptions of climate change in Lamu, Kenya

M Yvonne, G Ouma, D Olago, M Opondo - Geography, Environment …, 2020 - ges.rgo.ru
Community adaptation to the negative impacts of climate change benefits from an analysis
of both the trends in climate variables and people's perception of climate change. This paper …

Forty years of climate risk research in Zimbabwe–1980–2021

N Dube - Development Southern Africa, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Identifying sound strategies to manage climate risks requires understanding complex
systems, characterised by; a large number of potential factors that interact; multiple …

Command agriculture and food security: An interrogation of state intervention in the post-fast track land redistribution Era in Zimbabwe

L Makuwerere Dube - Journal of Asian and African Studies, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Command agriculture is a contract farming scheme necessitated by land redistribution that
ruptured Zimbabwe's sources of resilience, distorted credit access, heightened tenure …

Developing a community-centred malaria early warning system based on indigenous knowledge: Gwanda District, Zimbabwe

M Macherera, MJ Chimbari - Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk …, 2016 - journals.co.za
Malaria continues to be a major public health problem in Sub-Saharan Africa despite efforts
that have been made to prevent and control the disease for many decades. The knowledge …

Nostalgia, Scapegoating, and Alterity Politics. An analysis of the Albatross Undercutting Zimbabwe's Leverage of Bilateral Relations with China

L Makuwerere Dube - Journal of Asian and African Studies, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The article explores the interplay of nostalgia, scapegoating, and alterity politics within the
context of China–Zimbabwe relations. Grounded in postcolonial critique, constructivism, and …

[PDF][PDF] Indigenous-based practices of adapting to climate change: Reflections from Chirumhanzu, Zimbabwe

A Manyani, K Chagweda, C Muzenda-Mudavanhu… - 2017 - academia.edu
The relevance of indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) in climate science is increasingly
being given some attention. This study uses the indigenous-based knowledge, experiences …