Climate change threatens maize output
Speaking at the Stress Tolerant Maize for Africa (STMA) project annual meeting yesterday in Harare, Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement minister, Perrance Shiri said climate change has brought increased
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‘Zimbabwe unlikely to end Aids by 2030’
Piot, whose visit to the country has been necessitated by the Biomedical Research and Training Institute, said there was an impending bulge of an adolescence population and there was need to expedite research
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$8m afforestation funds lie idle
THE $8 million collected by Treasury for the Afforestation Fund in 2015 by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) and deposited into the Tobacco Industry Marketing Board (TIMB) account has not yet been
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Marange villagers take on mining giant
Mining companies commit environmental crimes such as contamination of water bodies with chemicals such as cyanide and mercury and air pollution caused by blasting and chimney smoke Mining companies
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14% of Zim adults HIV positive: Zimphia
The survey, conducted between October 2015 and August 2016, however, noted a decrease in HIV prevalence countrywide. “Fourteen percent of Zimbabwean adults are HIV positive. HIV prevalence is higher
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Gold rush fever among poor Zimbabweans leaves trail of destruction
Peasant miners have set up makeshift mines on farmland and timber plantations in the country’s eastern provinces, which border Mozambique where gold fetches a higher price. Deep tunnels have been dug
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Insiza villagers in climate adaptation farming programme
Farmers at Gcabayi and Amazon A and B villages, under Chief Bekezela Sibasa, are among those who have ventured into drought mitigation programmes implemented through Environment Africa, Dabani Trust and