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Title: | Lessons from the 1992 Drought in Zimbabwe: The Quest for Alternative Food Policies |
Author: | Maphosa, B. |
Year: | 1994 |
Periodical: | Nordic Journal of African Studies |
Volume: | 3 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 53-58 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | food policy droughts Drought and Desertification Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology |
External link: | https://njas.fi/njas/article/view/700/523 |
Abstract: | The 1992 drought in Zimbabwe was recorded as the worst drought in living memory. Until then, Zimbabwe was known as the breadbasket of southern Africa, but the 1992 drought transformed the country into a net food importer. A number of factors contributed to food shortages in 1992: pricing policies, inequalities within farming communities, low rainfall in the previous two years and the lack of irrigation infrastructure, the land resettlement policy which was initiated in 1982, and the lack of a food stocks policy. Alternative food strategies should emphasize the importance of a national reserve food stock, the production of drought tolerant food crops such as millet and sorghum, the reform of the resettlement programme, the adoption of modern farming methods by smallholders, and conservation measures. |