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Climate Change Workshop A Success |
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Chemist Gumbie, the Acting Secretary for Environment and Natural Resources Management opening the workshop
By Sifelani Tsiko
Community Technology Development Trust successfully held a national workshop on climate change in November that discussed wide-ranging issues that tackled a number of climate change related topics.
The workshop was held under the theme: “Is Zimbabwe already Experiencing Climate Change and What Could the Impact of this be on Agricultural Biodiversity, Food Production and Food Security.”
The event was attended by key stakeholders from Government, NGOs, rural communities, academic institutions and other individuals who listened to key experts on climate change and agriculture and took part in a lively discussion about growing climate change related problems.
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Making a Good Case for the Cash-For-Work Program |
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By Sifelani Tsiko
The RSF – MAP Cash-for-Work program helped put cash in the rural people’s pockets enabling them to clear outstanding school fees as well as meeting their medical bills.
Hilton Mbozi, the CTDT – RSF – MAP co-ordinator said the Cash-for-Work program was designed to get rural people in Mudzi and Mutoko to be involved in dam and spillway rebilitation, canal and irrigation repair, gulley reclaimation as well as in scaling up their nutrition garden activities.
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Training Manual on Access to Genetic Resources and Sharing their Benefits |
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CTDT and its partners published a Training Manual on Access to Genetic Resources and the Sharing of Benefits arising from their Use (ABS). You can download it here! |
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The Charming Chesango Community |
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By Sifelani Tsiko
The charming Chesango Village community in the Kachimana area of Mudzi can be described as the epitome of self reliance and resilience.
Without any support from government and NGOs, they started mobilising themselves to rehabilitate the Chesango Dam to improve water availability in this drought-prone part of the country.
They scooped sand from the dam on their own and mobilised every villager to bring rock stones for gulley reclamation and for spillway reconstruction.
“We started this work without any support from donors,” said Headman Kenias Chesango. “It was our own pure commitment. We were motivated into this after realising that water shortages were becoming serious in our area. Our goats, cattle, sheep, pigs and us as human were being affected.”
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Bread for the World & Partners |
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STATEMENT issued by EED, Bread for the World & Partners at the FAO World Food Summit ROME, ITALY, November 18 2009
We the EED, Bread for the World and partner organizations gathered here to attend the Peoples Food Sovereignty of Civil Society Organizations (CSO) to the World Summit on Food Security from 13th to the 17th of November 2009 in Rome, Italy, noted with concern the absence of key Heads of States and Government from developed countries, limited budgetary commitments to the agricultural sector by developing countries governments and increased food insecurity, hunger crisis and malnutrition. Recalling commitments of the Millennium Development Goals and the World Food Summits of 1996 and 2002 to halve the number of people suffering from hunger and poverty by 2015, we are concerned that the number of the chronically hungry people has increased to over one billion worldwide.
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