CITING EXAMPLES DISCUSS HOW SUSTAINABLE OF RESOURCES CAN ACT AS

A SOLUTION TO END FOOD INSECURITY IN ZIMBABWE.

Food insecurity exists when people do not have physical, social and economic access to food in
order to achieve an active and healthy life.

Sustainable of resources can act as solution to end food insecurity in Zimbabwe, in 2016 the
Government launched the Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (IPRSP) 2016 to 2018. The
IPRSP largely focusses on macro-economic targets, including reducing the current account
deficit from over 20% to below 10% of GDP. The Strategy assumption is that better
macroeconomic stability will ultimately reduce poverty levels, however IPRSP has been
criticized for neglecting a social agenda as the social programs have been affected by financial
cuts in order to address the deficit.

Conservation Agriculture is a farming system that maintains a permanent soil cover to assure its
protection, avoids soil tillage, and cultivates a diverse range of plant species to improve soil
conditions, reduce land degradation and increase water and nutrient use efficiency and it
enhances biodiversity and natural biological processes above and below the ground surface for
improved and sustained crop productivity.

Rain water harvesting is another way that has been adopted in Zimbabwe buy most farmers and
communal residence in trying to end food insecurity in a way that it reduces soil erosion in their
fields through harvesting runoff water, not only water and soil conservation benefits from rain
water harvesting but also groundwater recharge that later helps in watering of vegetables. In
addition, rain water harvesting increase pasture quality hence improving livestock quality.

The conservation agriculture impacts achieved in improving food security for poorer farmers in
the semi-arid region of Zimbabwe need to be protected, sustained, and promoted so that more
smallholder households benefit from the technology.

Command agriculture is a rural development strategy adopted by the Government of Zimbabwe

as one of several strategies in its broad land reform policy framework. The scheme was endorsed
by the government during the 2015 to 2016 farming season, and it was meant to mobilise
sustainable and affordable funding for the agricultural sector. The aim was to allow farmers to
benefit from their agricultural inputs and to boost the production of strategic crops to restore
sanity in the provision of adequate food and nutrition to the rural populace (Chisango 2018).