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By Ndatenda Njanike
THE Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) says nearly 2.4 million locals living in the country’s towns and cities struggled to meet their basic food needs over the past year.
In a situational report, ZimVAC said the peak was the cause of the ripple effect of Covid-19 induced lockdowns which were aimed as preventing the rapid spread of the pandemic.
“Hunger in Zimbabwe’s urban areas has increased over the past year with 2.4 million people now struggling to meet their basic food needs,” reads the report in part.
The report was coordinated by the Food and Nutrition Council.
by Taruberekera Masara in Pretoria
Food security has been an issue of interest and for long hasn’t been addressed, this has in turn resulted in food injustices in the communities.
Zimbabwe is a highly unequal country suffering from a vacuum of leadership, failed economics, colonialism and entrenched patriarchy, the most vulnerable in our society are bearing the brunt of these crises.
By and large women and children, in particular, live at the intersection of multiple crises and also act as shock absorbers for their communities.
Hunger as a case in point.
According to Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee ZimVAC: “nearly 3.4 million people in rural areas are projected to face Crisis or Emergency (IPC Phase 3 or above) food insecurity at the peak of the 2020/2021 lean season (January-March) and 2.3 million people in urban communities are estimated to be food insecure in 2021, according to the latest Integrated Phase Classification (IPC)”,
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