Living from Day to Day”

In Zimbabwe, unpredictable conditions associated with structural and institutional factors exacerbated the combined effects of structural violence, economic and political instability, and climate change in the mid 2000s, contributing to widespread food insecurity. Drought, food shortages, and government settlement policy affecting both rural and urban populations has yielded a national human rights crisis. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Mutare, southeast Zimbabwe, in 2005-2006, the authors illustrate the flow-on effects of drought and government policy on the livelihoods of households already suffering as a result of the social impacts of AIDS, and how people in a regional city responded to these factors, defining and meeting their basic food needs in diverse ways

Agriculture · Coping (psychology · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic shortage · Economics · Food insecurity · Food security · Geography · Government (linguistics · Livelihood · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Socioeconomics · Structural violence · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Psychology · Urban and Rural Development Challenges

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