ZIMBABWE has embraced climate-smart livestock farming as part of broader efforts to curb methane emissions, strengthen farmer livelihoods and enhance national food security. Livestock farming is the ...

NKAYI, Zimbabwe - Ntokozo Ncube brims with joy like a proud father as he shows off a newborn calf that has expanded his herd to eight animals. The calf is a special cross-breed that is helping Ncube, ...

NYANGAMBE, Zimbabwe (AP) — At first, the suggestion to try farming maggots spooked Mari Choumumba and other farmers in Nyangambe, a region in southeastern Zimbabwe where drought wiped out the staple ...

During my long-term fieldwork in Matobo district there was constant discussion of supernatural beliefs concerning livestock. I have always been dismissive of these beliefs, thinking that they were ...

Zimbabwe’s slow recovery from years of economic depression has suffered a terrible blow from recurrent droughts halving the expected production of 742,000 tons of the main staple, maize, this year. It ...

Every day, Takawira Mudzviti takes his six herd of cattle to his village's last drinking point, a dam along the dried-up Mudzi River. The Chibundu Dam, at its lowest levels in the past 20 years ...