Mafongoya, Owen(Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, 2013-07)
The study investigated the contribution of SAT’s agricultural intervention in ward 21 of Bikita in an attempt to improve food security to this drought-prone area. The research was largely premised on qualitative methodology ...
Nhodo Lloyd, Lloyd; Mafongoya, Owen; Dube Kiriana, Kiriana(Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology, 2014-04)
This treatise argues that instead of being the panacea to food security quagmires bedeviling communities,
irrigation at Rupike is marred with a plethora of challenges due to differential lifeworlds. This has resulted in ...
Food insecurity is a devastating setback for vulnerable women in smallholder farming in Zimbabwe. Women’s low or limited adaptive capacity is caused by diverse factors, including, which include poverty, an unstable economy, ...
The use of indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) in seasonal forecasting and adaptation to devastating vagaries of climate change has gained attention in academic discourses. The debates opened contrasting views with the first ...
Mafongoya, Owen(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2018)
Climate change and variability have serious threats on rainfed agriculture in Zimbabwe. Poor and vulnerable smallholder farmers are facing serious food insecurity. Vulnerability to droughts is worsened by poverty, limited ...
Nhodo, Lloyd; Mafongoya, Owen; Gukurume, Simbarashe(Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, 2013-04)
This study builds on earlier research done by the researchers in Chivi South district on the impact of conservation farming on food security. The major focus of this study however is on the conflicts and contradictions ...
Nhodo, Lloyd; Dube, Charles; Mafongoya, Owen(International Journal of Politics and Good Governance, 2012)
The ensuing study dwells on the micro-politics embedded in the implementation of conservation farming as a new farming technology to ameliorate the catastrophic effects of incessant droughts as well as the threats posed ...