HARARE - Fifteen years after Zimbabwe's agriculture sector collapsed in the face of President Robert Mugabe's seizure of white-owned farms, its tobacco industry is again booming, with black farmers ...

Zimbabwean farmer Brighton Zambezi rears chicken at his backyard farm in Harare's Sunningdale. (Photo by Farai Shawn Matiashe) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or ...

When Francine Mashimango fled violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with her nine children in 2018, she never imagined that a few years later, she would be supporting her family by ...

When 36-year-old Baldwin Mazango started farming in 2012 in Mazowe, eastern Zimbabwe, he had land on which he could plant just 22 potato seed lines, each 15m long – something he now jokes about to ...

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 ...

I am a member of the Missionary Daughters of Calvary, an international congregation in Zimbabwe. I was born into a family of nine: five girls and four boys. We had two sets of twins, and I was ...

Farmers in Zimbabwe are pivoting from the country’s traditional staple crops like corn to a new lucrative crop—hemp production. Leaders in the country, however, are more worried about any disruptions ...

(RNS) — When farmer Craig Deall first caught wind of Brian Oldreive’s no-plowing approach to farming in the 1980s, he dismissed it as lunacy. But the results were undeniable. “Seeing is believing,” ...

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe - F or many years, Miriam Hlabangana, a farmer in Gwanda, about 150 kilometers south of Bulawayo, planted and harvested enough maize to not only feed her family but sell some excess ...

The government has reaffirmed its commitment to transforming agriculture through climate-resilient technologies, irrigation ...

TONGOGARA CAMP, Zimbabwe (UNHCR) - Permaculture is a difficult word, but to the children in Tongogara refugee camp, it spells: maize, beans, sweet potatoes, carrots, pumpkins, onions, pawpaws, oranges ...