{"id":183091,"date":"2024-10-23T00:37:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T22:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-pfumvudza-zunde-ramambo-pioneering-food-security-in-zimbabwe\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T00:37:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T22:37:35","slug":"zimbabwe-pfumvudza-zunde-ramambo-pioneering-food-security-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-pfumvudza-zunde-ramambo-pioneering-food-security-in-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Pfumvudza, Zunde Ramambo &#8211; Pioneering Food Security in Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The agricultural sector has long been the backbone of Zimbabwe&#8217;s economy, supporting livelihoods and driving economic growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">However, dependence on rain-fed agriculture has made it vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change, including erratic rainfall, prolonged dry spells, and extreme weather patterns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">To address these challenges, the Government initiated two transformative programmes during the 2020\/21 season: the Pfumvudza\/Intwasa climate-proofed agricultural initiative and the Zunde&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410220286.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The agricultural sector has long been the backbone of Zimbabwe&#8217;s economy, supporting livelihoods and driving economic growth. However, dependence on rain-fed agriculture has made it vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change, including erratic rainfall, prolonged dry spells, and extreme weather patterns. To address these challenges, the Government initiated two transformative programmes during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,5074,257,35356,11862,49600,4586,254,4686,421,10483],"class_list":["post-183091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-food","tag-news","tag-pfumvudza","tag-pioneering","tag-ramambo","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zunde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}