Zimbabwe food security improves

THE United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s food security arm, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fewsnet) has projected the number of people in need of food assistance in Zimbabwe to be lower in January next year.
The 2022-2023 harvest saw the country achieving a bumper harvest leading to improved household food access and increasing market supplies of staple grains, particularly maize, in most markets.
The Southern African country had its largest corn crop in more than three decades of 2,8 million tonnes in 2020-21, while last year’s output was 2,2 million tonnes.