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Urban food security assessment: January 2009 national report
Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC)
January 2009

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Preface

Since the year 2000, Zimbabwe has been experiencing economic and humanitarian challenges resulting from a complex web of overlapping factors, some of which include erratic weather patterns; hyperinflation; shrinking economy and a receding international community. This has induced severe hardships on the already impoverished households resulting in worsening vulnerability for both rural and urban populace.

The 2003 Poverty Assessment Study Survey (PASS II) results showed an increase in poverty at national level and in both rural and urban areas. The decline of the Zimbabwean economy points to a rapidly deteriorating food security situation in the urban areas.

Against this background and the growing need of understanding how the urban poor are coping with the current food security challenges, an Urban Food Security Assessment was conducted by the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) in January 2009. This report summarizes the findings of the 2009 ZimVAC Urban Food Security Assessment.

The timing of the survey could not have been any better as its results come at time when the Political leadership of Zimbabwe has worked out a political accord that promises to usher in a favourable atmosphere wherein humanitarian actors and the state will be able to work together in mitigating the effects of the multi-dimensional crisis.

It is the hope of ZimVAC that this report does not resemble a mere compilation of words and figures but rather a planning tool for stakeholders in formulation of appropriate interventions to address the food insecurity problem facing the urban poor.

ZimVAC would like to take this opportunity to express sincere appreciation to all who contributed to the success of the assessment and production of this report.

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