Food Security Framework | Key Population Groups

Poor rural households that are staple cereal deficit.

Broad Livelihood Zones
  • Households in the agro ecological regions IV and V (map below) that do not own livestock (cattle, goats, sheep, or pigs) and/or have incomes, including remittances, that are below the food poverty line.
  • Households with high dependency ratios that could be child headed, headed by the aged, disabled, and/or chronically ill. These households usually have more than two orphans.
  • Households in the high potential agricultural areas of the country that do not have access to productive assets (land, draft power, ploughs), agricultural inputs (seeds, fertilizers, manure) and/or have incomes (including remittances) that are below the food poverty line.
  • The two broad groups identified above include the internally displaced population who were affected by the fast-track land redistribution program in 2002 and the Murambatsvina ?clean-up? operation in 2005.

Low income urban households whose incomes are below the food poverty line.

  • These populations are predominantly found in the high density suburbs and the peri-urban areas around major cities and towns.
  • They also include a proportion of the internally displaced populations.

 

 
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