The impact of migratory practices on food security and asset accumulation in Zimbabwe: a study

Mazwi, Freedom

doi:10.1080/19376812.2021.1883076

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“…Remitting also initially increases and then declines with increasing length of time since first migration (Makina & Masenge, 2015). Zimbabwean households sending migrants are heavily dependent on remittances from abroad (Bracking & Sachikonye, 2010; Maphosa, 2007; Mazwi, 2022; Muzapu & Havadi, 2021; Ncube & Gomez, 2015; Nyikahadzoi et al, 2019; Nzima et al, 2017). Remittances are spent predominantly on livelihood needs such as housing, food purchase, medical treatment, transportation, clothing, and children’s education.…”

Section: Pre-covid Migration and Remittancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Disruptions in the South Africa–Zimbabwe Remittance Corridor During COVID-19

Crush,

Tawodzera

2023

Migration and Development

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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant remittances has generated a great deal of confusion and debate. This article aims to test three conflicting global and local narratives about the relationship between the pandemic and remittance flows in the South Africa–Zimbabwe remittance corridor. We refer to these as remittance pessimism, remittance resilience and remittance rerouting narratives. The article presents the pre-pandemic background context of migration from Zimbabwe to South Africa, the evidence for a shift from informal to formal remitting during the pandemic, and the implications of the remittance rerouting narrative for other corridors. We find that many Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa experienced severe economic impacts including unemployment, income loss and lack of access to COVID-19 relief measures. We conclude that there was a significant increase in formal, primarily digital, remittances during the pandemic and a decline in informal remittance conveyance. We highlight the need for more research in other remittance corridors to identify similarities and differences between them in terms of COVID-19 impacts and the shift from informal to formal remittances enabled by digital platforms.

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Section: Pre-covid Migration and Remittancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Disruptions in the South Africa–Zimbabwe Remittance Corridor During COVID-19

Crush,

Tawodzera

2023

Migration and Development

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“…However, A2 farmers are also heterogeneous, as some also face challenges in accessing credit facilities and produce far less than others . As they are less favoured by government policy, accessing only the presidential input scheme which supports the production of maize, and more recently as availed through the Pfumvudza programme, smallholders in the A1 and CA models are less endowed with productive assets and tend to rely on personal savings, remittances and the reinvestment of proceeds from the sale of agricultural produce (Shonhe and Mtapuri, 2020;Mazwi, 2021). The reliance on precarious sources of funding by smallholder farmers and the production of crops that are less common on the commodity markets increases their vulnerability and reduces the scope for their resilience.…”

Section: Politics Access Climate Change Resilience and Smart Croppingmentioning

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Commercial Tobacco Production and Climate Change Adaptation in Mazowe, Zimbabwe

Newsham¹,

Shonhe²,

Bvute³

2021

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There has been an increasingly well-documented, rapid rise in tobacco production over the last couple of decades in Mazowe, Zimbabwe, despite growing public health concerns about lung cancer and nicotine’s addictive capacities in the wealthier countries of the West – even affecting the South African market. This has been accompanied by a shift away from its production almost completely on large-scale farms towards predominantly small-scale farms. To date, less consideration has been given to the implications of climate change for tobacco production. Given the hopes that it can make a serious contribution to poverty reduction and food security, it is of increasing importance to understand these implications, to identify the most relevant and/or effective adaptation options and to assess the viability of their successful adoption. This paper presents a fine-grained, qualitative bottom-up analysis of the implications for commercial tobacco production of climate change impacts in Zimbabwe.

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The impact of migratory practices on food security and asset accumulation in Zimbabwe: a study

Cited by 2 publications

References 30 publications

Digital Disruptions in the South Africa–Zimbabwe Remittance Corridor During COVID-19

Digital Disruptions in the South Africa–Zimbabwe Remittance Corridor During COVID-19

Commercial Tobacco Production and Climate Change Adaptation in Mazowe, Zimbabwe

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