Abstract:
Climate change has become a public concern with governments and global governing organisations such as the
United Nations setting goals aimed at reducing its adverse impacts on public and poor smallholder farmers in
developing countries. The article aims to provide an overview of climatesmart agriculture in Zimbabwe. Climate
change has disrupted livelihoods in the country as the economy has always been agrarian-backed. In this article,
we set out to understand the lessons relating to ways of reducing the adverse impacts wrought out by climate
change drawn from World Vision Programming since 2000. It makes the argument that lack of technology and
institutional support has been the main hindrance to the adoption of climate-smart agriculture. Moreover, the
article makes the argument that climate-smart agriculture suffered a stillbirth in Zimbabwe due to lack of
information dissemination to farmers and targeted beneficiaries. The study utilised a qualitative research
methodology with a bias towards a case study research design. The study discovered that climate-smart agriculture
has had an impact on the agricultural sector with the use of irrigation systems and the adoption of cash crop
farming in Zimbabwe.
Description:
The journal is a forum for the discussion of ideas, scholarly opinions and case studies of leadership,
development and governance at local, national and supranational levels and also coming from across
various sectors of the economy. It is premised on the idea that leadership is meant to create anticipated futures by leaders. Development is a revelationist endeavour that must be governed well for the sake of
intergenerational equity. The journal is produced bi-annually.
