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    Urban agriculture and food security in Zimbabwe. The case of Harare.
    (University if Fort Hare, 2017-11) Chikondowa Prosper. 0
    This study seeks to evaluate the role of urban agriculture on food security in Zimbabwe. The study was motivated by the fact that food security is a great challenge in Zimbabwe and it seems as if the government is running out of ideas and policies to curb this challenge mostly in urban areas. Misaligned macroeconomic policies such as Economic Structural Adjustment Programme and Fast Track Land Reform Programme forced industrial closure which caused high retrenchment, unemployment, underemployment and low wages. Urban agriculture has been used by many countries mostly in the north as a way of livelihood and it has been successful. However, it has struggled for policy attention as a developmental strategy in developing countries, particularly in Zimbabwe. This has been promoted by the government's failure to acknowledge it as a means of living. The statutory and legal framework is the main challenge facing urban agriculture. On the methodological lens, the study adopted the quantitative research methodology. Data was collected through the use of questionnaires using a sample of sixty households.