Title:
ASSESSING THE COPYING MECHANISMS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE IN ZVISHAVANE- MAZVIHWA

Authors:
Ephraim Maruta ,Munyaradzi Phiri and Genius Tevera , Zimbabwe

Abstract:
Climate change has been a subject that has caused a lot of debate and concern the world over. Most scholars have contemplated on the causes, effects and results of this phenomenon. The Food and Agriculture Organization posits that climate change affects agriculture and food production in complex ways. It affects food production directly through changes in agroecological conditions and indirectly by affecting growth and distribution of incomes, and thus demand for agricultural produce. This paper seeks to illustrate copy mechanisms that have been adopted by the Zimbabwean population in the Mazvihwa area as result of climate change. The researchers used mixed scanning methods involving interviews, questionnaires and desktop researches in data acquisition. This study becomes relevant in a Zimbabwe that has struggled with food security since time immemorial, as the affected have started taking the matter into ‘their own hands.