{"id":96260,"date":"2024-07-08T09:27:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T07:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/livestock-poverty-death-grips-zim"},"modified":"2024-07-08T11:39:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T09:39:12","slug":"livestock-poverty-death-grips-zim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/livestock-poverty-death-grips-zim","title":{"rendered":"Livestock poverty death grips Zim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>LIVESTOCK poverty deaths are expected to peak before the start of the 2024\/25 rainy season in October due to limited access to water and pasture, the United States Agency for International Development (USAid) food security arm has said.<\/p>\n<p>The country is currently battling the effects of the El Nin\u0303o weather phenomenon, which has resulted in erratic rainfall patterns across southern Africa, leading to widespread crop failures and acute water shortages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to limited access to water and pasture, livestock poverty deaths are expected to peak before the start of the 2024\/25 rainy season in October 2024. However, the forecasted average rainfall in late 2024 will likely improve water and pasture availability and support improvement in livestock body conditions,\u201d USAid\u2019s Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FewsNet) latest report read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHumanitarian food assistance needs are expected to increase into early 2025, following a very early start to the 2024\/25 lean season and will be significantly higher than last year and the five-year average.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government and the United Nations have released appeals for domestic and international support covering immediate, short- and long-term interventions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Agriculture and Rural Development Advisory Service disclosed that cumulative cattle poverty deaths reported last season stood at 7 643, with Matabeleland South province the most affected having lost 4 432 animals, followed by Matabeleland North (2 573), Midlands (735) and Masvingo (103).<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe received US$31,8 million from African Risk Capacity, an arm of the African Union, as part of an insurance payout for the devastation the country suffered from the El Nin\u0303o-induced drought last week.<\/p>\n<p>The money from African Risk Capacity is expected to benefit 509 000 households.<\/p>\n<p>The government directly received a payment of US$16,8 million. The World Food Programme got US$6,1 million, which will benefit 200 000 people as part of drought mitigation in the southern African country and Start Network received the remainder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe areas of highest concern include the communal smallholder livelihood zones in southern, eastern, western and extreme northern typical deficit-producing areas,\u201d FewNet said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, there is also concern for most of the typical high- and surplus-producing areas in the Mashonaland provinces following a poor 2024 harvest and for urban poor households with limited purchasing capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Zimbabwe Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. LIVESTOCK poverty deaths are expected to peak before the start of the 2024\/25 rainy season in October due to limited access to water and pasture, the United States Agency for International Development (USAid) food security arm has said. The country is currently battling the effects of the El Nin\u0303o weather phenomenon, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":96259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[19],"class_list":{"0":"post-96260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-economy","9":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Livestock poverty death grips Zim - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"LIVESTOCK poverty deaths are expected to peak before the start of the 2024\/25 rainy season in October due to limited acc ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/livestock-poverty-death-grips-zim\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Livestock poverty death grips Zim\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LIVESTOCK poverty deaths are expected to peak before the start of the 2024\/25 rainy season in October due to limited acc ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/livestock-poverty-death-grips-zim\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-07-08T07:27:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-07-08T09:39:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2024\/07\/sm_1720418616.955078.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"405\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/livestock-poverty-death-grips-zim\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/livestock-poverty-death-grips-zim\",\"name\":\"Livestock poverty death grips Zim - 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