The Future of Food, the City and Environment: Case for Resilience in Zimbabwe

In the wake of climate change and unfavourable urban policies, the future of effective food provision to Zimbabwe’s urban inhabitants remains blinkered. The chapter focuses on the need to promote sustainable urban agriculture as one of the major sources of livelihood for women and children especially. Urban Agriculture is noted to improve on food security and livelihoods especially on the poorer portion of the population. It also recommends on the need to reduce on food wastages and at the same time, promote food recycling as an effective way to guard against hunger. Urban local farming and the saving of the available food, and prevention of food wastes would play a positive role in ensuring that, the country achieves part of its Sustainable Development Goals of 2030 that aim to eliminate hunger and the New Urban Agenda that strives to achieve nutrition and food security in cities. The chapter is heavily thrusted on the issue of Urban Agriculture as an effective source of food security in Zimbabwe’s urban environment, especially in a world threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic, and it recommends the need for stern policy measures as regards to the practice of urban agriculture in order to ensure food security in urban areas. This would, in turn, prevent over-reliance on donors, as a way to get Zimbabwe back on its feet as the ‘once’ bread basket of Africa.