posted on 2024-09-05, 21:06authored byAndrew Newsham, Toendepi Shonhe, Tsitsidzashe Bvute
There has been an increasingly well-documented, rapid rise in tobacco production over the last couple of decades in Mazowe, Zimbabwe, despite growing public health concerns about lung cancer and nicotine’s addictive capacities in the wealthier countries of the West – even affecting the South African market. This has been accompanied by a shift away from its production almost completely on large-scale farms towards predominantly small-scale farms. To date, less consideration has been given to the implications of climate change for tobacco production. Given the hopes that it can make a serious contribution to poverty reduction and food security, it is of increasing importance to understand these implications, to identify the most relevant and/or effective adaptation options and to assess the viability of their successful adoption. This paper presents a fine-grained, qualitative bottom-up analysis of the implications for commercial tobacco production of climate change impacts in Zimbabwe.
Funding
Department for International Development, UK Government
History
Publisher
APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium
Citation
Newsham, A., Shonhe, T. and Bvute, T. (2021) Commercial Tobacco Production and Climate Change Adaptation in Mazowe, Zimbabwe, APRA Working Paper 64, Brighton: Future Agricultures Consortium, DOI: 10.19088/APRA.2021.023