Sustainability – Case Study: Zimbabwe

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present times without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.Locate and fall upon with a sketch map the geography of Zimbabwe.Zimbabwe is a landlocked area located in southern eastern Africa. The terrain is mostly high plateau with a higher central plateau (high veld any of the open air grazing areas of southern Africa) and mountains in the east. Zimbabwe covers an area of 39000 sq. kms and has a universe of discourse of 12.8 million of which 35% are urbanised. Half of these are in the capital metropolis which is Harare (located by the red dot on the map).What are the challenges that gift Zimbabwe to twenty-four hours?You can read also Costco Case Study in that location is racial divide as only 2% of the population is tweed of the majority black population 71% are Shona and 16% Ndebele.The plain is now effectively bankrupt. Social service provision is in freeze off and unemplo yment is running at 60%. From being self sufficient in basic food stuffs it is estimated that in 2003/2004 only one third of its principal(prenominal) staple food maize will be available. Half the population are said by an O.E.C.D. Report (2003) to be facing starving without outside aid. there are spatial inequalities such as at the periphery. The World Bank (1999) estimated the 6 million population in the common lands live on less than an average of 1US$ a head per day and that 58% live under the poverty line compared with 8% in the core. The periphery lacks urbanisation, rail and road networks, power grids, mining estates, manufacturing and various forms of sociable infrastructure.From 1990 to date the government moved away from a direct adjudicate to address the issue of regional inequalities towards economic policies which benefited the core region that which it was hoped would also bring spread effects to the periphery.The core is still reign by a capitalist based and ex port orientated economy. There is extreme social dualism, 20% of the population command 60% of the countrys gross domestic product and are mainly urban based.Since 2000 an ill thought out quick Track land reform programme, together with illegal land line of credit of white commercial message farms, has failed to significantly relieve pressure on communal lands and crippled the commercial agriculture sector which was a main offset of food tack and the major source of exports.Outline the urgent priorities that Zimbabwe faces today. decrement of regional inequalities is a central policy under the governments declared principle of Equity with Growth. They are a event of a combination of interconnected factors Natural resource disparities and natural events such as periodic drought, sparing forces, core periphery contrasts, a failure of government policies, external factors run from 1890.From 1998, and particularly following the controversial 2000 general election, Zimbabwe has been plunged into crisis as a result of a number of factors periodic droughts, the Aids epidemic, rampant inflation adversely affecting both internal finances and the countrys competitiveness in abroad markets and a collapse in all major sectors of the economy.The crippled commercial agriculture sector which was a main source of food supply and the major source of exports, brought about by the land reform programme. This contributes to far-flung food shortages and economic downturn from exports.