Assessment of cyclone idai floods on local food systems and disaster management responses in Mozambique and Zimbabwe
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Date
2021
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Springer, Cham
Abstract
In recent years, countries in southern Africa have experienced frequent hydro-meteorological
disasters, such as widespread flooding caused by tropical cyclones. This chapter takes a close look
at the destructive aspects of tropical cyclone Idai in Mozambique and Zimbabwe and the
emergency disaster management responses. The chapter also seeks to understand the impact of
the cyclone on food systems. The chapter is based on a desktop study that made use of scholarly
publications and various media and organisation reports as the main sources of secondary data. A
key finding of the study is that as the cyclone swept across the two countries, it exposed the
fragilities of the local food systems, thereby presenting food insecurity challenges that potentially
undermined the drive towards the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 on
hunger eradication. The other finding is that the disaster management responses in both countries
focussed on the emergency needs in the affected areas without giving much attention to making
the food systems more resilient.
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Keywords
Cyclone Idai, Displacement, Livelihoods, Food systems, Mozambique
Citation
Tevera D. et al. (2021). Assessment of cyclone idai floods on local food systems and disaster management responses in Mozambique and Zimbabwe. In: Nhamo G., Chikodzi D. (eds) Cyclones in Southern Africa. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74303-1_4