Poverty for sale : Sinazongwe's socio-economic needs in the face of climate change
Mweembe Muleya Mudenda
This is the story of Sinazongwe, a district in the southern province of Zambia. Like the most famous Livingstone, the home of the Victoria Falls, so is Sinazongwe, the home of largest manmade lake in Africa. After being displaced in by Government 1959 for the construction of the Kariba Dam, the people of Sinazongwe now live in a flood prone area. Sinazongwe comprises two Chiefdoms: the Sinazongwe and the Mweemba. It is just to the northeast of Livingston, another major city in Zambia. Sinazongwees problems are many. Firstly, the road is the district is gravel and impassable during rainy season. Agriculture wise, people grow crops but, alas, flood come. If it is not floods, then drought will come. The focus of this paper is to accelerate infrastructure development; economic growth and diversification; promote rural investment and accelerate poverty reduction and enhance human development in Sinazongwe and fostering climate change incentives.
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