Land use should be monitored because giving land to the people alone without monitoring its use under the land reform exercise will not help reduce hunger and poverty, the permanent secretary in the Labour and Social Services
Ministry, Lance Museka, told a media round table, organised by the Food and Agriculture Organisation in Harare on Monday.
Museka said Zimbabwe was going to miss its Millennium Development Goals on hunger and poverty in 2015 if the international community did not intervene.
Zimbabwe continues to face a high incidence of povertyThe population living below the total consumption line stood at 72 per cent, which is far above the set target of 40 per cent. With less than five years before the year 2015, it is imperative that all development partners realign their efforts and focus on quick win areas, he said.
Since the former ruling party Zanu (PF) embarked on the controversial land reform in 2000, Zimbabwe has depended on food handouts.
Instead of appreciating food donations coming from development partners, the same government at one point barred donor organisations from giving the vulnerable rural community food, accusing them of wanting a regime change.
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