Environmental changes (natural)

Socio-economic changes (human-induced)

· Droughts increased

· Drying up of dams

· Hectares of land reduced due to droughts

· Increased tobacco farming

· Deforestation for development and tobacco production

· Overpopulation increasing pressure on available resources

· Increased veld fires

· High Migration

· No grazing lands for animals

· Paddocks encroachment

· Land size reduced because of over population

· People have adapted to other forms of agriculture such as Pfumvudza