Gutu

Gutu is a 1454 m high city and a district with about 50,000 inhabitants in the Masvingo Province in Zimbabwe .

The city and district are dominated by agriculture. Professor Hans-Joachim Wenzel from the University of Osnabrück was involved in the CARD (Coordinated Agricultural and Rural Development) project with regard to rural development policy at the end of the 1980s. As in the rest of the country, crop yields have fallen dramatically after the land reform. Undernourishment and malnutrition are common. The increasing impoverishment of the people exacerbates this situation.

Gutu has elementary and secondary schools, hospitals and an air runway.

sons and daughters of the town

Morgan Tsvangirai (1952-2018; politician and trade unionist)
Chirikure Chirikure (* 1962; poet and narrator)

-19.633333333333 31.166666666667Coordinates: 19 ° 38 ′ S , 31 ° 10 ′ E

Individual evidence

↑ Hans-Joachim Wenzel, Ulrich Weyl: Rural Development Policy: The Example of the CARD Project in Gutu District / Zimbabwe , in: Journal for Economic Geography, 1. 1990, pp. 27–45.

[1] Hans-Joachim Wenzel, Ulrich Weyl: Rural Development Policy: The Example of the CARD Project in Gutu District / Zimbabwe , in: Journal for Economic Geography, 1. 1990, pp. 27–45.