Sustainability through Vegetable Goat Skin Tanning in Mwenezi District in Zimbabwe: Opportunities and Challenges
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2022-12-20
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Indiana Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
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The study analyzed the opportunities, challenges and mitigation strategies that can be harnessed for sustainable goat skin tanning into leather and subsequent manufacture of Textile substrates in a bid to achieve the proposed sustainable development goal SDG 12 “Responsible Consumption and Production”. It has been observed that hundreds of goats are slaughtered in Zimbabwe every year mainly to provide meat for family subsistence, rituals, and commercial food and the skins remain unutilized as waste products polluting the environment. The largest number is slaughtered in the December Christmas festive season every year. Tapping these resources into good use and training folks of Zimbabwe in vegetable tanning skills and manufacture of textile substrates from the leather product, creates employment alleviating poverty and at the same time achieving the UN sustainable development goal SDG 12 “Responsible Consumption and Production”. The study therefore aims at updating local authorities, government, NGOs, technical training institutions and citizens in Zimbabwe of the gap so that they proffer initiatives and implement strategies for sustainable vegetable tanning of the goat skins into leather a valuable product in the Textile fraternity. The qualitative study unearths the opportunities, challenges, and recommendations for strategies to adopt and promote sustainable vegetable goat skin tanning activities in a selected district in Zimbabwe.
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Stephen, H.O., Silas, S. and Shava, G.N., 2022. Sustainability through Vegetable Goat Skin Tanning in Mwenezi District in Zimbabwe: Opportunities and Challenges. Indiana Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 3(12), pp.10-18.