Reports

The African Development Bank-funded Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation programme (TAAT) has set the ambitious target of reaching 40 million farmers in the next five years and adding 120 million metric tons of additional foodstuffs in…

Background • The assessment was carried out in an environment where the Government had set in moon a Transional Stabilizaon Programme (TSP) in a bid to set the economy on a recovery path aer years of stagnaon. The…

Executive Summary This report presents an assessment of Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector disaster risk and management capacity. The findings indicate that Zimbabwe is highly exposed to agricultural risks and has limited capacity to manage risk at various levels.…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY / In response to heightened food insecurity in Zimbabwe, Crown Agents and CARE, through the Grain Trade Market Facility, utilised existing market structures to avoid a potentially devastating food disaster. Using innovative solutions that brought…

In Numbers 32.79 mt of food assistance distributed US$138,567 cash based transfers assistance US$ 24.7 m six months (July - December 2018) net funding requirements, representing 53% of total 13,923 people assisted in May 2018 Operational Context Over the last decade, Zimbabwe…

By Osman Mohamed Osman, IFRC Thomas Kafas Shumba smiles as he inspects his only surviving portion of maize crop plantations, adjacent to his mud-walled house—in Wanasi village, Zimbabwe. Clad in a printed grey shirt and a pair of…

Highlights WFP, in collaboration with its partners, is scaling up its Lean Season Assistance programme to reach 31 districts, assisting 482,000 people across the country. WFP is scaling up cash-based transfers during the 2017/18 LSA period, encompassing mobile…

KEY MESSAGES Regional maize supplies remain high and sufficient to satisfy needs for the remainder of the 2017/18 marketing year (Figure 1 and Annex 1). Estimated maize surpluses are significantly above average in South Africa (Figure 2).…

Objective: To support drought-affected smallholder farmers with access to subsidised stockfeed and seeds and related training. Key partners: Ministry of Agriculture Mechanization and Irrigation Development’s extension services, AGRITEX and NGOs. Beneficiaries reached: 4 343 drought-affected smallholder farmers. Activities implemented: Identified and sensitized project…

09 February 2018, Harare – The UK Department of International Development (DFID) announced today a £21.5 million grant to the Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund (ZRBF), which seeks to contribute to increased capacities of vulnerable rural communities…