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Titre : Improved livelihoods for smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe through improved coordination of agricultural assistance and improved farming practices

Code du projet : OSRO/ZIM/301/USA

Pays : Zimbabwe

Localisation : Zimbabwe

Durée : 07/03/2013-31/03/2014

Objectif
To strengthen the coordination of agricultural activities at the national, province and district levels, with Government institutions increasingly taking responsibility of these efforts.

Activités
* Assisted MAMID in organizing a national workshop to strengthen agriculture sector coordination mechanisms at the provincial and district levels.
* Assisted the Agricultural National Steering Committee (ANSC) in developing agricultural input guidelines for the 2013/14 agriculture season, which specified the use of market-based approaches and the payment of farmer contributions for any input assistance provided to targeted farmers.
* Supported the development of a national nutrition strategy.
* Organized two provincial ACIF meetings to support and strengthen the process of agricultural and food and security information sharing and dissemination.
* Supported the Agriculture and Food Security Monitoring System (AFSMS) to produce three AFSMS bulletins and present them to ACIF.
* Supported MAMID to undertake the 2013 First and Second Round Crop and Livestock Assessments, and the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVac) to undertake the 2013 ZimVac Food Security Assessment.
* Assisted MAMID in developing a gender strategy and reviewing the HIV/AIDS strategy for the agriculture sector.

Partenaires : Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanization and Irrigation Development (MAMID).

Organisations des Nations Unies : FAO

Donneur : United States of America
Contribution : USD 750 000

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