Small-scale coffee and tea production used to contribute considerably to household income of more than 6000 smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe, including Mr. Duri up to the late 1990s. Since the year 2000 when Zimbabwe embarked on an unplanned land reform programme, the resulting economic instability brought the tea and coffee value chains to a halt by 2010. During the decade, smallholder farmers faced challenges such as shortage of affordable inputs, very limited technical support, weak linkages with the markets (both for inputs supply and to sell their produce) and lack of access to credit.