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Tsetse control using Epsilon trap made in Zimbabwe
Tsetse flies (Glossina spp.) infest over 11 million sq km of Africa, and are vectors of Trypanosomosis (or Trypanosomiasis) in both humans and domestic livestock. For example, it is estimated that tsetse cover over 7 percent of Zimbabwe and 60 percent of Tanzania and Trypanosomosis has an important negative impact on livestock...
Zimbabwe
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Bringing life back to the land: Zimbabwean farmers revive stagnant farms through agroecology
The Shashe farms in the Runde catchment area of Zimbabwe extend across three villages. Since 2010, over 500 families from the region have worked alongside ZIMSOFF (Zimbabwe Smallholder Organic Farmers Forum) and AZTREC (Association of Zimbabwe Traditional Environmental Conversationists) to revive arid cattle-ranching land into rich, abundant food forests.
At the...
Zimbabwe
2020 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
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Tsetse control: how to use Tsetse traps with an odour dispenser
Tsetse flies (Glossina sp.) infest over 11 million square km of Africa, and are vectors of Trypanosomosis (or Trypanosomiasis) in both man and domestic livestock. For example, it is estimated that tsetse infestations occur over 7 percent of Zimbabwe and 60 percent of Tanzania and Trypanosomosis has an important negative impact on...
Zimbabwe
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Preventing stackburn heat damage to stored maize
Stackburn in maize is heat damage characterized by a brown discoloration of the grain resulting from heat build-up in the interior of stacks held in commercial storage in sub-Saharan Africa. Affected maize may be downgraded in commercial markets or have to be diverted for animal-feed use. Where discoloration is severe,...
Zimbabwe
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Tsetse control: how to deploy a target
Tsetse flies (Glossina species) infest over 11 million square km of Africa and are vectors of Trypanosomosis (or Trypanosomiasis) in both humans and domestic livestock. It is estimated that tsetse occurs in over seven percent of Zimbabwe and 60 percent of United Republic of Tanzania territories. Hence Trypanosomosis has an important negative...
Uganda - Zimbabwe
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Zimbabwe - Food insecurity conditions aggravated by rapid and significant price increases
Triggered by fiscal challenges, food prices have risen significantly since late 2018, with negativeimpacts on access to food. Lower production prospects for the 2019 cereal crop and constrained import capacity also raise concerns about domestic supplies in 2019/20.
Zimbabwe
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
博文
The real seed producers
Small-scale farmers save, use, share and enhance the seed diversity of the crops that feed Africa
This report unpacks and explores farmer-managed seed systems and their contribution to food and seed sovereignty, including the benefits they provide to farming communities as a part of their sociocultural, economic, spiritual and ecological livelihoods. The report highlights, exposes and explores how these systems work. It builds on reports of...
Ethiopia - Mali - Senegal - Uganda - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2018 - AFSA
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Valorization of Forest Products : Beekeeping
In Zimbabwe, FAO has been implementing a four year EU funded project to improve food and nutrition security of vulnerable rural communities through participatory sustainable forest management and value addition to forest products. The video tells the story of a beekeeper named Njovana. Njovana now understands that every tree that...
Zimbabwe
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
视频
Valorization of Forest Products : Marula ,Baobab and Mangetti
In Zimbabwe, FAO has been implementing a four year EU funded project to improve food and nutrition security of vulnerable rural communities through participatory sustainable forest management and value addition to forest products. The tough protective shell that houses a delectable delight earned the Marula fruit the name, HARD NUT....
Zimbabwe
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
政策简报/文件
Contract farming arrangement and poor resourced farmers in Zimbabwe
This study sought to understand the impact of contract farming on livelihoods among the small-scale farmers in two study districts of Zvimba and Goromonzi which are located in the Mashonaland Provinces. This was done through examining different levels of income earned between contract and non-contract tobacco growers, food consumption rates,...
Zimbabwe
2018 - Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies (SMAIAS)
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Forest Policy Formulation
In Zimbabwe, FAO has been implementing a four year EU funded project to improve food and nutrition security of vulnerable rural communities through participatory sustainable forest management and value addition to forest products. Part of the project includes assisting the government of Zimbabwe in the formulation of a comprehensive forest...
Zimbabwe
2018
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Combatting animal diseases in Zimbabwe
By engaging farmers, technical staff, and public institutions in capacity building and awareness raising, the project enhanced the recognition, prevention and control of tick-borne diseases (TBDs) and transboundary animal diseases (TADs) among stakeholders. Cattle vaccines were procured and administered, and materials on animal diseases were produced in English and IsiNdebele...
Zimbabwe
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
简讯
ZILAN Newsletter - April-June 2018
The Zimbabwe Land and Agrarian Network (ZiLAN) established in 2012 brings together non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working on land and agrarian issues. Membership of the Network comprises organisations involved in research and policy analysis; NGOs working with farmers; farmers’ representative organisations; women’s and youth in agriculture interest groups, and land reform...
Zimbabwe
2018 - Zimbabwe Land and Agrarian Network (ZiLAN)
政策简报/文件
Locating the position of peasants under the “New Dispensation”
A focus on land tenure issues
The focus of the study is to explore implications of the latest land and agricultural policy pronouncements, discourse and narratives by the new administration on smallholder farmers' access and security on agricultural land. To gather the perspectives, learn and share experiences of farmers, particularly women, relating to tenure security and...
Zimbabwe
2018 - Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies (SMAIAS)
个案研究
State led contract farming in maize production and farmers' lived experiences
The case stories details farmers' lived experiences in state led contract farming in maize production in Zimbabwe particulalry rural women farmers.
Zimbabwe
2018 - Zimbabwe Land and Agrarian Network
报告
Sustainable management of Miombo woodlands
Food security, nutrition and wood energy
The Miombo woodland is a vast African dryland forest ecosystem covering close to 2.7 million km2 across southern Africa (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe). The woodlands are characterized by the dominance of Brachystegia species, either alone or in association with Julbernardia and Isoberlinia...
Angola - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Malawi - Mozambique - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
个案研究
Agroecology for home and market: a winning combination for rural Communities in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe
The main cause of food insecurity for many communal households in Zimbabwe is their reliance upon a form of subsistence-based agriculture which is dependent on a limited range of inputs often poorly suited to local conditions. The current agricultural system prioritizes monocropping and grain yield over other factors of food...
Zimbabwe
2017 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
报告
The household- and individual-level economic impacts of cash transfer programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Synthesis report
This report synthesizes the analysis and findings of a set of seven country impact evaluation studies that explore the impact of cash transfer programmes on household economic decision-making, productive activities and labour allocation in sub-Saharan Africa. The seven countries are Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Results from...
Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Lesotho - Malawi - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
博文
Income security for smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe
Revamping rural livelihoods in the face of climate change
In Zimbabwe, over 70 percent of the population depends on agriculture for their livelihoods. Climate change is threatening agricultural productivity and exacerbating some of Zimbabwe’s key agricultural challenges: low soil fertility, reliance on rain-fed systems, poorly functioning markets, and farmers’ limited access to credit, knowledge and best practices. To address...
Zimbabwe
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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From farm to Market: Commercialization of smallholder Irrigation
It's a busy day for Themba Mundidini, a banana farmer at Mutema irrigation scheme in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe. Themba is assured of a bumper harvest, the first after five attempts. The source of the successful season is the water sprinklers spewing the precious liquid on the lush banana...
Zimbabwe
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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