More than 150 key stakeholders in the agriculture sector, including Senior Government officials, private sector actors, farmer organisations, financial institutions, development partners and UN Agencies are gathered in Harare for the next three days, holding an Agriculture and Food Systems Investment Forum. The Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and...

FAO and the Government embark on developing a new fisheries and aquaculture bill Government officials, fish industry captains, civil society and private sector representatives gathered in Harare today to start consultations on the first of its kind legislation described as an economic milestone to bolster the development and sustainability of Zimbabwe’s...

The Digital Village Initiative (DVI) has been met with great enthusiasm and support from various stakeholders, including government officials and rural smallholder farmers. This emerged from the DVI scoping field assessments that were carried out by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Zimbabwe in partnership with...

Tapping into the agriculture innovation economy while expanding reach through exhibitions. The Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) is one of the largest inter-regional annual trade fairs in sub-Saharan Africa. The ZITF provides governments, private sector, development organizations, research, academia and the general public a multi-international expo platform for trade exchange opportunities...

The Green Jobs for Rural Youth Employment project demonstrates the country’s progress in agrifood systems for youths. The agriculture sector is dominated by many smallholder farmers usually youths with technical skills but lacking capital to finance production as the sector is capital intensive. In Zimbabwe, two-thirds of the country’s population live...