An Analysis Of Crop Diversification, Food Security And Adoption Of Sustainable Soil And Moisture Conservation Tillage Practices By Smallholder Farmers In Zimbabwe: A Case Study Of Kandeya Communal Land

AEE Working Paper.This paper is based on an empirical case study quantifying the relationship between soil and moisture conservation practices, food and cash crop production and farm household welfare-food security and household income. The study tests the hypothesis that intensive agricultural production on the basis of cash crop production and application of soil and moisture conservation practices increase the land/iabour productivity with positive effects on household food output and income. The results confirm that sustainable cropping systems and management practices are profitable and improve household food security and incomes at the farm level. This provides a basis for wide spread adoption by the small farmers

Agricultural Research Management Training Needs in SADCC

An AEE Working Paper.Management capabilities in agricultural research have been diagnosed as extremely weak in East and Southern Africa. Many agricultural professionals including academics are involved in management but haye not had any formal background in management training. Improving management skills of agricultural professionals is becoming widely recognized as a means of improving productivity in agriculture. For example, the International Agricultural Research Centers including IRRI and CIMMYT are now viewed as being limited in their impacts by management constraints and the thirteenth international research centre, the International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) has been created to address agricultural research management issues

Microcomputer Ex Ante Small Farm Agricultural Research Benefit/Cost Analysis: Zimbabwe, Zambia And Tanzania

AEE Working paper on Zimbabwean Agriculture.The general purpose of the working paper is to provide a group of case studies to be used in agricultural research management workshops with the working paper. Agricultural Research Management Training Needs'-, - me'. SAiDCC2. The paper on training heeds recommends the application of ex;anfe>Muefit:/^thihd^ts as a planning and control tool, for improving the productivity of SADCC agricultural research projects. Ex ante. BC evaluation, refers to economic analysis of research project benefits! versus costs for a range of -alternatives prior to initiation of a project. Ex ante B/C evaluation. refers to the economic analysis of benefits versus costs! after completion of a research project; Historical assessments! of projects in Ex post evaluations are useful but not directly relevant for investment decisions on current and proposed projects

"LAND REFORM, IDEOLOGY AND URBAN FOOD SECURITY: ZIMBABWE'S" THIRD CHIMURENGA

This paper is used to comment on the political, legal and ideological struggles between the Zimbabwean State and an alliance comprised of the Commercial Farmers Union of Zimbabwe (CFU) and the British Government over the country's land reform and the theoretical context in which these processes may be situated. A related and equally important objective of the study is to understand how ordinary Zimbabweans construe the impacts of the unfolding dynamics on their livelihoods. The study examines the mechanisms, which both the State and the alliance have used to manipulate land reform in pursuit of their various ideological and political objectives. Finally, it explores how these strategies are being interpreted by the urban poor in the local discourse of food insecurity. These issues are all contextualised in terms of what a former Zimbabwe cabinet minister describes as the "Third Chimurenga", a reference to the country's first two agrarian/liberation struggles or "chimurengas". Copyright (c) 2007 by the Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG.