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Improving Income and Food and Nutrition Security for Farmers Involved in Small-Scale Irrigation in Zimbabwe - GCP/ZIM/026/EC

Year of publication 2020

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The implementation of the Smallholder Irrigation Support Programme focused on enhancing incomes and food and nutrition security through the rehabilitation of irrigation schemes in in seven districts in two provinces of Zimbabwe – Matabeleland South and Manicaland. The project was expected to benefit 36 000 people, 6 000 of them directly, through irrigation rehabilitation, capacity-building, agribusiness development, catchment conservation initiatives and the diffusion of technologies and innovative alternative income options. The main objective of the project was to sustainably increase the production, productivity and competitiveness of smallholder irrigated agriculture in targeted schemes in communal and old resettlement areas of Zimbabwe.

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