The Smallholder Agriculture Cluster Project will join government ministries, agencies, development partners in commemorating this year’s belated World Food Day celebrations at Matopo Research Institute, Matobo District, Matabeleland South. The event which will take place on the 20th of November 2025, will run under the theme “Hand in hand for better foods and a better future”.
The project is mobilising farmers to participate in profitable value chains and markets; and connecting them to markets. The project is mobilising farmers to participate in profitable value chains and markets; and connecting them to markets. 800 Agriculture Producer Groups (APGs), 200 Small and Medium Enterprises and 40 Value chain lead enterprises will benefit through financial support that is meant to promote increased production and market linkages.
SACP is also developing smallholders’ capacity in climate smart production, marketing, business skills, and financial literacy. The project will also rehabilitate and/or develop climate proofed infrastructure to support value chain activities.
The project is rehabilitating communal irrigation schemes with a total hectarage of 1800 hectares, establishing 100 multi-purpose water points (Village Business Units) and 189 km of last mile feeder roads to connect producers to the market. These projects have been co-financed by the Government of Zimbabwe, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) , OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), the private sector and farmers though in kind contributions.These initiatives are tailored to ensure increased production, improved nutrition and increased incomes in line with the Government’s blueprint, the National Development Strategy 1, Zimbabwe’s five-year plan to achieve the country’s over-arching Vision 2030, which is to become an upper middle-income society by 2030.
