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Given the provision of the Medium Term Plan (MTP 2011-2015), the ZAIP recognizes that the Zimbabwean agricultural sector has undergone massive changes in the farm size leading to increased number of farmers and relatively smaller sizes of farms.The overall goal of ZAIP is to facilitate sustainable increase in production, productivity and competitiveness of Zimbabwean agriculture through building capacity of farmers and institutions, and improving the quantity and quality of public, private and development partner investment and policy alignment’’.The overall programme objective of ZAIP is to facilitate sustainable increase in production, productivity and competitiveness of Zimbabwean agriculture through building capacity of farmers and institutions, improving the quantity and quality of public, private and development partner investment and policy alignment.There are four intermediate result areas that have been identified as individually and collectively contributing to the overall programme objective. Based on the provisions from the MTP, Draft Agricultural Policy and CAADP framework, the key issues from the literature review and stakeholder consultations were clustered in the formulation of four ZAIP intermediate result areas as follows: (i) increasing production and productivity through improved management and sustainable use of land, water, forestry and wildlife resources, (ii) increased participation of farmers in domestic and export markets through development of an efficient agricultural marketing system and an enabling environment for competitive agricultural production, investment (domestic and FDI) and trade, (iii) ensuring food and nutrition security by facilitating a cohesive multi-sectoral agricultural response, (iv) improving agricultural research, technology dissemination and adoption.In order to eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition, the government plans to ensuring food and nutrition security for all people at all times particularly among most vulnerable groups by facilitation a cohesive multi sectoral agriculture response, among others the following strategies: (i) promote and ensure that nutrition security is integrated and owned by multiple sectors as reflected in their policies and strategies, (ii) ensuring that where social protection (including social assistance programmes) is implemented, it must contribute and enhance nutrition and food security of the most vulnerable in the short and medium term, (iii) ensure that nutrition education, behavior change and communication is an integral part of a complementary strategy within all social assistance programmes, (iv) enhancing and strengthening national capacity in food and nutrition security, primarily through supporting and reinforcing local community capacity and responsibility for food and nutrition security, applied context-specific research and learning and multi-sectoral professional training in food and nutrition security.In order to make agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable, the government plans to facilitate sustainable increase in production by increasing production and productivity through improved management and sustainable use of land, water, forestry and wildlife resources.To enable inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems, a number of key strategies will be implemented by the strategy in order to increase the participation of farmers in domestic and export markets through development of an efficient agricultural marketing system and an enabling environment for competitive agricultural production.In the context of governance, the implementation of ZAIP shall involve a number of stakeholders, requiring joint programming through an independent ZAIP Secretariat with clear reporting system, oversight and governance structure headed and facilitated by the MAMID. Upon signing of the ZAIP compact, all stakeholders shall be compelled to realign their programmes and funding in line with the ZAIP priorities. Thematic Working Groups (TWGs) shall be established to analyze, prioritize, and address constraints and opportunities in the agricultural sector. In order to ensure continuous involvement in ZAIP implementation, the private sector representatives shall be encouraged to chair the TWGs to be convened by Directors from sector Ministries.
