LFSPZim

18/02/2021

"Water is not considered a major commodity – like oil – but is one of the most valuable resources that sustain life on earth"
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)'s Marco Sanchez

Watch this video to find out how is sustaining lives through borehole rehabilitation.

Borehole rehabilitation to improve water supply in rural Zimbabwe

15/01/2021

The FAO Office of Evaluation (OED) is conducting an evaluation of the “Zimbabwe Livelihoods and Food Security Programme (LFSP)- Agriculture Productivity and Nutrition component”, FAO project.

FAO is currently looking for potential candidates to join the evaluation team as EVALUATION TEAM LEADER OR TEAM MEMBER.

Evaluation consultants with experience working in Zimbabwe and in evaluating strategic and complex capacity development programmes or projects are encouraged to apply.

For more information and details on this assignment, please refer to the Call for Expression of Interest available at this link: https://jobs.fao.org/careersection/fao_external/jobdetail.ftl?job=2002955&tz=GMT%2B01%3A00&tzname

Please note that the application deadline is 22 January 2021.

CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST – VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT: 2002955 Evaluation Specialists (Evaluation Team Leader and team members)  Job Posting : 21/Dec/2020 Closure Date :…

02/12/2020

Join our Chief Technical Advisor Ali Said today on a Catalysing Agenda 50 panel discussion. Where he and other panelists will be discussing on Rural Transformation & Sustainable Livelihoods: What does it take to transform the narrative of Small Holder Farmers.

🎙Speaker

Ali Said is an Agricultural Economist with over 30 years of experience in agriculture, rural development, livelihoods, food security and institutional capacity building. In the last 15 years Ali has been managing large-scale development programmes in Ethiopia, South Sudan and Zimbabwe funded by development partners including the EU, CIDA, USAID and FCDO.
Currently working for FAO, he is the Chief Technical Advisor for the £72 million Zimbabwe Livelihoods and Food Security Programme (LFSP) funded by Foreign, Common Wealth & Development Office (formerly DFID) in Zimbabwe. LFSP is a multi-component (extension, market development, nutrition, rural finance and policy) flagship programme executed by FAO Zimbabwe in partnership with the Government of Zimbabwe, NGOs, research & academia, think tanks and private sector since 2014. The programme aims to contribute to poverty reduction through increased incomes for over 250,000 smallholder farming households from selected 12 districts in 4 provinces of Zimbabwe. The programme in collaboration with Foundation for Farming, pioneered the field level roll out of “Pfumvudza” concept to nearly 10,000 smallholder farmers in the 2019/20 season, results of which are informing national scaling up.

25/11/2020

Exciting News!! - The Recipe Book 📙on how to feed children using Biofortified Crops 🌽is now online in English and .

Download now and start enjoying some nutritious and Scrumptious Treats 👇

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“Exciting News!! - The Recipe Book 📙on how to feed children using Biofortified Crops 🌽is now online in English and . Download now and start enjoying some nutritious and Scrumptious Treats 👇 https://t.co/osZkleFRL7 ”

04/11/2020

Farmers in the Midlands Province collecting and processing monkey bread pods/masekesa to incorporate in ruminant feed for goats, sheep and cattle feed. Local materials have proven to be useful substitutes for animal feed during lean seasons. Welthungerhilfe - WHH Zimbabwe, Tafadzwa Chidoori, Practical Action, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Zimbabwe Small Scale Farmers, BASF Agricultural Solutions

08/10/2020

The LFSP Market Development component invites stakeholders, organisations, farmers, businesses and individuals to a week of insightful learnings on how the Programme interventions treated some of the market challenges. Emerging issues will be flagged to improve future programming
do not miss this exciting week.

Please follow the link below just before 1300 on the day of the event:
• Poultry hatching https://bit.ly/30GLALu
• Contract farming https://bit.ly/2GBKTMq
• Livestock feed processing https://bit.ly/3jFpyjw
• M&E https://bit.ly/30HdIOw
Do not miss out

15/09/2020

A SMELLY SOLUTION? Black soldier fly larvae are a low-cost nature-based solution to the protein problem for poultry, fish & pig farmers. the Foreign Commonwealth And Development Office has been funding efforts to promote black soldier fly production in Zimbabwe through the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Zimbabwe Livelihoods and Food Security Programme

BY DONALD T. CHIDOORI, COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST Intensive fish farming relies on the use of properly balanced feeds which in turn, are based on a variety of high-quality ingredients such as soyame…

15/07/2020

The Pfumvudza concept helps farmers produce enough food for an entire household using limited land, water & other resources. Find out how to setup your own from plot from this video

The Pfumvudza concept helps farmers produce enough food for an entire household using limited land, water & other resources. Find out how to setup your own from plot from this video  

15/07/2020

Want to know how you can feed your family for a year on just a small plot...

then WATCH this video with easy steps on HOW to setup, plant and manage a Pfumvudza plot. Down pointing backhand index

Pfumvudza is a concept that is aimed at climate proofing agriculture by adopting conservation farming techniques and involves the utilisation of small pieces...

14/07/2020

The Zimbabwe Livelihoods and Food Security Programme (LFSP) using the inbuilt mechanisms for programme adaptability, developed a COVID-19 Response Plan and risk mitigation matrix covering policy support, ensuring continuity of field level engagement of beneficiaries and offering necessary support for adhering to testing, hygiene and social distancing requirements to programme staff, beneficiaries and partners. Roll out of this plan enabled the LFSP partners with concurrence of DFID, to repurposing up to USD500,000 existing programme funds to respond to the pandemic. Watch this video showing how LFSPZim is Delivering in the Midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe

The global outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic forced many governments, including Zimbabwe to take strict measures in order to curb the spread of the virus. Th...

13/07/2020

Research has shown that a strong immune system can fight coronavirus just like it does the virus for the common colds and flu.

Watch this Video with Easy, affordable and healthy eating tips during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak

LFSP has partnered with the Ministry of Health and Child Care to effectively managed to deliver interventions on nutrition during the Covid-19 Pandemic