NEW UN-UNITED KINGDOM PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO BOOST FOOD SECURITY IN ZIMBABWE

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From: UNNews <UNNews@un.org>
Date: 23 Dec 2013 11:00:01 -0500
Subject: NEW UN-UNITED KINGDOM PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO BOOST FOOD SECURITY
IN ZIMBABWE
To: news11@ny-mail-p-lb-028.ptc.un.org

NEW UN-UNITED KINGDOM PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO BOOST FOOD SECURITY IN
ZIMBABWENew York, Dec 23 2013 11:00AMThe United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Kingdom are teaming up
to support Zimbabwe's efforts to address poverty, food insecurity and
climate change.

A four-year initiative, funded by the UK's Department for
International Development (DFID), will enable poor vulnerable farming
households to improve food security, nutrition and income while
strengthening their long-term resilience, FAO said in a
<"http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/210883/icode/">news release.

More than 70 per cent of Zimbabweans depend primarily on agriculture
for their livelihoods, but they face a wide range of challenges,
including low productivity, limited market integration, low soil
fertility in some regions, the impact of climate change, limited
irrigation systems, a lack of smallholder-oriented credit systems and
weak agricultural training and services.

The FAO-managed programme will employ climate-smart farming practices
that will raise agricultural productivity, along with initiatives that
will improve farmer access to markets.

It will also aim to boost short-term employment opportunities through
safety-net programmes that will help women and men improve nutrition
and invest in their farms, improve irrigation infrastructure and link
smallholder farmers with markets.

In addition, the initiative will strive to provide enabling
environments through policy support and to encourage public and
private investments, while also aiming to increase agricultural
production and productivity of nutritious foods.

Making farmers resilient against climate change is one of the
objectives of the programme, which will focus on promoting appropriate
climate-smart technologies and farming systems, such as greater crop
diversity, improved storage, processing and preservation, crop
rotations, conservation agriculture and irrigation.

Resilient livestock production approaches will also be promoted,
covering improved feeding strategies, fodder crop production, animal
husbandry and breeding practices.

The new initiative seeks to help nearly 300,000 people in selected
districts of the country. Dec 23 2013 11:00AM
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