The Zimbabwe Land and Agrarian Network (ZiLAN) hosted an Agribusiness Training Workshop in June 2024 targeting 23 women farmers who are beneficiaries of the greenhouse initiative in Domboshava. The training which was facilitated by Total Farm Solutions and the Agricultural Marketing Authority (AMA) capacitated farmers with knowledge on improving productivity, profitability and their overall business…
The ZiLAN held a one-day Agrarian Markets Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue in Harare on the 28th of November 2022 with ZiLAN members, farmers and representatives from the Agricultural Marketing Authority (AMA) and the Tobacco Industrial Marketing Board (TIMB) in attendance. The dialogue which ran under the theme “Improving Access to Input and Output Markets”, focused on the…
ZiLAN hosted a Climate Change and Agro-ecology Exchange Visit in August 2022 at Fambidzanai Permaculture Centre which was attended by women farmers drawn from various districts across Zimbabwe. The objective of the exchange visit was to promote exchange of information (information sharing) on agro-ecology and organic farming amongst women farmers as well as to give…
The ZiLAN working with other stakeholders began the Land4Her Campaign in July 2021. The Land4Her Campaign is an initiative supported by We Effect with the objective of ensuring secure land rights for women and girls as well as equal rights for women and men to own and control land. ZiLAN spearheaded initiatives that included lobbying…
The beginning of the 2017/2018 farming season witnessed a shortage of key farming inputs mostly fertilizers and seed on the formal market which greatly affected production for small-scale farmers. The shortage of farming inputs resulted in a steep increase in prices on the few available inputs. Key input manufacturing companies bemoaned a lack of foreign…
ZiLAN and the Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies (SMAIAS) and the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) hosted a tobacco policy engagement workshop on the 6th of December 2017 in Harare at Pandhari Lodge. The policy dialogue was a culmination of extensive research conducted by the Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies…