What We Do
The Network brings together organisations with varied land and agriculture expertise to provide evidence-based policy design and implementation advice on access to land, its utilization and the quality of land and agriculture- based livelihoods. The network achieves results at two levels increasing member organizations’ knowledge, coordination and voice; and Informing and influencing the design and implementation of policies for the benefit of citizens deriving livelihoods for land and agriculture-based activities
Thematic Areas of Work
ZiLAN's work is currently organized under four themes namely ; Land Tenure, Production and Finance , Agrarian Markets and Climate Change.
Land Tenure
Key focus areas for the cluster are;
- Influencing land policy review
- Strengthening land tenure
- Conducting awareness raising programs on land rights for women and youths
- Constitutional literacy on land rights among marginalised groups (farmers, farm workers, women, youth, persons living with disability, persons living with HIV)
- Parliamentary advocacy (targeting portfolio committees on land, gender, women, youth, persons living with HIV, persons living with disability)
Production & Finance
The production cluster aims at;
- Influencing policy on sustainable land use practices
- Influencing policy on access to affordable and sustainable agricultural finance and insurance for small holder farmers
- Influencing policy for availability of inputs: subsidies, contract farming, agricultural loans, value chain models etc. for smallholder farmers
- Generating and disseminating evidence based research on sustainable land use and agricultural production practices, models of sustainable agricultural finance and insurance
Agrarian Markets
The cluster focuses on issues relating to;
- Influencing domestic pricing modalities
- Linking small holder farmers with alternative domestic, regional, global markets
- Facilitating and supporting value addition / rural industrialisation
- Strengthening of producer associations for collective voice
- Improving small holder farmers capacity to negotiate in contract farming
- Promotion of food sovereignty and production as well as consumption of small grains
Climate Change
The network’s focus under the climate change cluster entails the following;
- Sensitisation of the communities and network members on climate change threats
- Evidence based research on sustainable climate change resilient practices
- Documentation and dissemination of research findings
- Organising workshops to share research findings
- Identifying pilot groups for appropriate technologies that are resilient to harsh climatic conditions which are suitable of small holder farmers
- Sharing experiences on best practices
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