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Can joint ventures and sub-letting unleash Zimbabwe’s agricultural potential?
February 24, 2020 / FAC blog
 The under-performance of parts of Zimbabwe’s agricultural sector continues. This mostly applies to large estates and some medium-scale farms that were reallocated under the fast-track land reform as A2 resettlement farms. Last year, as part of the economic reform agenda,
Livestock production: the limits of extensive systems in Zimbabwe
October 30, 2019 / FAC blog
 As the previous blog described, the communal area sites we have been studying in Masvingo rarely produced sufficient crops to cover even subsistence needs, and then if so only very occasionally, as with the Mwenezi experience in 2016-17. So what about livestock