Zimbabwe - The Emergency Assistance to Vulnerable Smallholder Farmers

The Emergency Assistance to Vulnerable Smallholder Farmers Project is the Bank response to the Zimbabwe Government’s request for assistance to support vulnerable households affected by drought in the past seasons, internal displacement and cholera, to access agricultural inputs (seeds and fertilizers) in the coming 2009/2010 agricultural season. This emergency input assistance will provide inputs to 30,000 vulnerable households in the targeted communal areas to cultivate 15,000 ha of cereals and pulses. This will increase the current cereal production of the targeted farmers by 22,500mt of cereals and pulses at an estimated average yield of 1.5mt per ha.