CAFP’s approach and specific research themes and activities are consistent with the objectives and focal areas of National Development Strategies and country’s agriculture sector priorities, the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Our approach include, but not limited to, the following:

1. Partnering with government, farmer unions, academic institutions, cooperating partners, civil society, individual analysts and decision makers;
2. Integrating research, outreach, capacity building, and institutional strengthening policy development and implementation;
3. Conducting policy analysis with attention to implementation, in particular provide input and technical support to actualize, monitor, evaluate and learn lessons from implementing the country’s agricultural transformation strategy.
4. “Disaggregated” research that looks below the macro level to examine sub national, community household, and gender-level impacts, and fully explore the dynamics of poverty, gender and agriculture.
5. Taking into account how regional agricultural and food security challenges affect Zimbabwe’s policy decision processes and vice versa.