Centre For Agriculture and Food Policy
Evidence has shown that consumption of biofortified crops could significantly improve human health and nutrition. Globally, biofortified crops are now grown and consumed by more than 48 million people. However, production and consumption of biofortified crops in Zimbabwe is still depressed. To reach optimum scale, biofortification must be integrated in public and private programmes...……..
COVID-19 poses a potential risk of a looming food crisis in Zimbabwe, unless measures are taken to keep food supply chains alive to alleviate the pandemic’s repercussions. Performance in the grain sector has been following a downward trend prior to the pandemic; therefore the advent of COVID-19 will further disrupt Zimbabwe’s food systems including the grain sub-sector, an important sector in Zimbabwe..……..
In September 2020, government of Zimbabwe and private sector embarked on a pilot project for the Warehouse Receipts System in Zimbabwe. The pilot was to serve as a precursor to the establishment of a commodity exchange. By April 2021, significant progress aimed at operationalizing a regulated warehouse receipts system (WRS) and associated commodity exchange had been made.……..
Zimbabwe is blessed with an exceptional abundance of natural biodiversity. However, the potential contribution of biodiversity to the national economy has historically been largely ignored…….
As the single largest storage operator in the country, the GMB is likely to emerge as the lead actor in offering storage services to individuals, groups and firms under the WRS. However, its strategic role in grain marketing as well as in the implementation of the Government’s national food security policy, may create potential policy-related stumbling blocks which may slow down or even impeded the development of the WRS as well as ZMX...……….