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Beating Hunger: The Chivi Experience A Community-based Approach to Food Security in Zimbabwe

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Beating Hunger: The Chivi Experience
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People's participation in development has been promoted for over 20 years, yet it is still commonplace for development projects to be pre-designed, with little more than token consultation with those they are intended to assist. Within the broad remit of promoting food security, the Chivi project has helped small-scale farmers in the drought-prone and arid communal lands of Zimbabwe to identify their problems and choose their own solutions to them. Central to the project was the attention paid to strengthening existing institutions - the local farmers' clubs and women's garden groups - to ensure the continuity of activities after the departure of the project. Also of critical importance was the involvement of the government agricultural extension service from the start of the project, which has meant that the process approach demonstrated in Chivi District is now being taught to other extension workers and adopted throughout the service. The book describes the background of the farmers, and then details the process approach which involved needs-assessment surveys, institutional surveys, participatory planning, awareness-raising training, visits to view new technologies, evaluation and dissemination of new and traditional agricultural techniques and local seed varieties. The ways in which the project sought to strengthen women's position in the local community without confrontation is also described. The Chivi project has been unique internationally in its combination of the participation of local community institutions with the government's commitment to the reorganization of its agricultural development services. It is now being replicated elsewhere in Zimbabwe. The successful institutionalization of these methods contains lessons about sustainability for us all.

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