Zimbabwe

===Agriculture===
[[File:Shona farms Zimbabwe.jpg|thumb|[[Shona people|Shona]] farms in Zimbabwe]]
Zimbabwe's commercial farming sector was traditionally a source of exports and foreign exchange and provided 400,000 jobs. However, the government's land reform program badly damaged the sector, turning Zimbabwe into a net importer of food products.<ref name="CIA-WF"/> For example, between 2000 and 2016, annual wheat production fell from 250,000 tons to 60,000 tons, maize was reduced from two million tons to 500,000 tons and cattle slaughtered for beef fell from 605,000 head to 244,000 head.<ref name="Out of House" /> Coffee production, once a prized export commodity, came to a virtual halt after seizure or expropriation of white-owned coffee farms in 2000 and has never recovered.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://newsofthesouth.com/zimbabwes-coffee-production-declines/ |title=Zimbabwe's Coffee Production Declines |last=Mumera |first=Wisdom |date=9 January 2016 |website=newsofhesouth.com}}</ref>

For the past ten years, the [[International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics]] has been assisting Zimbabwe's farmers to adopt [[conservation agriculture]] techniques, a sustainable method of farming that can help increase yields. By applying the three principles of minimum soil disturbance, legume-based cropping and the use of organic mulch, farmers can improve infiltration, reduce evaporation and soil erosion, and build up organic soil content.<ref>{{Cite web|title={{!}}{{!}} ICRISAT {{!}}{{!}} Impact|url=http://www.icrisat.org/impacts/impact-stories/Icrisat-impacts-27.htm|access-date=2022-02-23|website=www.icrisat.org|archive-date=23 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223030349/http://www.icrisat.org/impacts/impact-stories/Icrisat-impacts-27.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Between 2005 and 2011, the number of smallholders practicing conservation agriculture in Zimbabwe increased from 5,000 to more than 150,000. Cereal yields rose between 15 and 100 per cent across different regions.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130916133602/http://eiard.org/media/uploads/File/Case%20studies/2013_SDC%20funded/ICRISAT%20-%20Conservation%20agriculture%20and%20micro-dosing%20in%20Zimbabwe.pdf ''Conservation agriculture and microdosing in Zimbabwe''], WRENmedia, January 2013</ref> The government declared potato a national strategic food security crop in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=University|first1=Wageningen|last2=form|first2=Research Contact|date=2015-10-23|title=Agronomic and environmental studies of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) and analysis of its value chain in Zimbabwe|url=https://www.wur.nl/en/activity/Agronomic-and-environmental-studies-of-potato-Solanum-tuberosum-L.-and-analysis-of-its-value-chain-in-Zimbabwe-1.htm|access-date=2020-12-17|website=WUR|language=en-us|archive-date=12 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412204251/https://www.wur.nl/en/activity/Agronomic-and-environmental-studies-of-potato-Solanum-tuberosum-L.-and-analysis-of-its-value-chain-in-Zimbabwe-1.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>