Beating hunger, the Chivi experience : a community-based approach to food security in Zimbabwe / Kuda Murwira... [and others] with Clare Tawney ; foreword by Ian Scoones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murwira, K. (Kudakwashe)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food supply--Zimbabwe--Chivi District.

Food supply.

Agricultural innovations--Zimbabwe--Chivi District.

Agricultural innovations.

Zimbabwe--Chivi District.

Physical Description:

x, 150 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Intermediate Technology Publications, 2000.

Summary:

People's participation in development has been promoted for over 20 years, yet it is still commonplace for projects to be predesigned, without more than a token consultation with those farmers for whom they are intended. This book describes a project among small-scale farmers in the drought-prone and arid communal lands of Zimbabwe which, within the broad remit of promoting food security, helped the farmers identify their problems and choose their own solutions to them. The aim of the project was participatory technology development: to extend the range of soil-and-water conserving farming techniques available to men and women, and to help them evaluate and disseminate these and their own traditional techniques so as to improve the returns from their land.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-144).

ISBN:

1853395242

OCLC:

45829404