Zimbabwe Climate Smart Agriculture Investment Plan
This report presents a climate smart investment plan (CSAIP) for Zimbabwe’s agricultural sector. The agricultural sector plays a critical role in the Zimbabwean economy, serving as a source of livelihood for approximately 70 percent of the populati...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/699841576667698462/Zimbabwe-Climate-Smart-Agriculture-Investment-Plan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33112 |
| Summary: | This report presents a climate smart
investment plan (CSAIP) for Zimbabwe’s agricultural sector.
The agricultural sector plays a critical role in the
Zimbabwean economy, serving as a source of livelihood for
approximately 70 percent of the population and contributing
15 to 20 percent to gross domestic product (GDP). In
response, the Government of Zimbabwe, with the assistance of
the World Bank, is supporting the development of this CSAIP.
This CSAIP identifies and prioritizes packages of CSA
investments and policy actions that will support improvement
across three key CSA pillars, namely the achievement of a
more productive, resilient, and low-emissions agricultural
sector. It provides guidance on implementation mechanisms
for these CSA interventions, discussing details such as
investment costs and supporting institutional arrangements.
It seeks to align goals and objectives across Zimbabwe’s
existing agricultural policies and climate change
strategies, which will contribute to the achievement of the
country’s vision 2030, and the nationally determined
contributions (NDCs), among others. Additionally, this CSAIP
is intended to serve as an input to developing a new,
climate resilient Zimbabwe AIP for the future. This report
is structured as follows: chapter one gives introduction;
chapter two presents relevant background information on
climate change and Zimbabwe’s agricultural sector; chapter
three describes the methodology of how the general CSAIP
approach was applied to the specific case of Zimbabwe’s
agricultural sector; chapter four presents some analytic
results highlighting the challenges that will be faced by
Zimbabwe’s agricultural sector under an uncertain future and
provides evidence in support of the role of CSA in
addressing these vulnerabilities; chapter five presents
results of the process of producing prioritized packages of
CSA investments and takes a detailed look at each of these
recommended packages; and chapter six concludes with a
summary, a set of recommendations and next steps. |
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