Government on Tuesday approved the Agriculture, Food Systems and Rural Transformation Strategy 2 (2026–2030), a new roadmap officials say will accelerate Zimbabwe’s drive to become a “food-, feed-, bio-oils- and bio-fuels-secure” agro-industrial hub.
Information Minister Jenfan Muswere announced the plan during Tuesday’s post-Cabinet media briefing, saying it builds directly on the gains of the first Agriculture, Food Systems and Rural Transformation Strategy implemented from 2020 to 2025.
Muswere said the new roadmap is the country’s updated agriculture strategy, designed to consolidate progress made under the first phase. He added that the plan serves as the sector’s implementation framework under the National Development Strategy 2.
He said government had adopted “a food systems approach — a value stream and value creation continuum, emphasising a holistic approach to development.”
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The strategy is centred on five impact areas: Food Security and Food Sovereignty; Nutrition Security; Improved Livelihoods; Agriculture-based and Led Economic Growth; and Land and Tenure Security.
Muswere said the roadmap is structured around ten pillars that will guide implementation from 2026 to 2030: Enabling Policy, Regulatory and Coordination Environment; Sustainable Production and Productivity; Research, Innovation, Technology and Modernisation; Climate Adaptation, Mitigation and Resilience Building; Rural Industrialisation and Rural Development; Investment and Finance; Markets and Trade Development; Enabling Infrastructure Development, Rehabilitation and Management; Land and Tenure Security; and Building Internal Capacity to Deliver Transformation.
Each pillar includes an overarching strategic objective and targeted actions, with government shifting toward a more modern agro-industrial model.
“Zimbabwe seeks to be a ‘food-, feed-, bio-oils- and bio-fuels-secure’ agro-industrial hub, moving away from the ‘food basket status’ mindset of the past,” Muswere said.
Implementation of the strategy will run from 2026 to 2030 as the agriculture component of the final phase of NDS2.
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