Our conservation agriculture (CA) training programme to empower destitute farm workers and their wives focuses on the Chegutu district in Mashonaland West province. When required, we also provide the training to church and community leaders.

 

The training comprises:

 

• Monthly 5-day conservation agriculture training courses pioneered by Foundations for Farming, who provide us with expert trainers -          View the Course Content Here 

• Teaching trainees how to feed a family for a year on just one sixteenth of a hectare

• Follow up training and ongoing monitoring by our national co-ordinator

• Providing our trainees and others in their communities with our own open-pollinated seed packs that include a step-by-step CA instruction manual

 

VIEW CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE INSTRUCTION MANUAL HERE

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Prior to the controversial farm invasions in 2000, an estimated 350,000 farm workers were employed on commercial farms owned by about 4,500 white farmers. Their dependants numbered between 1.8 and 2 million.

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In 2009, the Commercial Farmers’ Union reported that more than 250,000 farm workers had lost their means of livelihood. Research conducted by Justice for Agriculture showed that 1.3 million farm workers and their families had been affected during the preceding eight years of violence.