- Published by
- Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Examines the seed and commodity market systems for drought-tolerant traditional grains and legumes in Zimbabwe, with a view to guiding the geographic scale-up of the MASAP programme into two additional districts.
Built on a mixed-methods base - a survey of 371 smallholders, 70 key informant interviews and 16 focus groups - it maps current and prospective private sector intervention partners across the seed and commodity chains, profiling each firm's preferred districts, target crops and operating constraints.
A distinctive feature is a transparent weighted scoring model that ranks candidate districts against seven criteria including partner willingness, production volumes, population, irrigation and accessibility, applied separately to northern and southern regions.
The analysis also assesses an emerging Bambara nut value chain, supporting functions such as finance and extension, the policy environment and infrastructure needs, and includes per-crop gross margin estimates.