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Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) 2013 Rural Livelihoods assessment
Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZIMVAC)
July 15, 2013

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Assessment purpose

Broad objective

• To assess the food and nutrition security for the rural population of Zimbabwe and update information on their key socio-economic profiles.

Specific objectives

• To estimate the rural population that is likely to be food insecure in the 2013/14 consumption year, their geographic distribution and the severity of their food insecurity.
• To describe the socio-economic profiles of rural households in terms of such characteristics as their demographics, access to basic services (education, health services and safe water and sanitation facilities), assets, income sources, incomes and expenditure patterns, food consumption patterns and consumption coping strategies.
• To assess the availability and access to agricultural inputs and produce markets.
• To assess crop post-harvest practices and identify opportunities for addressing potential post-harvest losses.
• To assess access to education, and safe water and sanitation facilities by rural households and identify challenges to optimum access of the services.
• To identify development priorities for rural communities in all rural provinces of the country.
• To assess the nutrition status of children 6-59 months in sampled households.

Technical scope

The 2013 Rural Livelihoods Assessment collected and analysed information on the following areas:

• Household demographics
• Access to education
• Water and sanitation
• Food consumption patterns, food sources, household hunger scale, consumption coping strategies, and nutrition
• Income and expenditure patterns and levels
• Smallholder Agriculture (crop and livestock production, community gardens and irrigation)
• Production and consumption of small grains
• Post-harvest management by Smallholder Farmers
• Household food security
• Community livelihood challenges and development priorities

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