LIPS-ZIM Project enhances disease surveillance and control in Mat South and Masvingo Provinces.
The €5 million European Union-funded Livestock Production Systems in Zimbabwe (LIPS-ZIM) project led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has, in partnership with the Government of Zimbabwe launched new Gwanda and refurbished Masvingo Provincial Veterinary laboratories to address threats posed by livestock diseases to productivity. The two labs will improve veterinary servic
LIPS-Zim empowers smallholder farmers
FODDER crops such as velvet bean (mucuna pruriens) and lab-lab (lablab purpureus) have bolstered subsistence farmers such as Edson Mbedzi of Chamnangana village, Beitbridge district in Matabeleland South.
Zimbabwe adoption and scaling up of livestock systems project rolls out platforms to improve animal management practices
Zimbabwean partners of the Livestock Production Systems (LIPS-Zim) project have adopted innovation and communication platforms (ICPs) and innovation platforms (IPs) as key approaches of increasing adoption of livestock innovations by farmers and communities in the semi-arid regions of the country.
