ABSTRACT
The Poverty Assessment Study Survey was undertaken with multi-national funding; sources of assistance included the United Nations Development Programme, the Canadian International Development Agency, Danish International Development Agency, the International Labour Organisation and the Norwegian Agency for International Development. Within the rural land-use sectors, information was obtained on whether households considered they had adequate grazing land, and adequate cropping land. The Overseas Development Administration under the Minister for Overseas Development has become the Department for International Development, under the Secretary of State for International Development, which is now a cabinet position. An improved support of agricultural productivity in rural areas was still needed regardless of land reform, and would be essential to secure the productivity of resettlement activities where land reform takes place. The findings can be used as an invaluable guide to identifying what the Zimbabwe people perceive as most needed focuses for international donor assistance targeting poverty alleviation, and for government policy.
