EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

1 Welcome Addresses

1.1 Minister of Lands and Agriculture of Zimbabwe

1.2 Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), Germany

1.3 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

1.4 FAO- Sub-Regional Representative for Southern and Eastern Africa

2 Workshop Introduction and Objectives

3 Workshop Process and Organization

3.1 Workshop methodology

4 Workgroup Results

4.1 Technologies in Conservation Tillage

4.1.1 Summary of group findings

4.2 Contill Practice in Zimbabwe – Field Excursions

4.2.1 Hinton Estate Farm and its Outreach Programme

4.2.2 The AGRITEX Conservation Tillage Programme, Institute of Agricultural Engineering (IAE) and Musana Communal lands

4.2.3 Sanyati Communal Area, Kadoma District

4.3 Approaches for the dissemination of conservation tillage technologies

4.4 Socio-economic and institutional frame conditions

4.5 Some observations on workgroup conclusions

5 Workshop Follow Up

5.1 National Action Plans

5.2 Regional action plans

5.3 Potential future Networking Strategies

5.4 Follow-up activities

6 Workshop Evaluation

7 FAO INTERNATIONAL GUIDELINES ON CONSERVATION TILLAGE FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE (Workshop Part II)

8 Valedictory Address

8.1 Minister of Environment, Zimbabwe

8.2 Closing speech by ARC

9 Group Photo

10 Workshop Programme

11 Participant List