In Zimbabwe, over 70 percent of the population depends on agriculture for their livelihoods. Climate change is threatening agricultural productivity and exacerbating some of Zimbabwe’s key agricultural challenges: low soil fertility, reliance on rain-fed systems, poorly functioning markets, and farmers’ limited access to credit, knowledge and best practices. To address these challenges, FAO, the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DfID) and partners are implementing the Zimbabwe Livelihoods and Food Security Programme (LFSP) with the aim of improving agricultural productivity and creating income security for over 127 000 farmer households in 8 districts in Zimbabwe. To date, the programme has already reached a total of 141 000 food insecure farming households, 14 000 households more than originally planned, in increasing their agricultural productivity and improving their income, food and nutrition security.