Dowsen Sango
@SangoDos
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Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor. Polite World theorist. Developer of the 'Vital Signs' Approach to Value Chain Development Monitoring
Zimbabwe
Joined May 2014
#LockdownZim Diary 📔 To keep myself and the kids sane in these 21 days, we will be looking for Bugs, Pests and Beetle in the garden 🐜 🐛 🕷 #Covid19Zim
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Major kudos to the brave men and women of the Hurricane Hunters. They risk their lives flying into these high end hurricanes, for meteorological research, analysis, forecasting, and ultimately saving lives. I love the weather more than anything. But not sure I stomach this. You?
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Zimbabwe’s milk production continues on an upward trajectory, with September 2025 output rising 7.85% to 10.57 million litres, up from 9.80 million litres recorded during the same period last year — the highest monthly output this year.
theanchor.co.zw
Talkmore Gandiwa HARARE (FinX) – Zimbabwe’s milk production continues on an upward trajectory, with September 2025 output rising 7.85% to 10.57 million litres, up from 9.80 million litres recorded...
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Showers and possible thundershowers expected for parts of the East/North-East and central interior of Zimbabwe on Friday, with generally clearer conditions expected countywide on Saturday and Sunday. ☀️ 🌦 🌱 🇿🇼
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Moderate tropical storm Chenge is expected to bring rains to northern Madagascar over the weekend. The system is not expected to make Madagascar landfall and is currently of no threat to Zimbabwe.
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Showers and possible thundershowers expected across parts of Zimbabwe for most of the week ahead, clearing up into the weekend. ☀️ 🌦 🌱 🇿🇼
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FAO is facilitating a consultative workshop on strengthening Agricultural Early Warning and Agricultural Information Systems in Zimbabwe. I suggested a systems thinking that incorporate structures, functions, tools, capacities, people and livelihoods.
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Digitising Governments leads to more transparency, and more opportunities for our people. Today we launched Digital Government Africa 2025, hosting 26 nations from across our continent. We must embrace technology, to improve services for citizens and #trade more with each other.
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The price of bananas in Honde Valley can be as low as US$1 for 100 bananas. Apart from a low price the majority of the produce is lost due to lack of market linkages, poor transport network and lack of support infrastructure to minimise other losses.
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La Niña set to unleash summer storms and floods https://t.co/GtveMwnZ7S
enca.com
The Weather Service is warning that a La Niña event will drive above-normal rainfall and higher temperatures.
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@SangoDos @baba_nyenyedzi As ever, it depends… but there are growing numbers, many successful. JV costs may be considerable, but other costs are definitely lower in Zimbabwe than in Zambia. Here’s a blog from a few years ago
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The under-performance of parts of Zimbabwe’s agricultural sector continues. This mostly applies to large estates and some medium-scale farms that were reallocated under the fast-track land reform a…
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The VBU can be modular and other aspects can be layered on it e.g. digitalization etc
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The government should've established VBUs as local aggregation & processing facilities not production. This would in turn stimulated production of the idle land already in existence. The choice of product will be a factor of agronomic-ecological matching and historical successes
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My wild imagination had been some aggregation and value addition hub. Most rural households in Zimbabwe have sizeable land (3ha on average). So production is not constrained mainly by access to land.
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Community gardens have been around for over two decades - popularized by NGOs in the protracted relief era. They're demonstrations plots, seed systems and fallback schemes. Very few have succeeded as commercially viable enterprises due to scale and obvious social capital issues.
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The plot is for the whole village. A village typically consists of 100 households but few were interested. Some had pulled out while others had never been interested. Those who remained were very excited about the development and believed that it would change their fortunes.
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Ever since I started hearing about VBUs, I have been imagining what these could be. This week visited two in as many districts across the country. The typical set up is a 1ha plot with a solar powered borehole, fenced and some gardening/horticultural operations.
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Village Business Units: Wither Zimbabwe? Renaming ‘Community Gardens’ to ‘Village Business Units’ is not what we ordered.
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From classrooms to farms in Thohoyandou 🇿🇦: @FAO and @UNIVEN launch a results-oriented partnership—skills for students & extension officers, open data for faster decisions, and climate-smart practices that boost yields and resilience. Full story ⤵️ https://t.co/gM0zMUwxiD
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From Zimbabwe to the world 🌍🐄 Building a global livestock platform with smart tags + an app that connects farmers, vets & more. #AgriTech #SmartFarming
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