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The Livelihoods and Food Security Programme (LFSP) is working towards reducing rural poverty through increased farm productivity and incomes for at least 200,000 beneficiary households in four provinces in Zimbabwe. Phase I of the LFSP was implemented from 2015 to July 2018 with a total funding of 34,114,959 GBP from UKaid. Due to its success, the LFSP has been extended to Phase II (ending in 2020) with additional funding of 15, 2 million GBP so far. The LFSP is being implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Zimbabwe and Palladium, in partnership with WeltHungerHilfe Zimbabwe, World Vision Zimbabwe, Practical Action and the Government of the Republic of Zimbabwe through the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement. The programme is being implemented in four provinces covering 12 districts, namely, Mutasa, Mutare, Makoni, Guruve, Bindura, Mt Darwin, Mazowe, Zvimba, Shurugwi, Kwekwe, Gokwe North and Gokwe South.