ZaRP is a network of partnerships that link people in the UK directly with people in poor rural communities in Zambia. The network provides support, information and small interest free loans at critical stages in people's lives. This support enables them to produce more food and develop a more commercial approach... Many of the farming techniques currently used in Zambia cause soil exhaustion and falling yields. ZaRP wants to see food production increase as a result of a return to more sustainable and appropriate farming techniques. ZaRP doesn't train people; it complements the work carried out by existing charities and donors in Zambia. They fund and deliver training in sustainable farming. ZaRP provides the one-to-one continuing support that is prohibitively expensive for the charities to provide but that is essential for embedding change... These are early days for ZaRP. For the past year we have been running prototype projects in Southern Province and the Copperbelt. We have..