State-directed agricultural policy is an essential aspect of promoting agricultural production to achieve food security in the contemporary development discourse and practice. While it featured in the economic growth and development of the industrialized economies and in recent decades, East Asian and Latin American economies, agricultural policy has had little to no impact on agricultural growth in Africa generally but more specifically in Zimbabwe. In this thesis I track the state of agricultural production from 1980 to 2019, demonstrating how land reform policy during this period has negatively impacted the agricultural sector and examine the impact of the command agriculture policy (2016 – 2019) on food production focusing on the Makoni rural district in Manicaland. Utilizing empirical research and findings on production output and the role of the state, I argue that agricultural policy in the country has negative impacts on food production and by extension food security given the command agriculture programme’s failure to deliver on its promise of increased food production, reduced imports and agrarian transformation