Farming

The project mobilised the necessary resources to contribute to the sustainable transformation of the Cascades, Hauts Bassins and South-West regions, with significant participation from women.

Tanzania used to have around 600,000 donkeys; the number has however been rapidly shrinking with observers foreseeing total annihilation of these work animals within the next decade.

Traditional methods, such as ear tags, are fragile and easy to falsify, making verification by a banker nearly impossible and turning a woman's most valuable asset into an invalid guarantee.

The National Food Reserve Agency intends to spend over 800 billion/- in purchasing more than 800,000 tons of maize and 150,000 tons of rice from farmers in the country

Dr Muraguri is a Kenyan and British national with a Law degree from Warwick University and a PhD from Queen Mary University of London, UK, specializing in intellectual property management and public private partnerships.

Living conditions in Kalaf and Dafenaytou have been transformed by the introduction of family vegetable gardens, forage plots, adapted farming tools and practical training.

Across the African continent, livestock are one of the leading sources of food security and resilient livelihoods. Livestock production contributes between 30 and 80 percent of the continent’s total agricultural GDP

More than 40 percent of women and 30 percent of the youth population stands to benefit from the new initiative

Despite being the third largest producer of sugar in the East African Region, Tanzania is only capable of generating 482,000 metric tons from the country’s plants in a year.

At the present, the National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) has the capacity to harbor an average of 776,000 tons of grains and cereals procured through a total of 72 purchasing centers across eight regions.