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From Kyela’s Cocoa Terraces to London’s Premium Shelves: Mababu Chocolate’s UK Expansion Marks New Chapter in Tanzania’s Value Addition Story

May 1, 2026 · 11 min read

The award-winning tree-to-bar brand expands international distribution, proving Tanzanian agricultural products can compete—and win—on global premium markets Kilimokwanza Special Report | May 1, 2026…

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Mzee wa Nyuki: Kaizirege Camara’s 25 Years of Beekeeping — and How He Got to the UK Market

April 30, 2026 · 4 min read

For 25 years, Kaizirege Camara has kept bees and built a business around the hive. Today he exports Tanzanian honey, rice, flour, and beans…

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The Tuber of Transformation: Chipsi Mayai, Chips Mwitu, Chips Mishkaki and Chips Kuku

April 30, 2026 · 26 min read

“Chipsi mayai, chips mishkaki, chips kuku, chips mwitu, bajias, viazi karai, mukimo, atakilt wat — one tuber, a continent of flavours.” A Comprehensive Socio-Economic…

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Tanzania Kept Its Promise to the Corridor. Now the Corridor Must Deliver for the Farmer.

April 30, 2026 · 17 min read

Kilimokwanza.org | Strategic Feature  ·  AGCOT Corridor  ·  April 2026 AGCOT in Review  ·  Ten-Year Public Investment Analysis  ·  Corridor Progress Report Tanzania Built…

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Tanzania: 28 Value Chains (crops) the budget speech names

April 30, 2026 · 11 min read

From cotton to cardamom, from sunflower to cocoa, from apples to avocado — the Ministry of Agriculture’s 2026/27 budget speech is, on close reading,…

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In the Clove Fields of Tanzania, a Development Model Takes Root

April 30, 2026 · 10 min read

A Dutch-funded agroforestry project in rural Morogoro is showing how nature-based agriculture, farmer training, and market linkage can work together, one seedling at a…

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Shangi Kinga: How Dr. Moses Nyongesa is Rewriting Kenya’s Potato Story

April 29, 2026 · 6 min read

A career scientist’s 12-year journey to give Kenya’s most popular potato variety a fighting chance against its deadliest enemy Kilimokwanza.org TIGONI, Limuru — In…

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From one corridor to four: AGCOT goes national

April 29, 2026 · 8 min read

What started as a southern pilot is now a four-corridor national framework. The FY 2026/2027 Hotuba confirms what AGCOT stakeholders have been working toward…

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Why Tanzania’s agriculture budget is the most consequential in East Africa right now , and what its trajectory tells us about the future of African food systems

April 28, 2026 · 13 min read

In June 2025, Kenya cut its agriculture sector budget. So did Uganda. Ethiopia’s allocation has remained flat at roughly 0.3% of GDP for years.…

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Securing the Green Gold: How COPRA Is Anchoring Tanzania’s Avocado Boom in Mbeya

April 28, 2026 · 9 min read

April 2026 In the highland slopes of Rungwe, where mist still clings to the volcanic ridges at sunrise and orchards roll deep into the…

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Tanzania’s Agricultural Corridors: Anchoring AgriRise in the Long-Term Perspective Plan

April 26, 2026 · 9 min read

How AGCOT’s Corridor Development Framework Positions Tanzania as a Regional Agricultural Transformation Hub Tanzania has a $1 trillion aspiration and 25 years to realise…

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Scientists Sound Alarm on Soil Crisis Threatening Global Food Security

April 25, 2026 · 18 min read

WORLD AGRICULTURE FORUM | EARTH DAY SPECIAL REPORT The Dirt Beneath Our Feet Is Running Out of Time: A landmark global forum convened on…

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LAND HEALTH COMPACT Morogoro & Iringa Regions Signed 23 April 2026  ·  Sunset Hotel

April 25, 2026 · 4 min read

Supporting Tanzania’s Agriculture Master Plan 2050 What Is This Compact? The Morogoro–Iringa Land Health Compact is a formal, multi-stakeholder agreement to coordinate action on…

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Eight Years On: How Tanzania’s 2016 Seed Law Roadmap Reshaped Agricultural Development

April 24, 2026 · 9 min read

A landmark legal guide published in 2016 set the foundation for sweeping reforms in Tanzania’s seed sector. From corporate licensing to farmer variety recognition,…

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“Avocados are a good pension” Inside Beno Mgaya’s Feeding-First Philosophy for High-Yield Avocado

April 20, 2026 · 12 min read

When the farmer behind the “300 kilos per tree” claim invites you into his orchard, the grass on the ground turns out to be…

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Green Gold Goes East: Inside Tanzania’s Coming-of-Age Moment in the Indian Avocado Market

April 19, 2026 · 17 min read

It began with a cardboard box, a Finnish potato enthusiast, and a small Tanzanian company knocking on cold doors in the Netherlands. A decade…

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From Orchard to Ocean: Franklin Bagalla’s Tomoni Farm and the SFO Movement

April 19, 2026 · 4 min read

A horticulture farmer in Kibiti built something unusual — a quarterly gathering of professionals willing to sleep in tents, eat buffet meals, and reimagine…

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Twenty Names, One Mission: Inside the World Agriculture Forum’s New Country Director Bench — and What It Means for Global Food Systems

April 19, 2026 · 19 min read

The Netherlands-headquartered World Agriculture Forum has named twenty Country Directors across Africa, Asia, the Gulf, Europe and the Americas. The appointments mark the operational…

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The Day a Banana Farm in Kilosa Changed the Conversation About Poverty in Morogoro

April 15, 2026 · 7 min read

It began, as many revolutions do, with something ordinary. Praxeda Melkior, co-founder of Migeto Farm in Kilosa district, had planted lemongrass — mchai chai…

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Kenya Airways Subsidiary Takes to the Fields: Fahari Aviation and CropLife Kenya Sign Drone Agriculture Deal

April 15, 2026 · 4 min read

A new partnership between an aviation company and a crop protection body signals Kenya’s serious pivot toward precision farming — and raises the question…

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Tanzania’s Vegetable Crisis: What CGIAR Research Reveals About What Women in Arusha and Kilimanjaro Are and Are Not Eating

April 12, 2026 · 6 min read

Seven research briefs from the CGIAR Science Program on Better Diets and Nutrition paint a detailed and troubling picture: nearly all women surveyed consume…

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How the Potato Council of Tanzania Is Driving a Potato Transformation That Changes Lives

April 10, 2026 · 15 min read

A humble tuber grown in the mists of the Southern Highlands is quietly transforming the fortunes of thousands of Tanzanian families. With the founding…

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Khalid Mgaramo: How public–private trust is actually built

April 9, 2026 · 18 min read

Ihemi Cluster  ·  Iringa & Njombe  ·  March 2026 Khalid Mgaramo:How public–private trustis actually built By Kilimokwanza Correspondent Ihemi Cluster Field Report  ·  March…

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Buy It or Lease It: Farm For the Future Opens Its Agro-Dealer Catalogue to Farmers and Cooperatives Across Tanzania

April 8, 2026 · 6 min read

Farm For the Future, operating from Ilula in Iringa and backed by Norwegian agricultural equipment manufacturers Underhaug AS and Kverneland Group, has launched a…