African Agriculture and Food Systems
By Angel Navuri Iringa Region in Southern Highlands of Tanzania can easily provide all the potato needs for East Africa and a large part of Africa, if its full potential is realised. At least, that is how, Sagcot Centre, sees it, after three year of implementing a pilot programme on potato seeds development funded by […]
By Anthony Muchoki Meru Agro-Tours & Consultants Co. Ltd (MATC) or simply Meru Agro has become a household name in all breadbaskets of Tanzania in the last 5 year or so. From a one man show business based in Arusha, to a nationwide presence, it has been no mean feat, for the firm’s founding director, […]
By Anthony Muchoki What does Dr. Kiddo Mtunda, Dr Tulole Bucheyeki and Dr. Arnold Mushongi have in common? Each one of them today, is a head of leading public owned research institution in Tanzania, and are among the few very active crop health scientist (breeders) that the country boasts of. Their story is just a […]
*Tanzania set to become no 1 producer in Africa * East Africa’s most political crop By Anthony Muchoki East African Community (EAC) maize powerhouse, Tanzania has managed to create the right conditions to leapfrog way up as Africa’s topmost corn producer, save for abrupt policy shifts, that stands on the pathway. “Fermenting proper business environment […]
*Model rural village By Anthony Muchoki Tandai Village in Morogoro Rural District is a good case study of a successful rural based farming economy that has led to great transformation characterised by improved livelihood and financial freedom. Located about 45 Kms from Morogoro town, the remote village twin landmark achievements are Kinole (Tandai) Market, often […]
Once upon a time shadows of hopelessness and helplessness deeply engulfed her life. She felt that financial desolation had done her out of a fulfilling and meaningful life. “For years I thought in my lifetime, I would never become financially independent. This started after I dropped out of school in Form II. Farming proved me […]
*High production records, small scale processors on the rise*The crop back at the top as the most important food crop in Zanzibar*Kizimbani variety runaway success By Anthony Muchoki Enjoying the beauty of the bullish cassava plantations at Kizimbani Village, Urban/West Region in Unguja, Zanzibar, it is not easy to see the desolation state that had […]
Introduction Brief on CAADP/Malabo Commitments In 2003, Africa adopted the Comprehensive Africa Development Programme (CAADP), an agriculture-led integrated development framework to boost African Agriculture. With CAADP, the signatory states had committed to investing at least 10% of their budget in the agricultural sector to attain a minimum 6% average annual growth of agricultural Gross Domestic […]
Dar es Salaam Tanzania, MARCH 11, 2016 – The Alliance for a GreenRevolution in Africa (AGRA) has launched a new initiative, theInclusive Green Growth of the Smallholder Agriculture (IGGSAS)Programme in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania(SAGCOT). The initiative, which is supported by the Norwegian Ministryof Foreign Affairs, has an overall goal of increasing incomes […]