African Agriculture and Food Systems
A new partnership between an aviation company and a crop protection body signals Kenya’s serious pivot toward precision farming — and raises the question of whether the sky is now the limit for agricultural transformation. By Kilimokwanza.org CORRESPONDENT | Nairobi, 15 April 2026 When a Kenya Airways subsidiary walks into a room with a pesticide […]
By Kilimokwanza Every tomato that rots in a crate before it reaches a market stall is a double loss. It is income that a farmer will not receive, and it is nutrition that a household will not eat. In northern Tanzania, these double losses are happening at a scale that quietly undermines the food system’s […]
By Kilimokwanza There is a persistent assumption in agricultural development circles that reducing chemical inputs means accepting lower yields. It is an assumption rooted in a version of farming history that treats the Green Revolution’s chemical intensification model as the only path to productivity. A new brief from the CGIAR Science Program on Better Diets […]
By Kilimokwanza There is a tendency, when discussing poor nutrition in Africa, to frame the problem as one of individual choice: people eat badly because they do not know better, or because they lack the discipline to eat well. The research does not entirely support this view. A research brief from the CGIAR Science Program […]
By Kilimokwanza Tanzania has a mobile money success story that much of the world envies. Seven in ten adults use mobile money services. Financial access points now sit within five kilometres of 86 percent of the population. The infrastructure, by any measure, is impressive. And yet, something is not adding up — quite literally. Agriculture […]
There is a story we tell ourselves about hunger and body weight in Africa, and it goes roughly like this: poverty causes undernutrition, and wealth brings better diets. It is a tidy narrative, and like many tidy narratives, the evidence is beginning to complicate it considerably. A new CGIAR research brief, titled Diets and Nutrition […]
Seven research briefs from the CGIAR Science Program on Better Diets and Nutrition paint a detailed and troubling picture: nearly all women surveyed consume far below the recommended daily fruit and vegetable intake, and the consequences are showing up in blood pressure readings, body weight, and market stalls alike. Walk through any market in Arusha […]
A humble tuber grown in the mists of the Southern Highlands is quietly transforming the fortunes of thousands of Tanzanian families. With the founding of the Potato Council of Tanzania and the power of farmer-led programmes, the country is poised to become Africa’s next great potato powerhouse. Kilimokwanza.org –The harvest that changed minds. Songea Municipal Hon. […]
Ihemi Cluster · Iringa & Njombe · March 2026 Khalid Mgaramo:How public–private trustis actually built By Kilimokwanza Correspondent Ihemi Cluster Field Report · March 2026 Khalid Mgaramo joined SAGCOT in 2017 as an infrastructure specialist in Dar es Salaam, moved to Dodoma in 2018 to establish the policy office during the government’s capital transition, and […]
Farm For the Future, operating from Ilula in Iringa and backed by Norwegian agricultural equipment manufacturers Underhaug AS and Kverneland Group, has launched a formal buy-or-lease offering of modern farm machinery targeting smallholder farmers, AMCOS, and agro-dealers across Tanzania. A Tanzanian agricultural enterprise based in Ilula, Iringa has positioned itself as the country’s newest dedicated […]