African Agriculture and Food Systems
Beyond the FY 2026/2027 numbers, the Hotuba sets out the destination Tanzania’s agriculture sector is meant to reach by 2030. Six targets stand out.…
Five years into President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s administration, Tanzania’s agriculture sector tells a story almost entirely in numbers — and the numbers are unusually…
The fourteen-year experiment that mobilised $6.34 billion and reached a million farmers is now the template for nationwide commercialisation Kilimokwanza Special Report When President…
The FY 2026/2027 ask of Tsh 1.106 trillion is slightly smaller than this year’s. Read closely, the shape of the spending tells a sharper…
352 youth trained in sisal value addition — 305 of them women. 100 cashew-shelling machines for 2,800 youth and women in the cashew belt.…
For 25 years, Kaizirege Camara has kept bees and built a business around the hive. Today he exports Tanzanian honey, rice, flour, and beans…
1,250 sets of pumps, generators and pipes are being distributed to smallholder farmers in seven regions. 250 are deployed; 1,000 more are queued. When…
“Chipsi mayai, chips mishkaki, chips kuku, chips mwitu, bajias, viazi karai, mukimo, atakilt wat — one tuber, a continent of flavours.” A Comprehensive Socio-Economic…
Kilimokwanza.org | Strategic Feature · AGCOT Corridor · April 2026 AGCOT in Review · Ten-Year Public Investment Analysis · Corridor Progress Report Tanzania Built…
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,…
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…
Tanzania’s commodity boards have hired 1,434 young agricultural graduates as field extension officers in a single year. It is the most concrete youth-employment data…
An African Development Bank-backed guarantee is now mobilising more than double its own value in lending to young farmers and women-led agribusinesses. AGITF is…
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…
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…
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.…
April 2026 In the highland slopes of Rungwe, where mist still clings to the volcanic ridges at sunrise and orchards roll deep into the…
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…
WORLD AGRICULTURE FORUM | EARTH DAY SPECIAL REPORT The Dirt Beneath Our Feet Is Running Out of Time: A landmark global forum convened on…
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…
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,…
When the farmer behind the “300 kilos per tree” claim invites you into his orchard, the grass on the ground turns out to be…
It began with a cardboard box, a Finnish potato enthusiast, and a small Tanzanian company knocking on cold doors in the Netherlands. A decade…
A horticulture farmer in Kibiti built something unusual — a quarterly gathering of professionals willing to sleep in tents, eat buffet meals, and reimagine…