African Agriculture and Food Systems
The Eastern and Southern Africa Small Scale Farmers Forum (ESAFF) has called on East African Community (EAC) member states to increase their agricultural budgets to boost food production and address food shortages resulting from drought and climate change. The call was made during the 6th EAC Agriculture Budget Summit, which focused on sustainable solutions to […]
Tanzania The National Irrigation Commission has taken a step towards ensuring food security and increasing agricultural productivity in Tanzania by signing contracts with four contractors to construct irrigation infrastructure worth more than TZS 41 billion. The signing ceremony was attended by the Director of the National Irrigation Commission, Mr. Raymond Mndolwa, who expressed his gratitude […]
Chato, Tanzanaia National Irrigation Commission’s (NIRC) ambitious project to construct the Membe Water Dam in Chamwino district is progressing rapidly, reaching an impressive 45.83% completion milestone. The Membe Water Dam is set to irrigate more than 8,000 hectares of farmland in the region, a crucial development that will help boost the agricultural sector and the […]
Dr. Apollos Nwafor, Vice President, Policy and State Capability, has released the first edition of the FTCA newsletter.
The Centre for African Leaders in Agriculture (CALA), an initiative of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), is now accepting applications for its third cohort of the Advanced Leadership Programme. The programme is a 16-month leadership development program designed to equip senior and rising leaders in Africa’s agriculture sector with the skills […]
Dodoma, Tanzania: The Tanzanian government, under the leadership of President Samia Suluhu Hassan, is set to usher in a new era of agricultural transformation with a strong focus on irrigation farming. Finance and Planning Minister, Dr. Mwigulu Nchemba, announced the government’s resolute commitment to bolstering irrigation agriculture during his address on the estimates of revenue […]
In the face of global climate inaction, the United Nations Food Systems Envoy, Dr Agnes Kalibata, has spoken out on the urgent need for immediate action to address the growing crisis. Speaking with Daphne Ewing-Chow, Senior Contributor Food, Agriculture, and Sustainability for Forbes, Kalibata highlighted the urgent need for a coordinated and sustained effort to […]
Juma Msafiri Abstract The Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) initiative was launched in 2010 to transform Tanzania’s agricultural sector into a sustainable, commercially viable engine of economic growth and food security. SAGCOT aims to promote large-scale agribusiness investments alongside smallholder farmers, encouraging private-public partnerships and infrastructure development to boost productivity. This paper examines […]
President Samia Suluhu Hassan has said that the government will fulfil its promise to enable young people to engage in commercial farming through the large-scale farming program. She does not want to hear that the project has failed. She also wants to see results from the project and warns that the money allocated for agriculture […]
It is necessary to accelerate efforts to train farmers and equip them with the necessary skills and knowledge to produce quality seeds The value of training farmers to modernize and improve yields cannot be gainsaid. The recently concluded quality seed production training by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Tanzania office, in collaboration with several […]