Kilimo Kwanza
African Agriculture and Food Systems
STATEMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY DR. JAKAYA MRISHO KIKWETE, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA, AT THE OPENING OF THE AFRICAN GREEN REVOLUTION FORUM 2012, 27th SEPTEMBER 2012, ARUSHA, TANZANIA
Your Excellency Dr. Kofi Annan, Chairman of the African Green Revolution Alliance (AGRA); Your Excellency Dr. Eng. Gervais Rufyikiri, Second Vice President of the Republic of Burundi; Your Excellency Ambassador Seif Iddi, Second Vice President of Zanzibar; Honorable Ministers; Distinguished members of the diplomatic Corps; Invited Guests; Ladies and Gentlemen; It gives me great pleasure […]
Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete and Kofi Annan challenge African leadership to take food security action.
African Green Revolution Forum to convene global and international leaders Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (23 August 2012) – The President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Hon. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete and Former United Nations Secretary-General and Board Chair of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Kofi Annan, today announced that Tanzania will […]
RURAL-URBAN MIGRANTS – CHALLENGES TO KILIMO KWANZAINITIATIVES IN THE RUAHA RIVER BASIN, IRINGA REGION
AGRA spends over USD26m for agriculture in Tanzania
Tanzania, a country endowed with large tracts of arable land, has the potential to feed the whole of Africa, according to the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). AGRA Director of Communications Sylvia Mwichuli said yesterday that Tanzania’s potentiality in agriculture lies with the empowerment of smallholder farmer to transform their activities into profitable […]
Private sector wish list to boost and transform horticulture sub-sector in Tanzania
Dar es Salaam; 12th December 2012Tanzania’s horticultural industry investments and development facesmultifaceted challenges that need to be urgently addressed throughpublic private partnership for best solutions as matter of necessity.Participants at a horticulture stakeholders’ incentive meeting held inDar es Salaam ( 7th December 2012) noted that inadequate supportpolicies and regulatory framework exacerbated by poor infrastructureand insufficient […]
Transforming Tanzania’s Agrarian Sector through Maize Breeding
Transforming Tanzania’s Agrarian Sector through Maize Breeding By: Arnold A Mushongi (PhD), National Maize Breeder, Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (ARI) – Uyole P. O. Box 400 Mbeya Tanzania February 29th 2012 i Table of contents Background …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………1 Importance of maize in Tanzania……………………………………………………………………………………………………1 Advantage of use of improved cultivars ………………………………………………………………………………………….2 Constraints to maize production in Tanzania […]
African farmers’ struggle to be in business, bearing fruits slowly
By Anthony Muchoki The magic that could propel farmers to better lives across Africa seems to be improved seeds and access to assured markets for their produce, and there lies the rock and hard place. Visiting rural farmers in Tanzania, Kenya, Ghana, and Malawi, the picture is the same- access to improved seed varieties, which […]
President Kikwete outlined the major investment opportunities to include agriculture, agribusiness, manufacturing (extractive industry), infrastructure, tourism and private public partnership
African investment Forum 2011 Programme Presidential Country Roundtables with Business Leaders-Tanzania The Tanzanian interactive session, which opened with the theme of Unleashing the Potentials of Agriculture in East Africa, was chaired by Mr. Sakum Shamte, the Chairman Agricultural Council of Tanzania. The session looked at the investment opportunities not only in Tanzania Mainland, but also […]
Putting Farmers First is Top Priority for a Stable Africa
By Namanga Ngongi The toxic combination of high food prices and revolt rolling across North Africa should give many African governments cause for great concern. While it is difficult to predict the future, I believe it is safe to say that African governments who fail to address the structural issues that undermine the continent’s food […]