April 8, 2026
by Kilimokwanza
A landmark CGIAR evaluation published in July 2025, covering 2,611 households across 33 villages in five districts, has produced the most granular picture yet of what smallholder farmers in northern Tanzania grow, how they grow it, and what the data reveals about why the region’s nutrition crisis is, at its root, a production crisis. In […]
April 8, 2026
by Kilimokwanza Africa
KILIMOKWANZA SPECIAL SERIES: ON AGCOT • WHAT TRANSFORMATION ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE Eighteen portraits from Tanzania’s agricultural corridor • Batch 4: The AGCOT Leadership • kilimokwanza.org The Board Chairman Who Walked the Fields First Dr. Ally Hussein Laay has chaired the AGCOT Centre board since 2018 – through a pandemic, an institutional rebrand, a USD 6.34 […]
April 7, 2026
by Kilimokwanza
KILIMOKWANZA SPECIAL SERIES: ON AGCOT • WHAT TRANSFORMATION ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE Eighteen portraits from Tanzania’s agricultural corridor • Batch 1: The Farmers • kilimokwanza.org The Farmer Who Is Already Thinking About Old Age Raymond Nyagawa farms one acre of potatoes in Mtwango Village and has approximately 100 avocado trees coming into production. When Geoffrey Kirenga […]
April 4, 2026
by Kilimokwanza
A review of the Hand in Hand Initiative’s Financial & Economic Analysis of the Soybean Value Chain in Tanzania Tanzania’s agricultural sector is sitting on an underexploited goldmine — and a new analytical report from the Hand in Hand Initiative in Tanzania is making the case, with numbers, for why now is the time to […]
April 4, 2026
by Kilimokwanza
The International Finance Corporation has released what it describes as a first-of-its-kind framework to guide investments in regenerative farming — a move that could reshape how development finance flows to agribusinesses across emerging markets. The document arrives at a moment of mounting urgency. One third of global soils are already degraded, agriculture is responsible for […]
April 4, 2026
by Kilimokwanza
IN MEMORIAM — AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE The Scientist Who Fed Two Million Farmers The life, research, and enduring legacy of Dr. Dadili Japhet Majune, Head of Cashew Breeding at TARI Naliendele — Tanzania’s quiet architect of a better harvest, and a vision ahead of its time Kilimokwanza Team, Nakuru, Saturday, April 5, 2026 There are people […]
April 3, 2026
by Kilimokwanza
From the cool slopes of Iringa, a quiet revolution in goat milk production is taking shape, and smallholder farmers are at the centre of it. MAZOMBE, KILOLO DISTRICT, IRINGA: At first glance, a herd of goats grazing on the hillside above Ilula Village looks unremarkable. But look closer, at the animals’ build, their temperament, their […]
March 31, 2026
by Kilimokwanza
*FYDP IV signals a bold new era for agro-industrial transformation, and points directly to where the next phase of corridor development needs to happen* Tanzania has released one of its most ambitious national development blueprints yet. The Fourth Five-Year Development Plan, FYDP IV, covering the period 2026/27 to 2030/31, sets a clear and energising direction […]
March 31, 2026
by Kilimokwanza
Feature Story | Brand Heritage Juma Msafiri: Tanzania Brand History Is One of the Most Underreported Subjects in This Country The corporate decisions. The creative risks. The ownership structures behind the brands we grew up loving — most of it was never passed down to us. We inherited the products. Not the story behind them. […]
March 31, 2026
by Kilimokwanza
A World Bank initiative targets the overlooked engine of agricultural transformation — the small agro-processor There is a paradox at the heart of African agriculture that this brochure opens with, and it is a good one: Why does Tanzania export raw cashew nuts and import processed cashew nuts? It is the kind of question that […]