African Agriculture and Food Systems
Coffee at 88% of target, sugar at 59%, tobacco at 93%. Three crops with similar histories, very different current trajectories — and three distinct policy responses in the…
617,684 tons of raw cashew produced in 2025/26. The target was 700,000. Most cashew belts are within striking distance of full delivery. Behind the numbers: 100 shelling machines…
222,014 tons of cotton produced in 2025/26. The target was 400,000. The gap is real — and the recovery plan is concrete: a Simiyu kongani, ginnery revivals at…
After two decades of decline, the cooperative movement is back at the centre of Tanzania’s agricultural story — with 3.36 million members, integrated digital infrastructure, and a fresh…
Without certified seeds, accredited plant-health testing, validated tissue culture and reliable soil analysis, none of the headline targets in the Hotuba are reachable. The FY 2026/27 budget builds…
Subsidies, soil scans, cooperative records, market prices, lab results, weather data, identity verification, payment processing — all of it now flows through one integrated platform. The FY 2026/27…
From Kasumulu to Tunduma to Sirari, Tanzania’s agricultural exports cross at a handful of land borders that have, until recently, been operating well below capacity. The FY 2026/27…
The award-winning tree-to-bar brand expands international distribution, proving Tanzanian agricultural products can compete—and win—on global premium markets Kilimokwanza Special Report | May 1, 2026 In the rolling terraces…
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. Together they describe a…
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 clean. This is the…
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 story: Tanzania is building,…
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. Tanzania’s value-addition agenda is…
For 25 years, Kaizirege Camara has kept bees and built a business around the hive. Today he exports Tanzanian honey, rice, flour, and beans to Britain — and…
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 fully distributed, the kits…
“Chipsi mayai, chips mishkaki, chips kuku, chips mwitu, bajias, viazi karai, mukimo, atakilt wat — one tuber, a continent of flavours.” A Comprehensive Socio-Economic and Culinary Analysis of…
Kilimokwanza.org | Strategic Feature · AGCOT Corridor · April 2026 AGCOT in Review · Ten-Year Public Investment Analysis · Corridor Progress Report Tanzania Built the Foundation. Now the…
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, an inventory of nearly…
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 time By Kilimokwanza.org |…
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 point in the entire…
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 lending Tsh 5.5 billion…
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 the cool highlands of…
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 for two years —…
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. None of the East…
April 2026 In the highland slopes of Rungwe, where mist still clings to the volcanic ridges at sunrise and orchards roll deep into the valleys, a quiet transformation…