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Kicking a Crop: The Hidden Agriculture Behind the World Cup | Kilimokwanza
The ball is stitched in Pakistan, but its heartbeat is a tree.…
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Reviving a Lapsed Pact: Tanzania and Türkiye Bet on Farming to Anchor a Deeper Partnership
A decade after their first agricultural accord expired, Dodoma and Ankara are back at the table — this time eyeing irrigation, machinery, cold chains and the skills to…
Africa
The Roots of Transformation: Sub-Saharan Africa Steps onto the Global Potato Stage
NAIVASHA, KENYA — Along the volcanic landscapes of the Great Rift Valley, the cool morning mist rising from Lake Naivasha carries an unmistakable sense of anticipation. At Sawela…
AGCOT
After Years of Frustration, Ruvuma’s Real World Locks In Its Soya Supply
After Years of Frustration, Ruvuma's Real World Locks In Its Soya Supply has…
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‘No business in agriculture if it is not inclusive’: AGCOT’s Kirenga sets the terms for Tanzania’s farm transformation
Ahead of the 10th Africa Agri Expo in Dar es Salaam, AGCOT chief Geoffrey Kirenga argues that Tanzania’s drive for 10% annual agricultural growth will rise or fall…
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From Hive to High Value: Inside East Africa’s apiculture value chain, where honey is now only the beginning, and a sting once feared has become the most valuable thing in the hive.
By Kilimokwanza Reporter | Nairobi • Dar es Salaam • Kampala For generations, an East African beekeeper’s wealth was counted in honey and, occasionally, wax. That calculus is…
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The Man Who Watched His Friend Lose 100 Acres- And What It Taught Him About Why Tanzania’s Farms Keep Failing
Kilimokwanza.org | From the Field — Iringa Region, March 2026 The Land Is Not the Variable After four days walking farms across Njombe and Iringa, AGCOT board member…
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From Chalkboard to Fish Cage: How Tanzania’s BBT Fisheries Drive Is Turning Jobless Graduates into Lakeside Entrepreneurs
From Chalkboard to Fish Cage: How Tanzania’s BBT Fisheries Drive Is Turning Jobless Graduates into Lakeside Entrepreneurs A forum co-hosted by the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries and…
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OPPORTUNITY: Blue Economy Doors Flung Open for Youth Through ‘BBT-Aquaculture’ Initiative Today
DAR ES SALAAM – In a strategic move to tackle youth unemployment, Tanzania’s blue economy sector is set to take a historic leap forward today. A major virtual…
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NMB OPENS MVUHA BRANCH, ENDING AN 80-KILOMETRE JOURNEY FOR BANKING
By Esther Myika MOROGORO — Residents of Mvuha ward and the surrounding villages have been spared the tedious and costly journey of up to 80 kilometres into Morogoro…
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SADC CENTRAL BANK GOVERNORS MEET IN DAR ES SALAAM TO CONFRONT MOUNTING GLOBAL ECONOMIC RISKS
By Esther Myika Central bank governors from member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have met in Dar es Salaam to discuss strategies for confronting the…
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MANGO AND AVOCADO FARMING MUST EMBRACE MODERN ORCHARD SCIENCE TO LIFT YIELDS, ISRAELI EXPERT TELLS DODOMA TRAINING
By Sifa Lubasi, Dodoma An Israeli agriculture and agribusiness expert, Oran Reuveni, has said that avocado and mango farming in the country must adopt modern, professional orchard management…
Africa
Rachel Mbabazi — Kilimokwanza Women of Change
Rachel Mbabazi — Kilimokwanza Women -Celebrating the UN International Year of the Woman Farmer 2026 No. 2 · The Advocate The Woman Who Gave Uganda’s Rice Farmers a…
Africa
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Seven Domains, One Cow: The Dairy Cattle Deep-Dive
Kilimokwanza · Livestock, Fisheries & Apiculture Series · Issue 1 · Dairy Cattle Kilimokwanza| Agriculture & Agribusiness, East Africa Livestock-Fisheries-Apiculture / Issue 1 • 2026
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How to Make Cashew Apple Wine — A Practical Production Guide
How to MakeCashew Apple Wine A practical production guide for East African producers. bibo — usually wasted ———> a bottled, saleable wine
Women of Change
Irene Mlola — Kilimokwanza Women of Change
Irene Madeje Mlola, the banker turned regulator making 120-plus Tanzanian crops commercial. The first in Kilimokwanza Women of Change.
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Twenty Years of Structured Trade: How the Warehouse Receipt System Rewrote Tanzania’s Crop Markets — and Where It Goes Next
Twenty Years of Structured Trade · KilimoKwanza.org KILIMOKWANZA.ORG · Agriculture First WRRB at 20 · Dodoma 2026 WRRB at 20 · Special Report Twenty Years of Structured Trade:…
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MazaoHub: From Guesswork to the Global Stage
How Geophrey Tenganamba turned a childhood of “guesswork agronomy” in rural Tanzania into one of Africa’s most decorated soil-intelligence ventures — and what its place among the world’s…
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Steward Ownership: The Quiet Revolution in How African Agribusiness Is Owned
A financing and governance model that keeps purpose-driven companies out of the hands of speculators is gaining ground across East Africa. As Uganda’s Rootical opens its doors in…
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A Third of a Cow: Kenya Owns 13 Million Cattle. It Farms Like It Has 4 Million
The 70% Question: Decoding Kenya’s National Livestock Research Agenda, 2025–2035 — Kilimokwanza KILIMOKWANZA Agriculture First · Agribusiness, Policy & the Land in East Africa Explainer · Policy Decoded…
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Rain, Money and Machines: The Remaking of Kenyan Agriculture in 2026
Future Fields: Kenya’s Agriculture at the Crossroads of Climate, Capital and Code — Kilimokwanza KILIMOKWANZA Agriculture First · Agribusiness, Policy & the Land in East Africa Feature ·…
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Hidden Gold: How Tanzania’s Potato Boom – and One Corridor Model – Are Rewriting the Highlands
National output has jumped 89% in a single season. Behind the headline sits over a decade of corridor-building by AGCOT, led by Geoffrey Kirenga that gave a generation…