African Agriculture and Food Systems
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…
How AGCOT’s Corridor Development Framework Positions Tanzania as a Regional Agricultural Transformation Hub Tanzania has a $1 trillion aspiration and 25 years to realise it. At the heart…
WORLD AGRICULTURE FORUM | EARTH DAY SPECIAL REPORT The Dirt Beneath Our Feet Is Running Out of Time: A landmark global forum convened on Earth Day brought together…
Supporting Tanzania’s Agriculture Master Plan 2050 What Is This Compact? The Morogoro–Iringa Land Health Compact is a formal, multi-stakeholder agreement to coordinate action on land health, soil security…
A landmark legal guide published in 2016 set the foundation for sweeping reforms in Tanzania’s seed sector. From corporate licensing to farmer variety recognition, the framework has evolved…
When the farmer behind the “300 kilos per tree” claim invites you into his orchard, the grass on the ground turns out to be the teacher. By Kilimokwanza…
It began with a cardboard box, a Finnish potato enthusiast, and a small Tanzanian company knocking on cold doors in the Netherlands. A decade on, Tanzanian avocados are…
A horticulture farmer in Kibiti built something unusual — a quarterly gathering of professionals willing to sleep in tents, eat buffet meals, and reimagine Tanzania’s agricultural future together.…
The Netherlands-headquartered World Agriculture Forum has named twenty Country Directors across Africa, Asia, the Gulf, Europe and the Americas. The appointments mark the operational launch of its national…
By Kilimokwanza Tanzania’s agricultural export performance has been one of the sector’s genuine success stories in recent years. The value of export crops nearly tripled from USD 1.2…
By Elizabeth Shumbusho Agriculture feeds Tanzania. And Tanzania’s youth — statistically — feed agriculture. Young people aged 15 to 35 make up 62.4 percent of Tanzania’s active workforce.…
It began, as many revolutions do, with something ordinary. Praxeda Melkior, co-founder of Migeto Farm in Kilosa district, had planted lemongrass — mchai chai — between her banana…
By Charles Mwangi Tanzania achieved food self-sufficiency in 2025. It is a milestone worth celebrating — the country now produces enough food to feed its population and is…
By Kilimokwanza Somewhere in a research station in Tanzania, a plant breeder is looking at rows of amaranth. Each row is a slightly different genetic line, tested across…
A new partnership between an aviation company and a crop protection body signals Kenya’s serious pivot toward precision farming — and raises the question of whether the sky…
By Kilimokwanza Every tomato that rots in a crate before it reaches a market stall is a double loss. It is income that a farmer will not receive,…
By Kilimokwanza There is a persistent assumption in agricultural development circles that reducing chemical inputs means accepting lower yields. It is an assumption rooted in a version of…