THE KILIMO KWANZA RESOLUTION (Tanzania)

WHEREAS the Tanzania National Business Council (TNBC), under its Chairman, H.E. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, President of the United Republic of Tanzania held a two-day meeting on 2nd and 3rd June 2009 at Kunduchi Beach Hotel, Dar es Salaam, to discuss the policies and strategies for the transformation of Tanzania’s agriculture under the theme “KILIMO KWANZA^1” and its implementation;

AND WHEREAS eighty percent of Tanzanians depend on agriculture for their livelihood;

RECOGNIZING that the greatest challenge facing Tanzania is to combat poverty and that this will be possible mainly through enhanced agricultural productivity;

CONSIDERING Tanzania’s endowment of agricultural land, livestock, and marine resources of which a large proportion is currently underutilized;

REALIZING that Tanzania has the second largest volume of inland fresh water resources in Africa that can be utilized for irrigation;

CONSCIOUS of the fact that so far considerable efforts have been made towards the transformation of agriculture without much success;

IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED to:

1. Embark on KILIMO KWANZA as Tanzania’s Green Revolution to transform its agriculture into a modern and commercial sector;
2. Integrate KILIMO KWANZA into the Government machinery to ensure its successful implementation;
3. Mobilize increased quantum of resources towards the realization of KILIMO KWANZA;
4. Mobilize the private sector to substantially increase its investment and shoulder its rightful role in the implementation of KILIMO KWANZA;
5. Declare that the implementation of KILIMO KWANZA will comprise the following ten actionable pillars:
   • I. Political will to push our agricultural transformation.
   • II. Enhanced financing for agriculture.
   • III. Institutional reorganization and management of agriculture.
   • IV. Paradigm shift to strategic agricultural production.
   • V. Land availability for agriculture.
   • VI. Incentives to stimulate investments in agriculture.
   • VII. Industrialization for agricultural transformation.
   • VIII. Science, technology and human resources to support agricultural transformation.
   • IX. Infrastructure Development to support agricultural transformation.
   • X. Mobilization of Tanzanians to support and participate in the implementation of KILIMO KWANZA.

Details of the above ten pillars of KILIMO KWANZA are elaborated in the action program annexed hereto.