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106.	Tanzania to Benefit From $19.7m ADB Loan to SADC Nations
	Tuesday, January 09, 2007  by Admin
	Tanzania is among five member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to benefit from a grant totaling $19.7 million extended by the African Development Bank (ADB) in support of animal disease control.
107.	The Linkages between Trade, Development and Poverty Reduction: Case Study of Cotton and Textile Sector in Tanzania
	Friday, December 08, 2006  by Admin
	Has the process of trade liberalization caused poverty, or has it contributed to its alleviation? This report carries the analysis of how the distributional impact of trade liberalization has affected some sectors in Tanzania, with focus on the impact of the labour market. The case study looks at the impact of international trade as a combined outcome of three forces: trade barriers, infrastructure, and institutional factors; the labour demand effects and the labour supply effects.
108.	Assuring food and nutrition security in Africa by 2020: The Case of Tanzania
	Saturday, October 28, 2006  by Admin
	Despite numerous international conventions on gender equity and equality, the situation in Tanzania is still somber. Women are still at a disadvantage when it comes to participation in decisionmaking, distribution of domestic workload, accessing resources, and appropriating incomes accruing from various household economic activities like agriculture.
109.	ICTs: Transforming agricultural extension?
	Tuesday, October 17, 2006  by Admin
	This summary report, by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation provides an outline of issues and trends in agricultural extension, as they relate to ICTs, with a special emphasis on improving rural livelihoods. It draws on presentations, case studies and discussions from the CTA Observatory, highlighting the potential for, and constraints to, using ICTs for agricultural communication and information exchange and identifies implications of these issues for CTA.
110.	Agriculture Economics Society of Tanzania
	Tuesday, October 17, 2006  by Admin
	This is to inform the public that the 8th AGREST Scientific Conference and Annual General Meeting will be held from December 11th - 14th, 2006 in Morogoro.
111.	Agriculture Economics Society of Tanzania
	Tuesday, October 17, 2006  by Admin
	This is to inform the public that the 8th AGREST Scientific Conference and Annual General Meeting will be held from December 11th - 14th, 2006 in Morogoro.
112.	Assessing market distortions affecting poverty reduction efforts on smallholder tobacco production in Tanzania
	Monday, October 16, 2006  by Admin
	This study attempts to analyse the efficiency of production, the degree of distortion in the markets and the patter of incentives for smallholder tobacco growers in Songea, Tanzania. The study revealed that although tobacco production is potentially a profitable enterprise relative to the international markets, smallholders are paid less than the actual value of their product.
113.	Project on promoting production and trading opportunities for organic agriculture in East Africa
	Tuesday, October 10, 2006  by Admin
	This background paper forms a basis for the implementation of the programme on Promoting Production and Training Opportunities for OA in East Africa under UNEP-UNCTAD Capacity Building Taskforce on Trade Environment and Development (CBTF). The information in this paper comprises of a review of past studies and assessments on OA undertaken in the country, national institutions, international organizations and the donors involved.
114.	Report of the workshop on interventions to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS on smallholder agriculture, food security and rural livelihoods in Southern Africa
	Thursday, September 21, 2006  by Admin
	HIV/AIDS has added significantly to the problems of agriculture and food security in Africa through its effect on subsistence agriculture, where production is highly labor intensive. This report shares the knowledge and experiences on policy responses and effective practices in mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS on rural livelihoods and rural food security and identify actions, strategies and recommendations to strengthen HIV/AIDS mitigation.
115.	Rural Urban Market Linkages - An infrastructure identification and survey guide
	Thursday, September 21, 2006  by Admin
	Food supply and distribution systems in most developing countries are undergoing major changes following rapid urban population growth. This guide offers a simple planning methodology and framework to assist policy makers, non-government organisations and farmer groups to respond to these changes and ensure that rural producers have better access to markets for their products. It focuses on produce flows and the identification of how marketing channels work.
116.	Fostering growth of the rural non-farm sector in Africa: The case of Tanzania
	Friday, August 25, 2006  by Admin
	A survey of small rural enterprises from Tanzania is used to demonstrate quantitatively the economic importance of this sector and to identify participants characteristics and obstacles to the sector expansion and productivity. In contrast to most of the findings for the formal sector where taxation and other regulatory constraints were identified as key in most of the countries, infrastructure constraints pose a formidable barrier to rural households participation in rural non-farm and to investment and increased productivity by existing ones.
117.	Are poor, remote areas left behind in agricultural development: the case of Tanzania
	Tuesday, August 22, 2006  by Admin
	In Tanzania, as in other developing countries, the conventional wisdom is that economic reforms may have stimulated economic growth, but for the benefits of this growth have been uneven, favouring urban households and farmers with good market access. In this paper, a new approach is developed to measuring trends in poverty and inequality and applied to Tanzania in order to explore the distributional aspects of economic growth and the relationship between rural poverty and market access.
118.	The Role of Agriculture in Reducing Poverty in Tanzania: A household Perspective from Rural Kilimanjaro and Ruvuma
	Tuesday, August 22, 2006  by Admin
	This paper explores how farm productivity affects poverty, and how various factor market constraints affect farm productivity. The empirical analysis draws on representative surveys of farm households in Kilimanjaro and Ruvuma, two cash crop growing regions in Tanzania. The findings support a continuing emphasis on increasing agricultural productivity in designing poverty reduction policies.
119.	The Bentley Cropping Systems Fellowship
	Monday, August 21, 2006  by Admin
	This Fellowship provides assistance to Canadian and developing country graduate students with a university degree in Agriculture, Forestry or Biology, who wish to undertake post-graduate, applied on-farm research with cooperating farmers in a developing country. Deadline is October 1st 2006.
120.	Organic Standards for Agriculture Production
	Tuesday, August 15, 2006  by Admin
	Organic culture is a system approach based upon a set of processes resulting in a sustainable ecosystem, safe food, good nutrition, animal welfare and social justice. The TanCert Organic Standard is used for certification of organic production in Tanzania.
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