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  • Value chain upgrading and inclusion of smallholders in markets: Role of multistakeholder processes in dairy development in Tanzania

    May 15, 2017 Editor 0

    Women members of the Ubiri village dairy innovation platform in Lushoto, Tanzania (photo: ILRI\Niels Teufel). Increasingly, value chain approaches are integrated with multistakeholder processes to facilitate inclusive innovation and value chain upgrading of smallholders. This pathway to smallholder integration into agri-food markets has received limited analysis. An analysis of this integration was carried out by […]

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  • Characterization of local chicken production and management systems in Babati, Tanzania

    September 26, 2016 Editor 0

    Most rural households in Tanzania like in other African countries, keep local chickens as a primary source of protein and income. Chicken are also regarded as one of the strategies for poverty alleviation among poor smallholders. Most chicken in Africa are kept in free range systems where they mostly scavenge on available food sources that are supplemented with whole grains or kitchen leftovers. As a […]

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  • Feeding innovation – lessons from India and Tanzania

    September 14, 2016 Editor 0

    The milkIT (enhancing dairy-based livelihoods in India and Tanzania through feed innovation) project aimed to contribute to improved dairy-derived livelihoods in India and Tanzania via intensification of smallholder production focusing on enhancement of feeds and feeding using innovation and value chain approaches. Financed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the project was organized around […]

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  • African Dairy Genetic Gains Program: Innovative private-public partnership for sustainable dairy productivity in Ethiopia and Tanzania

    August 5, 2016 Editor 0

    Leveraging private and public partners is key to increased productivity in the dairy sector, according to a poster by scientist from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)-led project African Dairy Genetic Gains. The scientists explore some challenges facing dairy farmers within developing countries, illustrating how these dairy production difficulties can be overcome through the establishment […]

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  • No small change: Vegetable farmer cashes in on new vegetable varieties in Tanzania

    May 30, 2016 Editor 0

    Ripe tomatoes in a field (photo credit: IITA/Jonathan Odhong’). By Andreas Gramzow, World Vegetable Center. ‘I grow vegetables because they provide ready cash for me and my family,’ says a beaming Hassan Saidi; one of the farmers who has benefited from activities led by the World Vegetable Center (AVRDC)  under the Africa RISING-NAFAKA and TUBORESHE CHAKULA project for fast […]

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  • More milk in Tanzania – mid-term update reports progress and lessons

    February 29, 2016 Editor 0

    For the past several years, the International Livestock Research Institute has worked closely with Sokoine University of Agriculture, Heifer International, Faida Faida Market Linkages, the Tanzania Dairy Board and other partners in a project to identify entry points, generate evidence and pilot interventions for inclusive upgrading of smallholder dairy value chains in Tanzania.

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