Food security: Tanzania not out of the woods yet

NGO hails Tanzania's efforts on food security
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TANZANIA is one of sub- Saharan countries taking comprehensive measures to ensure food security for their people and neighbouring countries. Speaking at the end of an International Symposium on Innovation and Technology in the Phosphate Industry ...

Over 120 agricultural stakeholders are meeting for a three-day conference to find  strategies to accelerate progress of innovative agriculture towards a stable food and nutrition security in the country.

Zanzibar food security policy stalls
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THERE have been delays for Zanzibar to implement its National Food Security and Nutrition policy due to lack of funds, the House of Representatives was informed on Friday. Zanzibar Food Security and Nutrition Council (ZFSNC) was established in 2012, ...

>The initiative by International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) to enhance the capacity of the government to implement climate change policies meant to ensure Tanzania attains food security is most laudable.

On 31th March, 2014, the Government of Japan and the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania will sign Exchange of Notes for the Japanese Grant Project “The food security project for underprivileged farmers”.
The grant which will be provided from the Government of Japan, amounts to three hundred and eighty million Japanese Yen (\380,000,000), approximately six billion ninety million Tanzanian Shillings (Tsh 6,061,000,000).
This project aims to improve food production, especially...

>Leaders meeting in Davos this week are confronted with some critical challenges. One of them is how to realize the bright prospects of African agriculture.

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Food security strategies bear fruit
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PRESIDENT Ali Mohamed Shein has said that Zanzibar has been recording increased food production since it revived strategies in promoting agriculture, three years ago. He said that the government has intensified efforts to promote the agriculture revolution ...
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Agricultural researchers from different institutions in Tanzania and the US will be meeting this week in Morogoro to discuss progress of some research activities they are conducting aimed at addressing food insecurity in the country.

Locust swarms in East Africa pose additional challenge in the continent's fight against coronavirus.