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Listen to the voices of Tanzania
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Tanzanian warehouse receipt scheme
Rising food prices are having a devastating effect on the poorest people, particularly smallholder farmers in developing countries. A short video being screened during the Second Consultation Session on the Eighth Replenishment illustrates what can happen when smallholder farmers get access to both credit and storage facilities for their grains and what impact that can have on rural incomes and food security. The video features the IFAD-supported Agricultural Marketing Systems Development Programme (AMSDP) in Tanzania and a warehouse receipt component that enables smallholder farmers to store their harvest and then sell it when prices improve. While waiting to sell their grain, farmers can also use it as collateral to borrow cash from a credit cooperative.
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Boosting farmers’ profits through better links to markets
Poor farmers in Tanzania are using mobile phones, e-mail and the Internet to access market information in real time. Market ’spies,’ known locally as shu shu shus, investigate prices and the details of what is selling at local markets, and use their mobile phones to report back to their villages. Soon they might be able to use their phone to access more market information from the Internet. The technology is helping the farmers build better and more collaborative market chains from producer to consumer.
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I Spy
To the market vendors who sell him vegetables and rice, Stanley Mchome is just another customer, albeit one who asks a great many questions. But in reality, Stanley’s inquisitiveness is far more than friendly banter. When he’s not tending to his rice fields in Northern Tanzania, Stanley is a “Mkulima Shushushu” – Kiswahili for “market spy.”
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The
First Mile Project
The First Mile is a pilot project that encourages small farmers,
traders, processors and others in the market chain to work and
think collaboratively, not competitively, to improve their access
to markets and customers. Mobile phones, radio, e-mail and the
Internet are just some of the communications tools being used
to connect those in isolated communities. And while technology
is important, trust and relationship-building are the primary
goals.
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Water
supply and health project in the marginal areas
The rural population of the central dry areas of the United Republic
of Tanzania faces severe constraints due to the lack of safe water
supply and health services. Agricultural production increases
alone are not sufficient to bring about all-round development.
The Water Supply and Health Project in the Marginal Areas is complementing
the production-oriented IFAD Smallholder Development Project for
Marginal Areas
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Dodoma
: Where the elephant sank
Dodoma (Tanzania, United Republic of) became a name before it
became a town. There are different stories about how it happened.
One story is that some Wagogo stole a herd of cattle from their
southern neighbours the Wahehe; the Wagogo killed and ate the
animals, preserving only the tails, and when the Wahehe came looking
for the lost herd all they found were the tails sticking out of
a patch of swampy ground. "Look", said the Wagogo, "Your cattle
have sunk in the mud, Idodomya". Dodoma in chigogo means "it has
sunk". There is yet another story which is most commonly accepted
on the name Dodoma. An elephant came to drink at the nearby Kikuyu
stream (so named after the Mikuyu fig trees growing on its banks)
and got stuck in the mud. Some local people who saw it exclaimed
"Idodomya" and from that time on the place became known as Idodomya,
the place where it sank
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Villagers
at the Helm
The Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF) takes an annual budget
of $15 million and spreads it in small doses across more than
2.200 similar projects in the poorest rural areas of the country,
including the Zanzibar archipelago. A $60 million loan from
the World Bank is financing TASAF's first four year. Drawing
on a national database of poverty statistics, the Fund has pinpointed
the poorest third of Tanzania's districts for its programs.
Rather than have bureaucrats in the capital choose which services
and programs go where, the agency goes straight to the village
and asks them what they need. The villagers take the heim from
designing the project to making it a reality.
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When
small investments reap exponential improvements in children's
lives
MSANGANI VILLAGE – The Omari family's store in Msangani Village
in the district of Kibaha in east central Tanzania is a hub of
village activity. Not only is it the place where villagers buy
their staples, but the shady tree in front is the site of meetings
of the village elders and the place where Msangani's children
and women gather once every three months for Child Health Days.
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Fertilizer
trees: an innovative way to boost food production
In Southern Africa, inorganic
fertilizers are often too costly for the rural poor.
Without access to fertilizers,
farmers struggle to grow food for a growing population. At the
same time, a host of related issues such as deforestation, land
degradation, soil erosion, local climate change, and loss of
biodiversity all hasten the decline of soil fertility.
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Boniface
Mwashende Profits from Sunflower Processing
Boniface
Mwashende is a small-scale sunflower farmer in southern Tanzania,
who processes his crop into profitable oil and seedcake. Sunflower
seedcake is an ideal feed for poultry and other livestock. Boniface
used to take his sunflower to a nearby industrial oilseed processor,
who not only charged him for processing his oilseed but also
made him buy back the seedcake. As a result, Boniface's poultry
enterprise was barely profitable.
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A
little loan goes a long way
Noorkishili Naingisha
and Namamu Nguya are members of the Immemuriti Women’s Group
in Ololosokwan village. After receiving a cash loan from Oxfam
the group has begun making and selling traditional beadwork
as well as investing in some livestock.
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Evolving
styles
‘Nemak’ is one of
three women’s associations in Ngorongoro district that have
received support from Oxfam. It represents the 25 women’s
groups of Endulen Ward. The groups each have about five members,
and carry out a wide range of trading activities, buying and
selling sugar, goats and sheep, cattle, honey, cooking oil,
beadwork and other items. Oxfam made the first loans to help
support the women’s business activities in 2002.
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Water
in Shinyanga
Shinyanga is a town of
about 135,000 people in north-western Tanzania. Its inhabitants
suffered badly in the disastrous droughts which hit Tanzania
in the mid to late nineties.
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