Member profile
Mr. Peter Mtenda
Organization:
Tanzania Federation of Co-operatives (TFC) Limited
Country:
United Republic of Tanzania
Field(s) of expertise:
I am working on:
Research and Marketing and Capacity development
Mr. Peter Mtenda
1. Hunger and Malnutrition, in Tanzania the rural schools under the Government and the child parents agreed on the school feeding program through parents contributions and stakeholders support in provision of school meals to school childrens, the program improves childrens attendance to schools and reduces child labour. The local Goverments also introduce and implement the policy of arresting both childrens not going to school, the parents who not taking their childrens to schools and the farmers who taking their childrens to farms during school hours. This is supervised by village chairpersons, ward executive officers and social policies. The role of agricultural stakeholders is to support farmers to improve agricultural production, farmers access to inputs, credits, extension services, value addition and access to markets.
3. Family Farming, In Tanzania the agricultural producers and marketing co-operatives is linked with saccos or open up credit windows for their farmers to access credits to cover labour costs in their farms. This reduces child labour.
4. Innovation, In Tanzania we have a program of linked Agricultural co-operatives with tractors suppliers, for the co-operatives to access tractors in loan and pay in installment, this improves mechanizations and reduce child labour. Also farmers who also raising cattles/donkey use local mechanization of the hoe driven by animal, this also reduce child labour. TFC and FAO implemented Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools (JFFLS) Program, that built the capacity of youth farmers in best agricultural practices, explore agricultural opportunities in their rural areas, understand child labour and be ambassodors of educating other farmers in combating child labour in rural areas.