FAO in Tanzania

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08 January 2018
Food security stakeholders from across the country are meeting in Zanzibar to strategize the roll-out of the Chronic Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) roll-out in Tanzania.  Speaking at the opening of the workshop the Assistant Director, National Food Security Division in the Ministry of Agriculture (Mainland), Ombaeli Obadiah Lemweli, said...
04 December 2017
Delegates from ten Southern African Development Cooperation (SADC) countries are in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania attending a workshop on Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) Laboratory Diagnostic and Technical Assistance on Serology Tests. The aim is to learn and share experiences for surveillance and eradication of PPR in their respective countries and...
23 November 2017
Representatives from the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania, civil society, private sector, academia and media are attending a national, multi-stakeholder seminar on implementing the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) in Dar es...
08 November 2017
Tanzania is hosting a sub-regional workshop on social protection for forest-dependent communities in East Africa in Dar es Salaam on November 8 and 9. The event attracts the participation of governmental authorities responsible for forestry policy/programmes, social protection policy/programmes, and forest producer organizations from Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda...
07 November 2017
Seaweed farming is one of the emerging and important sources of incomes to small holder farmers and also revenues to the Government in Zanzibar. The seaweed farming industry in Zanzibar started in 1989. Seaweed farming has improved the livelihoods of the small holder farmers who use income derived there from to...