FAO in Tanzania

News

03 October 2017
Forest experts have called upon African governments to recognize the importance of and facilitate financing including climate related financing for tree growing and use in sustainable forest and farm management by smallholders and their producer organizations to enhance rural livelihoods and enterprises, as well their contribution to national economies. The call...
29 September 2017
THE Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism for Tanzania, Prof. Jumanne Maghembe, has called upon forest experts from Africa to educate small holder farmers and forest communities about carbon credits trade in order to assure them of income that would reduce their actions that negatively impact on forests.  Prof. Maghembe was...
27 September 2017
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has today handed over pheromone traps to the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries (MALF) to be used for the surveillance of fall armyworm (FAW) outbreak in the country. The 216 traps will also be used for providing early warning to...
15 September 2017
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries (MALF) have reaffirmed their commitment to foster collaboration in the fight against animal diseases that are transmissible to humans and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This comes when FAO’s Director General, Jose Graziano da Silva...
11 September 2017
Twelve of the fifteen member countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to deliberate on challenges facing the livestock sector in the region with special focus on the foot and mouth disease (FMD). Speaking on the side-lines of the meeting, the Senior Animal...