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Tapping into the United Republic of Tanzania's "Green gold

FAO helping the United Republic of Tanzania gain access to new international avocado markets










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    Local economy-wide impact evaluation of the United Republic of Tanzania’s Productive Social Safety Nets 2023
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    To reduce extreme poverty and break its intergenerational transmission, in 2012 the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania initiated the Productive Social Safety Net (PSSN) – the flagship social protection programme implemented by the Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF). The PSSN is based on a set of integrated interventions targeted for the poorest and most vulnerable households: i) a labour-intensive public works (PW) programme; ii) conditional cash transfers (CCTs); iii) a Livelihood Enhancement (LE) component providing support to households' economic driven interventions (such as community savings and investments); and iv) Targeted Infrastructure, supporting development and rehabilitation of social infrastructures under education, health and water sectors. During the period 2013–2019, TASAF vastly scaled up the programme in five waves, enrolling 1.1 million households and 5.1 million individuals in 9 960 communities, representing approximately 10.5 percent of the total population. A randomized impact evaluation was embedded within the scaled-up design of the PSSN, which found that even after a short period of implementation (2015–2017), the PSSN achieved several objectives including: increased consumption and food security, investment in better living conditions and human capital accumulation. To complement the findings of the official PSSN impact evaluation, in this study we analyse the indirect effects of the PSSN on the overall local economy.
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    Mapping territorial markets in the United Republic of Tanzania
    Summary report
    2023
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    Smallholder farmers are responsible for most of the food consumed in the world, as well as most of the investments made in agriculture. They operate largely in a range of local and national markets that are embedded in territorial food systems, also known as “territorial markets”. From a consumer perspective, these markets serve as key retail outlets for access to the foods needed for healthy diets, in particular fresh fruits and vegetables, fish, meat and staple foods. Despite their importance however, data concerning territorial markets – such as the availability of food groups, food retailers and consumer profiles – are not often included in national data collection systems. As a result, they are often neglected in strategies aimed at improving nutrition, reducing poverty and fostering local economies. This booklet presents data and results from the mapping territorial markets in the United Republic of Tanzania.
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    United Republic of Tanzania: El Niño impact assessment highlights
    May 2024
    2024
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    This document presents the highlights of an impact assessment conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, the Tanzania Vulnerability Assessment Committee, the Ministry of Agriculture’s Crop and Livestock Departments, and the World Food Programme, to understand the impact of El Niño on agricultural production and livelihoods in the United Republic of Tanzania. The comprehensive assessment approach included an innovative combination of four components: maize yield forecasts using a NASA Harvest model; a household survey that reached 1 200 households across the eight regions conducted in May 2024; an agriculture sector damage and loss assessment; and a seed assessment conducted through interviews with key informants in the seed sector.

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