Tanzania-Resource Reliance

• Tanzania Local Scale Solution


  Goat Aid - Bottom-Up aid
• Toggenbung goats


  -3L of milk everyday

  -£400 each

  -£200,000 pound donated
• Conditions of getting goats

  • Villagers had to learn how to use them before getting them
  • Had to be repaid (if rule not placed goats would not be treated correctly)
• Advantages of Goat Aid?

  • Earn triple
  • Pay for education
  • Improve farming methods
  • Improve food security
  • Buy items for themselves e.g. clothes
• Disadvantages of goat aid

  • goats need water and it is scarce
  • Goats can damage land because of hooves and grazing
  • small scale project means small impact
  • poverty has increased even though hooved animals increased from 275 million to 655 million
• What is a national scale attempt to solve food security?

  Tanzania wheat production
• How did Tanzania grow wheat with the wheat program?

  • Request Canada for aid and got $95 million from 1968-1993
  • Programme covered 26,400 hectares in Hanang District
  • 60% of all of Tanzania’s wheat (food and jobs)
• Disadvantages of the wheat programme?

  • yield was mostly low, could be cheaper to import
  • did not create too many jobs
  • the area was inhabited by Barabaigs which caused conflicts
• Impacts on the people of Tanzania for the wheat programma?

  • Nomads forced off land
  • bread goes to urban rich not rural poor
  • loaf costs 63p on average £10 a week wages
• What is another national scale project to solve food security?

  • SAGCOT - Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania
  • (Top-down scheme)
• What is SAGCOT?

  a large project started ib 2010 to improve farming in Tanzania’s growth corridor
• Why was this area of land chosen for SAGCOT?

  • very fertile land meaning better crop yields.
  • highways connect to major agri-zones to consumers in Dar, Arusha, Nairobi and Lusaka.
  • International airport connected
• Disadvantages of SAGCOT?

  • small land owners not been involved in decision making
  • mostly beneficial for commercial farms
  • Nomadic tribes losing access to water