Resource reliance

• Babati District


  An area in northern Tanzania where 90% of the population live in villages and depend on agriculture for their livelihood
• Goat Aid programme


  A programme run by the charity Farm Africa between 1999 and 2006 with the aim of improving household nutrition and income for villagers in Babati District
• Farmer: 'I was trained by Farm Africa on dairy goat management and breeding. Every year I get an average of 16 young goats. I sell some and have used the money to buy an ox cart and two bulls for tilling my land, iron sheet and bricks for my house, banana seedlings and equipment for spraying my animals against ticks. The bulls have reduced the time for tilling my 1.4-hectare farm from three days to two hours. I regularly have meat for my family that I could not afford before.'

  
• The Tanzania – Canada wheat project was a past national-scale attempt to improve food security

  
• The Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) is a present national-scale attempt to improve food security