Canada Wheat

• Canada provided $95 million in aid


  1968-1993
• The wheat programme covered 26 400 hectares in Hanang District in northern Tanzania
• Positives of the wheat programme

  • Provided 60% of all Tanzania's wheat
  • Road, rail and electricity connections improved
  • In the 1992 drought, Tanzania was the only country not to rely on food aid
• Negatives of the wheat programme

  • 40,000 Barabaig nomads were forced to move off their grazing land
  • Wheat is too expensive for many people, maize could have been a better option
  • Only a few jobs were created
  • Machines broke down and they didn't have the skills to fix them