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The impact of access to credit and training on technological adoption: a case of the rice sector in Tanzania

The imbalance between domestic production of rice and rice consumption has been growing in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Nevertheless, one possible strategy for achieving productivity improvement is to seek an Asian-style rice Green Revolution in SSA. This paper tries to investigate conditions and ways to improve rice yie...

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Transforming Tanzania?s Cotton Sector

Initiating the Cotton & Textile Development

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Water Lifting Technology in Tanzania

There are many types of smallholder water lifting technologies (WLTs) used in Tanzania. These include manual irrigation methods such as buckets and watering cans, manual pumping methods (mainly treadle pumps), motorized pumps, wind and solar pumps, and hydram.....

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Quarterly Gross Domestic Product of Mainland Second Quarter 2010

This report presents the official Quarterly Gross Domestic

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A Comparative Analysis of Poverty Incidence in Farming Systems of Tanzania

In Tanzania, the agriculture sector is the main provider of livelihoods for around 80% of the population. Hence, progress in this sector will be central to national poverty reduction. Given the widespread participation, the agriculture sector will continue to play a central role in the Tanzanian economy, and, with an...

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A Global Model for Agriculture and Bioenergy: Application to Biofuel and Food

This paper describes a global model for agriculture and bioenergy (GLOMAB) that incorporates biomass, biofuels and bioelectricity sectors into the GTAP-Energy model by expanding the global GTAP database, production and consumption structures. Biofuels are separated between first- generation (sugar ethanol, starch etha...

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Agricultural growth and poverty reduction in Tanzania 2000-2010: where has agriculture worked for the poor and what can we learn from this?

Agriculture is an economic activity important to achieving the poverty reduction strategy goals of Tanzania. Growth in agriculture has made contributions to GDP, foreign exchange earnings, and income poverty reduction. However, despite high growth, the growth pattern in agriculture (which employed about 70 percent of...

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Agricultural Technology Adoption and Rural Poverty: Application of an Endogenous Switching Regression for Selected East African Countries

Achieving agricultural growth and development and thereby improving rural household welfare will require increased efforts to provide yield enhancing and natural resources conserving technologies. Agricultural research and technological improvements are therefore crucial to increase agricultural productivity and there...

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Agriculture:

Tanzania is endowed with

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AGSTATS For Food Security

The 2009/10 Preliminary Food Crop Production Forecast amounts 12,825,205 tonnes grain equivalent and requirement for 2010/11 amounts 11,414,960 tonnes. In terms of cereals and non-cereals, a self sufficient status1 of 106% implying a sizeable surplus amounting 429,476 tonnes and a surplus status of 124% implying a sur...