• Tanzania middle income country status and implications for future economic growth strategies 

  Turuka, Florens M (TAJAS, 2021)

  Tanzania, having attained a gross national income per capita equivalent to $1,080 graduated from a low-income country to a lower-middle income country, which had a threshold of $1,036 in year 2020. The lower-middle income ...
• Trade development of medicinal plants products in Tanzania: an overlooked research area? 

  Mpelangwa, E.M; Makindara, J.R; Sorensen, O.J; Bengesi, K.M.K; Mabiki, F.P (TAJAS, 2022)

  The existence of trade of products of medicinal plants reflects their significance on health care and the local economy. Consumption trends have shifted medicinal plants from local consumptions to economic contexts. ...
• Factors influencing brewery contract farming participation among sorghum farmers in selected districts in Dodoma, Tanzania a logit analysis aproach 

  Kimbi, Thedy; Mishili, Fulgence; Sieber, Stefan; Akpo, Essegbemon; Magomba, Christopher (Sokoine University of Agriculture., 2022)

  As contract farming is a useful arrangement that integrates smallholder farmers in the agricultural value chain in developing countries, it is essential for agricultural policies focusing on rural development to implement ...
• Working or not working in commercial farms and uptake of agricultural technologies in Rural Tanzania 

  Maro, Festo; Mutabazi, Khamaldin (Sokoine University of Agriculture., 2022-07-31)

  Abstract Commercial farms investment plays important role in agricultural technology spillovers but less is known on specific channels influencing neighboring farmer’s uptake of agricultural technologies. This study ...
• Rapid appraisal of policies &institutional frameworks for agricultural water management 

  Unknown author ((IMAWESA), 2007-11)

  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of the country study was to investigate how policies or institutional frameworks affected or would have affected agricultural water management (AWM) programmes or projects between 1985 ...
• Relaxing credit and information constraints: five-Year experimental evidence from Tanzanian agriculture. 

  Tamim, Abdulrazzak; Harou, Aurélie P; Lobell, David; Madajewicz, Malgosia; Burke, Marshall; Michelson, Hope; Palm, Cheryl A; Xue, Jiani; Magomba, Christopher (elservier, 2022-10-03)

  Low fertilizer application by small farmers continues to inhibit crop yields around the world. The reasons behind low application rates continue to be de- bated. We study the longer-term outcomes of a field experiment ...
• Evaluating the role of market based policy instruments in managing trade-offs between ecosystem services supply and human welfare: case of Uluguru water catchment, Tanzania 

  Sanga, Gody Jonathan (Sokoine University of Agriculture., 2017-05)

  This study uses the Uluguru water catchments in Tanzania to assess whether market- based policy instruments can secure internalisation of externalities in such complex socio-economic-ecological systems which are not only ...
• Can information improve investment? effects of site-specific soil recommendations on fertilizer demand 

  Harou, Aurélie P.; Madajewicz, Malgosia; Magomba, Chris; Michelson, Hope; Tschirhart, Kevin; Amuri, Nyambi; Palm, Cheryl (Sokoine University of Agriculture., 2018-07)

  This paper studies the effects of providing smallholder farmers with plot-specific soil quality information and fertilizer recommendations on investment and technology adoption. Low use of mineral fertilizers by farmers ...
• Agricultural commercialisation and the political economy of value Chains: Tanzania rice case study 

  Mdoe, Ntengua S.Y.; Mlay, Glead I. (Agricultural Policy Research in Africa, 2021)

  Rice is increasingly becoming a commercial crop, providing food, employment, and income for people in both rural and urban areas. This paper presents the political economy of rice commercialisation in Tanzania. It is ...
• Commercialisation pathways and climate change: the case of smallholder farmers in semi-arid Tanzania 

  Mutabazi, Khamaldin; Boniface, Gideon (Agricultural Policy Research in Africa, 2021-12)

  The semi-arid drylands of central Tanzania have been characterised by low and erratic rainfall coupled with high evapotranspiration. Up until now, farmers of these local dryland farming systems have been able to ...
• Effect of choice of tillage technology on commercialisation and livelihood of smallholder farmers in Mngeta division, Kilombero district, Tanzania 

  Mdoe, Ntengua; Mlay, Gilead; Isinika, Aida; Boniface, Gideon; Magomba, Christopher (Agricultural Policy Research in Africa, 2020)

  This paper examines the effect of choice of tillage technology options on rice, commercialisation, yield, and livelihood of smallholder rice farmers in Mngeta Division, Kilombero District, Tanzania. There are four options ...
• Livestock, crop commercialisation and poverty reduction among rural households in the Singida region, Tanzania 

  Mdoe, Ntengua S.Y.; Mlay, Gilead I.; Boniface, Gideon; Isinika, Aida. C.; Magomba, Christopher (Agricultural Policy Research in Africa, 2021)

  Livestock is an important component of mixed crop-livestock farming systems in the Singida Region in Tanzania, directly or indirectly contributing to household income, food security and poverty reduction ...
• Rice commercialisation effects in Mngeta, Kilombero district, Tanzania: identifying the underlying factors 

  Isinika, Aida; Mlay, Gilead; Mdoe, Ntengua; Boniface, Gideon; Magomba, Christopher; Kilave, Devotha (Agricultural Policy Research in Africa, 2021-08)

  Rice production is the most dominant farming system in Kilombero valley in Morogoro region, Tanzania, accounting for more than 80 per cent of cultivated land within the valley. This paper examines ...
• Livestock, crop commercialization and poverty reduction in crop-livestock farming systems in Singida region, Tanzania 

  Mdoe, Ntengua; Mlay, Glead; Isinika, Aida; Boniface, Gideon; Magomba, Christopher (IISTE, 2022)

  Livestock is an important component of crop-livestock farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This paper examined the effect of livestock on crop commercialization and poverty reduction among smallholder farmers in ...
• Employment patterns in clusters of foreign agricultural investments farms in rural areas 

  Maro, Festo; Broegaard, Rikke; Lazaro, Evelyne; Mutabazi, Khamaldin; Ravnborg, Helle Munk (Scientific Research Publishing, 2022)

  Employment outcomes from foreign land-based agricultural investments (FAI) are contested despite existence of paucity in literature on why individuals seek such employment. This paper assesses individuals’ motives for ...
• Choice of tillage technologies and impact on paddy yield and food security in Kilombero valley, Tanzania 

  Mlay, Glead; Mdoe, Ntengua; Boniface, Gideon; Magomba, Christopher; Isinika, Aida (IISTE, 2022-04-30)

  This paper analyses choice of alternative tillage technology options and their impact on paddy yield and food security in Kilombero valley of Morogoro Region, Tanzania. The results show that the choice of any tillage ...
• Is rice and sunflower commercialisation in Tanzania inclusive for women and youth? 

  Mdoe, Ntengua; Isinika, Aida; Mlay, Gilead; Boniface, Gideon; Magomba, Christopher; Jeckoniah, John; Mosha, Devotha (Agricultural Policy Research in Africa, 2022-04)

  Rice is Tanzania’s third most important staple crop after maize and cassava, and produced by more than 1 million households who are mostly small- scale farmers. Meanwhile sunflower is the most important edible oil crop ...
• Does rice commercialisation in Mngeta, Kilombero, Tanzania impact livelihoods? 

  Isinika, Aida; Mdoe, Ntengua; Jeckonia, John; Magomba, Christopher; Mlay, Gilead; Kilave, Devotha (Agricultural Policy Research in Africa, 2020)

  Rice is Tanzania’s third most important staple crop, after maize and cassava. It is produced by more than 1 million agricultural households and involves many more actors and service providers along the value chain. ...
• A multi-phase assessment of the effects of covid-19 on food systems and rural livelihoods in Tanzania 

  Boniface, Gideon; Magomba, Christopher (Agricultural Policy Research in Africa, 2021)

  Since the outbreak of COVID-19 at the end of 2019, which was first reported in China in December 2019 (NBS, 2020), the pandemic has brought both social and economic impacts to global communities, although to varying ...
• Soil and water conservation practices and their potential for outscaling in semiarid areas of Tanzania 

  Sanga, Gody Jonathan (2015)

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