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SECURING LAND TENURE: Proposed reforms are meant to protect tenants

02 September 2021

The State Minister for Lands Sam Mayanja has responded to critics who accuse him of spearheading a plot by government to abolish the Mailo land tenure system and replace it with a freehold land tenure system. Mayanja has explained that the new proposals are instead aimed at strengthening ownership of land by the tenants on Mailo land so that they can acquire freehold land titles in perpetuity.

FAO, govt to address post harvest fish loss

30 August 2021

FISHERMEN in Lake Tanganyika lose between 50 and 70 percent of fish catch due to post-harvest fish losses, fisheries experts have said.

Director General of Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute (TAFIRI) Dr. Ismael Kimirei said many
fishermen get huge loss because they don’t have proper handling, processing and storage facilities right from the net to the market.

He said during sunny, the losses range beyween 40 to 50 percent but during cloudy and rainy, the losses go up to 70 percent.

UN food agencies warn of rising levels of acute hunger with potential risk of famine in four hotspots

29 August 2021

JOINT FAO-WFP NEWS RELEASE


6 November 2020, ROME - The world has been put on a heightened famine alert with a new report by two United Nations agencies that contains a stark warning; four countries contain areas that could soon slip into famine if conditions there undergo "any further deterioration over the coming months". These are Burkina Faso in West Africa's Sahel region, northeastern Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen.


La polémica en Argentina por la construcción de un nuevo puerto británico en las islas Malvinas/Falklands

26 August 2021

Las disputas diplomáticas entre Reino Unido y Argentina por las islas Malvinas/Falklands son habituales, y se acrecentaron desde que ambos países se enfrentaron hace casi cuatro décadas por la soberanía de ese archipiélago en el Atlántico Sur.

Pero la más reciente controversia involucra un nuevo "frente de batalla": la Antártida.

Argentina y Reino Unido son dos de las siete naciones que reivindican partes del continente blanco, pero son los únicos dos que reclaman exactamente la misma porción de territorio.

Announcing the LAND-at-scale project in Rwanda

26 August 2021

The Rwanda Land Management & Use Authority (RMLUA), the Netherlands embassy in Kigali (EKN) and the Netherlands Enterprise and Development Agency (RVO) are delighted to announce a LAND-at-scale project in Rwanda. Together with Kadaster International and the International Development Law Organization (IDLO), the RMLUA, EKN and RVO will be collaborating on an ambitious project over the coming four years.

NEW PLAN TO RAISE SUGAR PRODUCTION IS LAUDABLE

25 August 2021

Tanzania’s plan to draft in small-scale entrepreneurs, and produce at least 700,000 tonnes of sugar annually by 2025 is ambitious, to say the least.
However, this does not in any way mean that the plan is impossible to execute or ill-advised.
According to Industry and Trade minister Kitila Mkumbo, the government intends to engage small-scale processors who will complement large-scale manufacturers in order to attain this noble goal.

The DIONE Toolbox - Innovative technologies for agricultural monitoring

23 August 2021

Being developed within an EU-funded project, DIONE Toolbox is a solution that allows European Paying Agencies to comply with the Modernised CAP regulations while conducting an environmental performance evaluation of greening at a national or regional level, depending on the agency's jurisdiction. Beside Paying Agencies as a key beneficiaries, the DIONE Toolbox is designed to fulfil the requirements of smart agricultural monitoring provided by Certification & Control Bodies, as well.


Avocados’ potential to cut poverty

22 August 2021

Dar es Salaam. Avocado is a fruit crop that thrives in many parts of Tanzania, with the possibility of using it to free Tanzanians from abject poverty and improve families’ levels of nutrition.

Mbeya, Njombe, Songwe, Iringa, Tanga, Arusha, Kilimanjaro, Kigoma, Kagera, Katavi and Morogoro are popular regions for avocado production in the land.

A report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says that 19,449 tonnes of avocados were produced in 2016/17.