Forest education and extension services. Forestry education and extension services are among key elements in ensuring that forest and farm producers share and exchange knowledge and skills, learn and adopt new relevant skills. MVIWATA’s role...

Smallholder farmers and members of MVIWATA at Mkuranga District on May 2021 were capacitated on land rights and legal aid service. About 50 participants’ representatives of farmers’ groups and networks from Kizapala, Tungi, Vianzi, Kibungachana,...

The delegation of IFAD-Tanzania, earlier today paid a courtesy visit to MVIWATA Headquarters in its attempt to develop new COSOP (Country Strategic Opportunities Programme) which is a framework for making strategic choices about IFAD operations...

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS INTENSIVE RESIDENTIAL TRAINING: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE Morogoro, 1/10 September 2021 Voices, needs, and concerns among African producers are hardly a priority in national politics, but whole food systems...

MVIWATA has conducted a three (3) days training on the establishment and management of microfinance services (VICOBA and SACCOS) for farmers and members of MVIWATA residing in Mkoka, Hongoro and Songambele wards in Kongwa District,...

Many times enormous amounts of resources are invested to generate solutions to crises facing smallholder farmers that are never adopted. A timely intervention against challenges early identified by rural family farmers themselves, allows farmers to...

Collective learning and solution finding being at the core of its mechanism in Farmer Field Schools (FFS), MVIWATA has for a while been organizing the FFS through different approaches to facilitate learning among smallholder farmers....

MVIWATA facilitated a leadership training to leaders of grassroots networks in Ikungi, Manyoni, Itigi, Mkalama, Iramba and Singida DC in Singida Region. The training aimed to capacitate leaders of grassroots groups and networks with mobilization...

In facilitating access to farmers’ produce markets, MVIWATA delegation held a consultative meeting with Wanging’ombe District Council officers to discuss marketing challenges for farmers, especially the challenges of the Igagala market constructed by MVIWATA. The...

In commemoration of World Environment Day on 5th June 2021, MVIWATA through the established MVIWATA Club of students at Kigurunyembe Secondary School in Morogoro municipality held a reflection forum to discuss the progress of the...

MVIWATA have participated in the Parliamentary Session of the United Republic of Tanzania where the Ministry of Agriculture through the Minister, Professor, Adolf Mkenda presented the Revenue and Expenditure Plan for the year 2021/2022. In...

Smallholder farmers in Tanzania face various challenges that impede their growth and ability to effectively contribute to food sovereignty and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) relative to those engaged in other sectors. Some of the constraints...