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FactsheetStrengthening Plant Health Services in Tanzania for Enhanced Food Safety - TCP/URT/3806 2024
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No results found.Agriculture is the most dominant sector in the United Republic of Tanzania's economy and the largest employer in the country. It provides livelihoods, income and employment to 67 percent of the population, accounting for 30.1 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and about 50 percent of export earnings. The sector is threatened by pests and diseases that pose major challenges to agricultural production and trade owing to their detrimental effects on crop yield, produce quality and quarantine status. This deprives the country of export revenues due to non-compliance to sanitary and phytosanitary standards (SPS). Smallholder farmers in the United Republic of Tanzania have a very low capacity to prevent, manage and eradicate pests. They also have very little information about international phytosanitary standards and export requirements. This is mainly due to their low education level, geographical isolation and a lack of access to modern communication devices and essential inputs to improve production. -
FactsheetStrengthening Food Safety and Security in the United Republic of Tanzania - TCP/URT/3605 2019
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No results found.In August 2017, 61 cases of aflatoxin and 17 deaths were reported from five districts in the Dodoma and Manyara regions. The Government took immediate action to investigate the outbreak. Out of the 115 maize samples tested, 52 showed high levels of aflatoxin poisoning that exceeded the World Health Organization’s (WHO) threshold of 5 micrograms per kilogram of cereal and the Tanzania Bureau of Standards’ maximum acceptable limits for maize and groundnut. Maize is the United Republic of Tanzania’s staple food and is also prone to the development of mycotoxins, produced by fungi (e.g. Aspergillus). Aflatoxins can cause acute or chronic health effects, depending on the level and duration of exposure. The health effects that occur shortly after ingesting high levels of aflatoxin are severe illness and death. To prevent further contamination, awareness raising among maize consumers and producers was necessary to restore the food security of maize throughout the country. Additionally, postharvest technologies and good agricultural practices were disseminated to further improve food and nutrition security. -
Policy briefBiosecurity in pig farms and the provision of animal health services in the United Republic of Tanzania: Should public-private partnerships be the way forward?
A snapshot from public and private livestock field officers in Sumbawanga
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No results found.The Progressive Management Pathway for Terrestrial Animal Biosecurity (PMP-TAB) is a collaborative, stepwise approach to assessing and managing biological risks, to strengthen biosecurity in terrestrial animal production and associated value chains. Strengthening biosecurity will minimise health threats, including disease and antimicrobial resistance, improve production and enhance livelihoods through socioeconomic benefits. In Tanzania, the focus is on pig value chain actors, initially producers, to adopt minimum biosecurity practices at the farm level. This brief presents a snapshot of biosecurity in the Tanzania pig sector and a quick assessment of the capacity of public and private animal health services suppliers to interact and cooperate with livestock farmers and facilitate their adoption of good biosecurity practices and compliance with animal health legislation to ensure prevention and timely detection of animal disease and improve health outcomes. Existing laws, regulations and guidelines on biosecurity can make a difference only to the extent they reach and are applied by livestock farmers.
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