Swissaid together with its partner organization TABIO (Tanzanian Alliance for Biodiversity) organized a workshop to find options for creating space in Tanzania’s seed regulation, taking place 28 to 30 July in Dar es Salaam. Experts from EU, Ethiopia, Mali, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Zambia presented experiences from their countries on seed legislation that are more enabling for farmers seeds. During the workshop participants, including the Ministry of Agriculture, Tanzania Agricultural Reseach Institute, Tanzania Official Seed Certification Institute, African Union Commission, EALA Parliamentarian and numerous CSO elaborated options to be implemented in Tanzania. Some concrete opportunities and promising action have been identified for creating space in for farmers’ seeds in Tanzania, and a policy brief has been elaborated based on the insights from the workshop. Furthermore, there has been an opportunity to comment and suggest changes to a draft for a new Policy for farmer managed seed systems policy of the African Union. Read further in the workshop report.
Listen below to some of the participants speaking about the objectives of the workshop: