In June 2025, a new EAC Seed and Plant Varieties Bill has been tabled in East African Legislative Assembly (EALA). An earlier draft Bill from 2018 had stalled after facing heavy opposition from civil society.
Category Archives: Tanzania
Workshop: Creating Space for Farmers’ Seeds in Seed Regulations
SWISSAID and its partner TABIO organized a workshop in Dar es Salaam from 28–30 July to explore ways to create space for farmers’ seeds within Tanzania’s seed regulations.
Success story: Poultry production of the Shangushangu Group (Tanzania)
Read about the Shangushangu Group and their success in poultry production, including success in terms of management, income generation and mindset transformation of fellow villagers on agroecological production approaches.
The Nanenane and Seed & Food Fair 2024
Read more about the Nanenane and Seed & Food Fair 2024. This fair for Neglected and Underutilized Species was organized by SWISSAID Tanzania and local implementing partners.
3rd Pan-African Conference on Seed Governance
From August 21 to 23, AFSA organized the 3rd edition of the Pan-African Conference on Seed Governance, in Niamey, Niger, under the theme “Partnership between state and non-state actors for resilient seed systems in Africa.”
3rd National Ecological Organic Agriculture Conference (NEOAC)
Learn about the launch of Tanzania’s new National Strategy for Ecological Organic Agriculture, which was held in November 2023 in Dodoma.
Neglected and Underutilized Crops in Tanzania: the cookbook
Get inspired by a new cookbook featuring over 25 easy recipes based on Tanzanian NUS.
Beneficiaries stories: Tanzania
Discover the stories of three Tanzanian farmers that have (re)introducted some NUS into their fields.
New publication on the right to seeds in Africa
A new publication looks at the implementation of the right to seeds in Africa from the perspective of the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP).
Nane Nane Day: farmer’s exhibition week in Tanzania
A one-week fair, the Agricultural Exhibition, took place in various locations in Tanzania in August 2022. Farmers and other agricultural stakeholders used the opportunity to share their concrete activities and inputs on the agricultural sector with the general public.