An attempt to achieve food security on a PRESENT NATIONAL SCALE - Southern agricultural growth corridor (SAGCOT)

Question 1

What is a present national scale attempt to achieve food security in Tanzania?

Answer 1

The Southern Agricultural growth corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT), is an initiative founded in 2010, whose objective is to foster successful agro-industrialisation to benefit the region’s small-scale farmers.

Question 2

Successes and limitations of SAGCOT:

Answer 2

Successes

• should lift 2m peasant farmers out of extreme poverty by 2030.

Limitations

• Nomadic tribes have lost land due to this - displacement etc.