Based on GSC-Tanzania’s seven years of promoting food security in northern Tanzania through bio-intensive agriculture, and successful pilots of the Newcastle Disease Control project of its NGO partners, GSC-Tanzania and its partners propose expanding the promotion of organic gardening and improved rural poultry systems into a regional program bringing food security to over 2,000 smallholder farmers on both a subsistence and commercial basis.
This program uses proven methods to empower rural producer groups by increasing the use of sustainable agriculture and kitchen gardens. In select communities this will also involve organizing village-level collection/buying/ selling points, ensuring quality produce through a participatory guarantee system of certification, encouraging rural poultry markets, conducting practical research and sharing knowledge on food preservation and appropriate irrigation skills with participant farm families. The program also will target families caring for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS.
Market linkages ensure that profitable and equitable relationships will benefit rural producers, small and medium entrepreneurs and others along the value-added chain.
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