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Climate Change and Multi-Dimensional Sustainability in African Agriculture pp 525–551Cite as

Private Sector Actions to Enable Climate-Smart Agriculture in Small-Scale Farming in Tanzania

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The private sector plays the most important role in financing agricultural investments, innovation and information dissemination where constraints on government investment render private sector actions more important. In East Africa, little is known about the participation of small businesses, independent traders, farmer organizations, large-scale wholesalers, marketing boards and cooperatives in climate-smart agriculture (CSA) and their potential role in its diffusion to small-scale farmers. In particular, the informal sector is out of view even though it forms the backbone of rural agrarian economies. This study examines relationships between private sector actors and farmers and examines supply chains of agricultural inputs, as well as agricultural product value chains. The potential for using the Quality Declared Seed (QDS) system to disseminate CSA bean and potato varieties is assessed, as is the commercial maize seed supply chain and its impact on agrobiodiversity. Finally, farmer trust of private sector actors, traders in particular, is evaluated. The data used is from a survey of 100 farmers and semi-structured interviews with traders, local input suppliers, transporters and marketing organizations.

Keywords

  • Private Sector
  • Integrate Pest Management
  • Informal Sector
  • Potato Variety
  • Formal Sector

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The agricultural innovations were invented decades ago. What we need is to distribute them in a form that is useful to people, Andrew Youn, Founder of One Acre Fund

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Source Challinor et al. (2014); IPCC (2014) WG II, ARS

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Source Pretty and Bharucha (2015)

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Led by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), CCAFS is a collaboration among 15 CGIAR research centers with leading scientists in agriculture, climate change, environmental and social sciences to identify and address the most important interactions, synergies and trade-offs between climate change and agriculture. CCAFS carries out research in East and West Africa, Latin America and Southeast and South Asia.

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    The potato varieties sold are not “climate-smart” varieties.

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  1. University of Florida, Gainesvile, FL, USA

    Sheryl Quail

  2. International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya

    John Recha

  3. Maseno University, Maseno, Kenya

    Leah Onyango

  4. African Development Bank, Nairobi, Kenya

    James Kinyangi

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    Rattan Lal

  2. AEDE/CFAES, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

    David Kraybill

  3. College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

    David O. Hansen

  4. Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

    Bal Ram Singh

  5. Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

    Theodosy Mosogoya

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Quail, S., Onyango, L., Recha, J., Kinyangi, J. (2016). Private Sector Actions to Enable Climate-Smart Agriculture in Small-Scale Farming in Tanzania. In: Lal, R., Kraybill, D., Hansen, D., Singh, B., Mosogoya, T., Eik, L. (eds) Climate Change and Multi-Dimensional Sustainability in African Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41238-2_28

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