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Tanzania: Experts Discuss Investments in Agriculture
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The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)
13 May 2008
Posted to the web 13 May 2008
Experts from six African countries are discussing ways of attracting investments in agriculture.
Their three-day meeting started in Dar es Salaam yesterday and is aimed at helping the countries to create conducive environments for investments in the sector.
The event has attracted representatives from agri-business and research institutions, non-governmental organisations and government agencies from Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Mozambique, Ghana and Tanzania.
The World Bank Institute and Denmark have organised the meeting.
The World Bank's Henry Gordon said in Dar es Salaam yesterday that the meeting would enable participants to share findings of case studies of agricultural innovations conducted in the six countries.
The studies were complemented by documentation of a wider range of successful innovations in the countries that pertained to agricultural productivity, processing, rural energy, physical environment and water supply.
Mr Gordon said with rising global food prices, the experts would also be required to develop national action plans for agricultural innovations.
"With rising food prices, it becomes even more important to think in the short, medium and long term on how to increase agricultural productivity in Africa," he said.
According to Adewele Adekunde from the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, every African nation is required to examine its food situation before designing short-, medium- and long-term strategies.
"The short-term measure should be how to make sure that each country is hunger-free. Having done that, the country is required to go into the medium-term strategy of making sure that farmers get money through farming," said Adekunde.
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The long-term measure should be to sustain achievements registered through implementation of the medium-term measure.
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