Tanzania SSF Guidelines: lake appeal

A workshop in Tanzania focused on building capacity to improve small-scale fisheries in the context of food security and poverty eradication

Tanzania: networking for strength

A newly established network of women fish processors and traders promises to improve the prospects of women in Africa’s post-harvest secto

Tanzanian food producers, vendors and traders need direct relief measures in the face of the Covid-19

This policy brief is based on research conducted among food traders in nine key markets in three regions of Tanzania. The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the fragility of regional and international trade frameworks and the critical need for top-level diplomatic and political solutions. Women and youth constitute the majority of food system actors, including in the production and trade of food, and were disproportionately harmed by the disruption of the system. When neighboring countries instituted border restrictions, food producers found themselves unable to trade. Disruption to international trade systems undermined the health of the broader economy at community and national levels

Tanzanian food producers, vendors and traders need direct relief measures in the face of the Covid-19

Key messages • Tanzania’s responses to Covid-19 pandemic have shifted over time. An initial ambiguous position refrained from imposing hard lockdown restrictions measures and focused on local remedies. In the second year of the pandemic, and under new political leadership, this has given way to the promotion of a national vaccination programme. • Despite the absence of any significant hard lockdown measures in the country, Tanzania’s food producers, vendors and traders faced disrupted domestic food markets and were locked out of the regional market. As a result, these food-system actors incurred significant business losses during the two first waves of the pandemic. • Although food producers, vendors and traders play a central role in sustaining national food security their interests have not been properly considered in the development and implementation of official Covid-19 relief measures. • Women and youth constitute the majority of food system actors, including in the production and trade of food, and were thus disproportionately harmed by the disruption of the system. • The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the fragility of regional and international trade frameworks and the critical need for top-level diplomatic and political solutions to strengthen national and African food systems and the livelihoods of food system actors in Tanzania and the continent more broadly.IDR

A good practice guide for ethical and inclusive communications involving small-scale fisheries

Today, small-scale fisheries are experiencing substantial climate, economic, and political changes. The power of communications can greatly influence how fisherfolk and small-scale fisheries are central or marginal, enabled or disenabled among these changes. Messages and discourse can shape perspectives on, and images of, small-scale fisheries, leading actors (including those who have power) to hold certain ideas and views on how they should be governed, thereby influencing outcomes. This guide provides practical and simple guidance on how to communicate about small-scale f isheries in an inclusive, responsible and ethical way that respects and recognizes the 120 million women, men and youth employed and engaged in the sector