{"id":12699,"date":"2026-06-20T12:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/agriculture-stakeholders-in-tanzania-hail-cgiar-move-on-integration\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:05:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:05:26","slug":"agriculture-stakeholders-in-tanzania-hail-cgiar-move-on-integration","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/agriculture-stakeholders-in-tanzania-hail-cgiar-move-on-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture stakeholders in Tanzania hail CGIAR move on integration"},"content":{"rendered":"Stakeholders in the agricultural sector in Tanzania support the move by\u00a0CGIAR<\/a>\u00a0to integrate the activities of the different centers and research programs (CRPs) and to better align with the country\u2019s priorities in developing its agriculture sector.\n
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Participants at the CGIAR Site Integration Workshop, Tanzania.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nThe stakeholders agreed on this at a national consultation workshop on CGIAR \u201csite integration\u201d that was held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 4 December 2015 organized by IITA on behalf of CGIAR and CRPs working in the country. The aim was to discuss how CGIAR\/CRPs can work better together and align their activities and research agenda to the country\u2019s priorities. This was the second such workshop organized by IITA for CGIAR; the\u00a0first<\/a>\u00a0one was held in Abuja, Nigeria, in November 2015.\n\nThe participants were drawn from the different ministries, national agricultural research systems (NARS), universities, NGOs, donor community, private sector, and farmers\u2019 groups.\n\nThe Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives, Sophia Kaduma, said that integration across the different CRPs and with a wide range of national partners and stakeholders in the agricultural sector can enhance the outcomes of CGIAR\u2019s research agenda.\n\nShe noted the potential of the agriculture sector in Tanzania\u2019s efforts to reduce poverty and achieve its developmental goals of shifting to a middle-income economy by 2025, and reiterated the role of research and development to improve agriculture and combat climate change and her government\u2019s commitment to R&D.\n\nRepresentatives from the donor community including the\u00a0Fondation Bill & Melinda Gates<\/a>,\u00a0Irish Aid<\/a>,\u00a0USAID<\/a>, et le\u00a0Banque mondiale<\/a>\u00a0also support the move, which is expected to lead to more efficient use of donor funding and reduction of duplication of efforts.\n\n\u201cIntegration\u201d and \u201calignment\u201d were viewed as important in ensuring that development projects focused on the country\u2019s priorities and not the donors\/centers\u2019 whims.\n\nRepresentatives from the farming communities and the private sector were also at the forum and highlighted some of the challenges they faced. \u201cFarming has to be profitable. As farmers, we face many issues including poor extension services. The extension staff are few, without resources. We are therefore unable to access new technologies from research. Therefore the integration should look at how to support extension to reach farmers,\u201d said Omary Mwaimu from\u00a0AMSHA Institute<\/a>.\n\nParticipants at the event identified areas where CGIAR\/CRP support was needed:\n