Tanzania

SOW for the PESA Project

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Attached Document: 
application/pdf iconPESA Evaluation SOW.pdf
Source: 
USAID/Tanzania
Document Type: 
PDF
Date: 
January 25, 2006

The principal focus of this work will be an evaluation of the impact of USAID/Tanzania's Private Enterprise Support Activities (PESA) and effectiveness of DAI’s implementation.

AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Dealing with Licenses

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Attached Document: 
application/pdf iconAgCLIR - Dealing with Licenses.pdf
Source: 
USAID/BizCLIR
Document Type: 
PDF
Date: 
January 10, 2011

A number of industry-specific licenses can affect effective agribusiness operations; from seed and fertilizer certification, to farm equipment import and distribution, and health and food safety licenses. AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Dealing with Licenses highlights the specific issues that must be addressed in regards to the local legal, regulatory, and institutional environments for starting an agribusiness. 

 

 

AgCLIR Chapter: Dealing with Licenses

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The business of agriculture is typically heavily regulated. Moreover, it is often regulated in a way that requires business owners to actively search out what can seem like, under the best of circumstances, inconsistent and counterintuitive licensing requirements. Operating licenses enable governments to control where, how, and under what circumstances businesses may operate.

AgCLIR Chapter: Starting A Business

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Starting an agribusiness can be as simple as clearing an unclaimed plot of land, growing a crop of potatoes, and selling them in a nearby retail market or as complex as investing in a sophisticated manufacturing plant capable of using complex chemical extraction to turn tons of corn into products for consumption or industrial use. Most agricultural enterprises, even when oriented to production for the market, are managed by individual farmers or households who produce crops on land secured only with traditional tenure rights.

Tanzania Assessment

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Map of Tanzania

This information comes from the assessment conducted in country for the Tanzania report, which was published in February 2008. In just 15 years, Tanzania has emerged from the constraints of government control, centralization, and predominance of the state in all economic affairs, to a new emphasis on the free market and private sector-led growth.

Related Links: 
Tanzania MicroCLIR Report (Aug 2010)
Tanzania AgCLIR Report (May 2010)
Tanzania BizCLIR Report (Feb 2008)

Tanzania AgCLIR Report

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Attached Document: 
application/pdf iconTanzania_AgCLIR.pdf
Source: 
BizCLIR
Document Type: 
PDF
Date: 
May 1, 2010

This report addresses the conditions and opportunities for doing business in Tanzania’s agriculture sector. Through close examination of the relevant laws, institutions, and social dynamics, it aims to inform assistance decisions by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other donors in the area of agricultural development in Ghana, as well as to provide insight and guidance about the sector to government officials, private sector representatives, and others.

Tanzanian Specialty Coffee

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Attached Document: 
application/pdf iconCase Tanzanian Specialty Coffee.pdf
Source: 
BGI
Document Type: 
PDF
Date: 
November 12, 2007

This case tracks the relationship between Tanzanian coffee farmers in the KILICAFE cooperative, the international NGO TechnoServe (through funding from USAID, USDA and Switzerland's Secretariat for Economic Affairs), and the United States based specialty coffee company Peet's Coffee and Tea. This international buyer-supplier relationship represented the first direct export of Tanzanian coffee after tax and export policies regarding coffee were changed by the Ministries of Agriculture and Finance to create a more globally competitive coffee industry.

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