Opportunities and challenges in Tanzania’s sugar industry: Lessons for SAGCOT and the New Alliance

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dc.contributor.authorSulle, Emmanuel
dc.contributor.authorSmalley, Rebecca
dc.contributor.authorMalale, Lameck
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-07T10:21:59Z
dc.date.available2019-03-07T10:21:59Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractSugarcane outgrower schemes are central to several policy and donor strategies for driving agricultural growth and reducing poverty, including the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor project in Tanzania (SAGCOT). But field research into the outgrower component of Kilombero Sugar Company, Tanzania’s largest and best regarded sugar producer, demonstrates a pressing need for change. Sugarcane production in Kilombero has had benefits for farming households as well as the local and national economy. However, unsustainable expansion and governance issues in the outgrower scheme have created new risks. There are pressures on food security as a result of a decline in land for food crops, and on incomes, particularly when outgrowers’ cane remains unharvested and farmers’ payments are delayed. These problems have been aggravated by the importation of foreign sugar into the country. For this industry to provide its maximum benefits to the economy and to the household, a policy, legal and institutional framework is needed that provides greater efficiency, accountability and transparency, as well as greater security for all participating stakeholders. There are lessons for the sugar industry, as well as donors and investors of ongoing and future agribusiness developments in Tanzania.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSulle, E., Smalley, R. & Malale, L., 2014. Opportunities and challenges in Tanzania’s Sugar Industry: Lessons for SAGCOT and the New Alliance. Cape Town: Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/4390
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInstitute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesFAC Policy Brief;76
dc.subjectSugarcaneen_US
dc.subjectOutgrower schemesen_US
dc.subjectSouthern Agricultural Growth Corridor project in Tanzania (SAGCOT)en_US
dc.subjectTanzaniaen_US
dc.titleOpportunities and challenges in Tanzania’s sugar industry: Lessons for SAGCOT and the New Allianceen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US

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