Maziwa Zaidi Update
(Tanzania smallholder dairy value chain development program)
Maziwa Zaidi R4D Projects Review and Planning
Meeting
30 March – 1 April 2014, Giraffe Hotel, Dar es Salaam
Amos Omore

What is unique about what we
are piloting and what progress
have we made?

Dairy market hubs without collective bulking and
marketing
Illustration of a dairy market hub for provision of inputs and services on pay-
off arrangements where there no without collective bulking and marketing

Criteria for becoming a Dairy Market Hub
DMH Category Criteria for becoming a DMH
a): Collective bulking and
sale of milk by members
of a farmers group
Farmers group:
i) is registered at district level
ii) has at least 1 link with a milk trader/ buyer
and at least 1 link with an input & services
provider
iii) members are able to access inputs &
services with or without on check-off
system
b) Individual members of a
farmers group sell milk
directly to traders

How many of each hub category?
DMH category Morogoro Tanga Total
a Chilling plant 0 2 2
a+b Chilling plant and milk
traders
6 6 12
b Milk traders 8 8 16
Total 14 16 30
Aim: Develop these into vibrant, well organized and sustainable
DMHs delivering demand-led inputs and services

Some lessons in facilitating change
1. How to adapt the concept of dairy market hubs to the specific
needs of the heterogeneous farmer groups
2. Farmer groups have ‘blueprints’ for organizational development
that they own: includes what Maziwa Zaidi can address and what
the groups will pursue by themselves.
3. SSPs domesticated dairy market hubs interventions linking traders
and BDS providers to improve access to inputs & services (on
check-off arrangements) in some villages
4. Desired flexibility in capacity development
5. It will take longer time to initiate "CHECK OFF and B2B" in some
remote villages because of few inputs and services providers
6. Overlapping roles and functions between ‘farmer group’ and
‘innovation platform’ in one or more villages has made us re-think
what multi-stakeholder processes are required at each level

Some lessons in facilitating change (cont’d)
7. ‘Rumours’ about handouts by Maziwa Zaidi
8. More demand for training than we can afford given limit of 30
farmers per group
9. District Community Development Departments interacting with the
groups on various development activities
10. Providing training closer to where farmers come from encourages
more women to participate
11. DDF is valued for sharing information, but need to re-emphasize its
role as an informal yet structured space for addressing common
challenges, to network, jointly advocate for changes in policy, and
that it is a joint effort where active participation is required to
achieve its intended goals.

Resource Mobilization last 3 years: on-going and closed
Feeds
1. Enhancing dairy-based livelihoods in Tanzania and India through feed innovation and value chain
development approaches (MilkIT; IFAD) - closed
2. Fodder and feed as a key opportunity for driving sustainable intensification of crop livestock
systems in Tanzania (USAID)
3. Feed the Future Innovation Lab on Small-Scale Irrigation in Tanz, Eth and Gh (USAID) - new
Genetics
4. Dairy Genetics East Africa Phase II (DGEA2, BMGF) - closed
5. Evaluation of breed composition, productivity and fitness for smallholder dairy cattle in Tanzania
(TDG, AgriTT-DFID)
Animal health
6. What’s killing my cow? Re-assessing diseases in smallholder dairying in Tanzania (GIZ) - closed
Food safety/nutrition
7. Safe food, fair food (SFFF2, BMZ) - closed
8. Rapid assessment of potential benefits to human health and nutrition from research on livestock
and fish market chains (ACIAR) - closed
9. Leveraging Dairy Value Chain Development in Tanzania for Improved Nutrition and Health of
Women and Children (USAID Linkage) - new
10. Study on “Looking beyond income: impact of hubs on human nutrition in Tanz” (SPIA) - new
Markets/hubs
11. More milk by and for the poor: Adapting dairy market hubs for pro-poor smallholder value
chains in Tanzania (MoreMilkIT; Irish Aid)
12. East Africa Dairy Development Project (EADD) Phase II (BMGF)
Environment:
13. CLEANED (BMGF) - closed
Gender (and above)
13. Dairy goat and root crop production (CGP, IDRC) - closed

CGIAR is a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in research for a food secure future. The CGIAR
Research Program on Livestock and Fish aims to increase the productivity of small-scale livestock and fish systems
in sustainable ways, making meat, milk and fish more available and affordable across the developing world.
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish
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