Maziwa Zaidi (More Milk) in Tanzania
Reinforcing participation of women in dairy production and
marketing in Tanzania
Alice Njehu, Amos Omore and Alessandra Galie (ILRI)
Key messages
• Women in smallholder production are at the
center of improving food security and livelihoods.
• Women play big roles as managers and drivers of
dairy value chains at the production level.
• Gender empowerment efforts should be directed
to enhance shared benefits within households.
• Training and innovations should target people
according to often gender-specific livestock-
related tasks.
Opportunities to invest and scale
• Public investors can take advantage of women’s role in
dairy production with the realized increase in cattle
ownership and engagement in labour activities. This can
be achieved through dairy management training. An
outcome that will impact not only the household but also
the national economy.
• Private investors can expand the formal markets by
investing in bulking and cooling centers through which
dairy farmers can market their milk and also access inputs
and services for sustainable dairy business.
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Key results
• 10% of the studied households had women
owning at least a piece of land.
• Observable shift in livestock ownership from the
household male (baseline) to joint ownership in
monitoring survey (>57% of households).
• Household acquisition and disposal of livestock
determined by men (reported by >47% and >63%
households respectively) (Fig 1).
• Joint (men and women) decision making observed
on milk revenues from formal buyers (Fig 2).
• Milking, processing and selling of milk were mainly
by women while animal grazing was mainly
overseen by men and boys.
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March 2017
Objectives and approach
• A study assessed the role of women in dairy
production and marketing at household level.
• It was done through dairy household interviews
conducted in the MoreMilkiT project sites.
• Quantitative data was analyzed for descriptive
statistics.
Maziwa Zaidi thanks all donors and organizations which globally support the work of ILRI and its partners through
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Sale other livestock
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Figure1: Proportion contributing and making decision towards
purchase and sale of livestock
HH male HH female Joint HH Non HH member
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Neighbours(n=167)
Privatetraders(n=58)
Coop/grpchiller(n=5)
Coop/grpnochiller(n=3)
Privatechiller(n=3)
Other(n=8)
Neighbours(n=105)
Privatetraders(n=37)
Coop/grpchiller(n=26)
Coop/grpnochiller(n=2)
Other(n=1)
Neighbours(n=137)
Privatetraders(n=38)
Coop/grpchiller(n=25)
Coop/grpnochiller(n=4)
Privatelychiller(n=7)
Other(n=6)
Baseline MS1 MS2
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Figure 2: Proportion of HH member (by gender) making
decision on revenues from sale of milk by buyer type
HH male HH women HH joint other