A partnership project aims to promote climate-smart small-scale agriculture in Tanzania to address food security, development, and climate change challenges. The project is implemented by five non-governmental organizations and funded by UK and Danish development agencies. It includes national advocacy and demonstration activities in six villages. The goal is to reduce poverty and greenhouse gas emissions by promoting resilient, low-emission agricultural practices for small-scale farmers.

1. CLIMATE SMART FUNDING
SMALL-SCALE
The project is financed by the UK Department for
Climate change,
AGRICULTURE
Climate-smart small-
International Development (DfID) and the Danish
International Development Agency (DANIDA) through agriculture and
AcT, the Accountability in Tanzania Programme.
scale agriculture includes
a range of agricultural
PROJECT PARTNERS
poverty alleviation:
practices that enable
women and men farmers
cultivating less than two
The project is a partnership between putting small-
hectares, simultaneously
to address food security,
ActionAid Tanzania,
www.actionaid.org/tanzania admin.tanzania@actionaid.org
scale farmers at
the heart of policy
development and climate
MJUMITA - Tanzanian Community Forestry Network
change adaptation /
mitigation challenges. www.mjumita.org mjumitaorg@mjumita.org
A central principle is to
MVIWATA - Tanzanian National Network of small-scale
farmers
and practice
improve soil fertility and soil moisture management as
www.mviwata.org mviwata@morogoro.net
well as to encourage farmers to use improved crop
varieties and good agricultural practices such as seed Tanzania Forest Conservation Group A partnership project
spacing, thinning and weeding. www.tfcg.org tfcg@tfcg.or.tz
Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement
PROJECT LOCATION www.kilimohai.org toam@kilimohai.org
Site-based activities are being implemented in six villages
in Kilosa and Chamwino Districts in Central Tanzania.
Map of the six project villages in Dodoma
and Morogoro Regions
FIND OUT MORE
For more information, please visit the project’s
webpage at: www.tfcg.org/ccap.html
Or contact:
Executive Director, TFCG.
PO Box 23410, Dar es Salaam
Tel.: +255 22 2669007 www.tfcg.org/ccap.html

2. CLIMATE CHANGE AND SMALL-SCALE THE PROJECT PROJECT OUTPUTS
AGRICULTURE IN TANZANIA
Overview Output 1: Two national networks of community groups
Small-scale farmers should be at the heart of The project is a partnership between five non- are advocating for climate smart agricultural land
Tanzania’s policies to address climate change governmental organisations. It includes a national level management at national and local levels.
mitigation and adaptation. advocacy component plus site based demonstration Activities: Building the capacity of members and staff
activities in three dryland villages in Chamwino District of the National Network of Small-Scale Farmers Groups
Agriculture is the key to Tanzania’s ability to adapt to and three upland villages in Kilosa District. Funding from
climate change and to adopt a low carbon development in Tanzania and of the Tanzania Community Forestry
AcT has been committed for the period October 2012 to Network to collaborate more effectively to advocate for
pathway. December 2014. climate smart small-scale agriculture.
Small-scale farmers will be (and are being) hit first and
hardest by climate change. Output 2: Information and analysis on the interface
Project Goal between small-scale agriculture and climate change
Land use change, particularly deforestation as a result of The goal of the climate change, agriculture and poverty
adaptation and mitigation that draws on research
shifting agriculture, is the largest source of greenhouse alleviation project (CCAP) is that poverty has been
from within and beyond Tanzania, is documented and
gas (GHG) emissions in Tanzania. reduced amongst small-scale farmers in Tanzania and
distributed.
greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture have been
Investment and agricultural policies and practices reduced through the widespread adoption of climate Activities: Research to document best practice in
are prioritising a shift to more mechanised, fossil fuel resilient, low emission agricultural practices. climate smart small-scale agriculture in Tanzania.
dependent, larger scale agriculture with the aim of
increasing productivity and commercialising smallholder Output 3: Small-scale farmers in two eco-agricultural
production. Whilst this approach may increase short-
Project approach and strategy zones provide a forum for learning and knowledge
The project will achieve its goal by advocating for exchange on best practice in terms of climate-smart
term yields, it risks makng small-scale farmers poorer
Tanzania to develop and implement policies and agriculture and support for C3S agriculture is integrated
and more vulnerable to climate change whilst increasing
strategies that prioritise support to small-scale farmers in District plans.
greenhouse gas emissions from increased dependence
to enable them to improve their livelihoods through the
on fossil fuel based inputs and machinery as well as Activities: Capacity building for farmers in six villages
adoption of climate smart agriculture and sustainable
increased deforestation from displaced small-scale to adopt and demonstrate climate smart small-scale
land and natural resources management.
farmers and from new commercial farms. agriculture. Working closely with local government, the
Tanzania is at risk of entrenching itself on a lose-lose Strategies that simultaneously increase adaptive project will provide practical examples of how improved
trajectory for climate change adaptation and mitigation capacity, reduce vulnerability and mitigate climate agricultural practices can address climate change
in its agriculture sector. change are likely to present fewer adoption barriers adaptation and mitigation.
than those with conflicting impacts. For example Output 4: Elected representatives express support
Current climate variability, i.e. extreme events such as
increasing soil organic matter content can both for small-scale climate smart agriculture and use their
droughts and floods, already lead to major economic
improve fertility and reduce the impact of drought, influence to direct support to small-scale farmers to
costs in Tanzania. Individual annual events have
economic costs in excess of 1% of GDP, and occur
improving adaptive capacity, making agriculture less implement climate change adaptation and mitigation
regularly, reducing long-term growth and affecting vulnerable to climate change, while also sequestering strategies.
millions of people and livelihoods. The Economics of carbon. IPCC 2007
Activities: under this
Climate Change in Tanzania, DfID 2011. output include media
coverage and engagement
with elected representatives
to promote the adoption
of policies that support
climate smart small-scale
agriculture.