The document provides an update on the 'Maziwa Zaidi' program, aimed at developing the dairy value chain in Tanzania, highlighting challenges such as poor access to veterinary services and inadequate inputs affecting milk productivity. It outlines intervention areas, assessments conducted since 2012, and training initiatives, emphasizing strategic partnerships for improving dairy livelihoods. The long-term vision focuses on sustainable development and inclusivity within the dairy sector, supported by various projects and collaborations.

1. Update on “Maziwa Zaidi”
(Tanzania dairy value chain development program)
Amos Omore
ILRI-Tanzania
Tanzania dairy value chain strategy and implementation planning
workshop, Dar es Salaam, 25-26 June 2014

2. THE
EFFECTS
THE CAUSES Poor access to
veterinary
services
Poor quality
feeds / feeding
practices
Poor disease
control
programs
Low capacity to
extend technical
knowledge and
information
WHOLE VALUE CHAIN WITH DOWNSTREAM EMPHASIS
INPUTS & SERVICES PRODUCTION MARKETING CONSUMPTION
1. Low milk productivity
2. Poor access to production and market inputs and services
Poor nutrition Food insecurity / hidden hungerPovertyTHE IMPACT
Inconsistent
access to water/
seasonality
1. Cattle keepers’ have low capacity to innovate, manage risk, reduce vulnerability,
increase incomes, and ensure food security.
2. The sector is starved of appropriate credit facilities that can finance acquisition of basic
inputs and services.
3. Low investment in productivity improving innovations has perpetuated a low-input
low-output vicious cycle.
INTERVENTION
AREAS
small-scale nature of
the production systems
Low
genetic
potential
Problem statement
Lack of appropriate
organizational approaches
few and poorly linked
BDS providers
Low access inputs and
services
ASSOCIATED
WITH
More milk, income,
assets and better
health & Nutrition

3. Vision: a more inclusive and sustainable development of the
dairy value chain.
Long term goals

4. How to get there

5. Big Picture: Place of individual projects in
‘Maziwa Zaidi’
Aiming for research outputs made-to-order for immediate and future use

6. Where are we in the process?

7. Sites Selection
Site selection criteria (conducted in 2012)
High cattle density; High poverty level; High population density; Good access to market; High production
potential; Deficit areas with potential for increasing supply through feed interventions; Potential
partners/stakeholders.

8. Assessments
1. Rapid Value Chain Analysis (VCA) in 2012
2. Safe Food, Fair Food qualitative integrated assessment
3. Best bet interventions developed in 2012
4. Baseline (or benchmark?) survey conducted in 2012/13
5. Monitoring, learning and evaluation framework developed (2013)
and first survey (July 2014)
6. Ex-ante assessments to prioritize interventions initiated in 2013
(on going)
7. Feed Resource Assessment (FEAST) and Feed technology screening
(TechFit)
8. CapDev assessment (2013/14)

9. Complementary activities
1. Situational analysis & review of successes and failures
completed in 2014 (reports under review)
2. Partnership landscaping study in 2014 (report under review)
3. Workshops to define impact pathway completed in 2013
4. Several targeted studies consucted and ongoing (most with
students)
5. National forum for policy dialogue formed; meeting every 6
months since Feb 2013
6. Local area platforms also taking off

10. Capacity development
Training training
• Forty people (13 were female) from partner
organizations participated in various trainings in
2013 ranging from courses on systems dynamics
modeling, feeds and food safety;
• Five involved in comms training in 2014
• Nine students (5 were female) were engaged in 2013
for long term training at masters’ level and eight (4
female) in 2014
• One male student engaged at doctoral level
CapDev assessment conducted

11. Piloting of interventions
• Mobilization for testing of pilots conducted
in 2013
• Piloting of best-bets initiated in 2013/14
(MilkIT/MoreMilkiT)
• More best-bets in the pipeline (e.g.,
SFFF/TDB)
• Pilot interventions centered on building
hubs being tailored to site-specific plans
generated across thirty villages

12. Key partnerships and engagements
1. Strategic Research Partnerships
• SUA
• TALIRI
 Reinforced by CGIAR & ARIs
2. Development Partnerships
• Servicing the system: Heifer and
SNV
• From the system: TDB, FAIDA
MaLi
3. Mechanisms for strengthening
relationships
• DDF
• Local area platforms

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

14. Range of partners involved in projects
1. Sokoine University of Agriculture
2. Tanzania Livestock Research Institute
3. Tanzania Dairy Board
4. Faida Market Linkages
5. Heifer International
6. African Breeders Services Total Cattle Management Ltd
7. TechnoServe
8. Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (Germany)
9. Freie Universitaet Berlin
10. International Center for Tropical Agriculture
11. Royal Veterinary College (UK)
12. University of Alberta
13. Nelson Mandela African Institute for Science and Technology
14. Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC, UK)
15. China Agricultural University (CAU)
16. Emory University

15. Where the $$$ comes from
1. CGIAR Consortium
2. International Fund for Agricultural Development
3. The governments of Australia, Ireland and the United States,
United
4. International Development Research Centre
5. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

16. Links for further information…
• ilri.org/tanzania
• livestockfish.cgiar.org/focus/tanzania
• livestock-fish.wikispaces.com/VCD+Tanzania
• moremilkit.wikispaces.com/home
• milkit.wikispaces.com/
• www.safefoodfairfood.wordpress.com

17. 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
livestockfish.cgiar.org