To establish agroecological approaches across the entire value chain step by step, groups with potentially conflicting needs must also be connected: for example, by bringing together farmers who grow fruits and vegetables with livestock breeders who are more concerned with their animals.
Biovision wants to promote understanding between various interest groups while also advancing agroecology in the region. Through training in organic farming and creating processing facilities and marketing opportunities, farmers’ and livestock breeders’ living conditions should be improved and the region’s natural resources used more efficiently. Our aim is for farmers and livestock breeders to live peacefully alongside one another, using agroecological practices and benefiting from each other through a circular economy.
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Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania SAT
This project is supported by SDC
Our partner organisation Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania (SAT) in Morogoro teaches agroecological methods for increasing crop yields and protecting natural resources to communities of farmers and livestock breeders through training courses. Concretely, it’s all about creating a circular economy in which farmers and livestock breeders buy, sell or barter their goods with each other.
This is how, together with SAT, we are creating diverse opportunities for processing and marketing organic agricultural products within a local market and stimulating economic circulation that should help resolve conflicts between families who farm and families who keep livestock.
Moving forward, we want to scientifically evaluate the steps already achieved and figure out how the project can be expanded together with the relevant interest groups. The aim is not only that agroecological measures will play a role for farmers and livestock breeders in Morogoro, but also that they will be introduced in other regions of the country.
