{"id":6711,"date":"2019-11-21T09:16:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T06:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6711"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","slug":"ngo-calls-for-national-agroforestry-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/21\/ngo-calls-for-national-agroforestry-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"NGO Calls for National Agroforestry Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <strong>By Mugini Jacob in Musoma<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VI Agroforestry Tanzania has appealed to the government to introduce a national agroforestry policy that would curb the effects of Climate Change and promote sustainable farming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was stressed by VI Agroforestry Tanzania Acting Manager Thaddeus Mbowe in Musoma, Mara Region at the 2019 Agroforestry Exhibition organised for Lake Zone farmers, adding: &#8220;Because of the benefits of agroforestry in curbing climate change, we have decided to start a campaign to advise the government on the importance of having the agroforestry policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides farmers, the annual exhibition brought together key stakeholders, including government officials, researchers and politicians to showcase the importance of agroforestry farming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further said that the campaign to have the agroforestry policy in Tanzania is part of their local initiative that would go regional before becoming a global concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Mbowe said VI Agroforestry Tanzania has made significant progress in transforming the lives of farmers in the country through their organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We started with these farmers as families and they are now farmers&#8217; organisations. We have changed so much not only by planting trees, but also by strengthening farmers&#8217; organisations,&#8221; added Mr Mbowe, who is also VI Agroforestry Tanzania Deputy Country Manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><ins><br> <\/ins><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mugini Jacob in Musoma VI Agroforestry Tanzania has appealed to the government to introduce a national agroforestry policy that would curb the effects of Climate Change and promote sustainable&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}