Tanzania - National Agricultural and Livestock Research Project (NALRP)

The Tanzania National Agricultural and Livestock Research Project (NALRP) falls within the framework of Tanzania’s current Economic Recovery Programme, one of whose main features is to enhance the productivity and efficiency of the agricultural sector. The project components included the following: (i) Establish a new organizational structure for agricultural and livestock research system (NARS) within the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security; (ii) Prepare national agricultural and livestock research Master plan (NALRM), which would set priorities for research based on the national goals and objectives and overall impact on the national economy and farm productivity in the short and medium term; (iii) Provide immediate financial support to research in cotton, roots and tubers, farming systems, general crops and livestock research priority programmes that had been identified and prepared before project approval; (iv) Establish an agricultural research fund (ARF) to finance priority research programmes proposed in the Research Master plan. The main efforts of the project are directed at developing capacity and institutional restructuring of the Agricultural Research in Tanzania. It will be implemented within a period of 8 years.