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Tanzania Food and Farming

These images for Vital Signs feature small-holder farmers in southern Tanzania near the village of Tamba Lang’ombe and in the agricultural area surrounding Udzungwa National Park.

Conservation International (2011)

Avian sells dried beans and corn in a market near Iringa, Tanzania. Feeding the growing world population will require a 70 to 100 percent increase in food production through agricultural intensification.
Avian sells dried beans and corn in a market near Iringa, Tanzania.
A butcher in market near Iringa, Tanzania.
With the help of Vital Signs, Rose Herman installed climate micro-sensors in her fields in Tamba Lang'ombe, Tanzania.
Thirsty corn in Tamba Lang'ombe, Tanzania.
Rose Herman remove corn kernals in Tamba Lang'ombe, Tanzania.
Rose Herman perpares lunch in her kitchen, Tamba Lang'ombe, Tanzania.
Tree nursery near Udzungwa Mountains National Park.
Small farm plot near Udzungwa Mountains National Park.
Juma Sanda harvests yams.
Fatuma Mgogoro weeds a small farm plot near Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania. Vital Signs is working to quantify the value of natural ecosystems to farmers like Fatuma.
Fatuma Mgogoro works a small farm plot near Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania.
Adija Saidi harvests vegetables for market in Mwaya, Tanzania, just outside of Udzungwa Mountains National Park. Vital Signs tracks agricultural production, including which seeds go into the land, what fertilizer is used and what crop yields they deliver.
Adija Saidi harvests vegetables for market in a small plot near Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania.
Adija Saidi harvests vegetables for market.
Adija Saidi harvests vegetables for market.
Soliman Ulaya picks eggplant.
Farmer Fatuma Mgogoro holds eggplant ready for market near Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania.
Abdalah Mnyukwa and Agnes Mlango cook breakfast in their fields.
Rice processing.
Rice processing.
Men process rice, an important cash crop, outside of Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania. The data Vital Signs collects will help determine where agriculture can be intensified to maximize yields while sustaining nearby ecosystems.
Sunflower.
Community water tap in the village of Mwaya, Tanzania.
Hashim Lihowelo grows rice outside of Udzungwa Mountains National Park in Tanzania.
Hashim Lihowelo grows rice outside of Udzungwa Mountains National Park in Tanzania.
Fallow sugarcane fields with Udzungwa Mountains in the distance.
Irrigated sugarcane fields with the Udzungwa Mountains in the distance.
Diko Diko and his backyard fish trap.
Diko Diko and his backyard fish trap.
Diko Diko traps fish in a small stream behind his house near Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania.
A family gathers outside their home in Mwaya, Tanzania after meeting with Vital Signs field technicians. Vital Signs collects and integrates data on agriculture, ecosystems and human well-being across several African nations.
Aquinata Kinyamagoha carries fuelwood back to her home for cooking. Wood collection has become increasingly restricted outside of Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania, with few good alternatives.
Two men work in the smoke of an illegal charcoal production site near Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania.
Illegal charcoal production.
Bush meat is sold along the highway in southern Tanzania. As the world’s population grows to around 9 billion by 2050, the demand for food, feed and fiber is predicted to nearly double.
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