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• Tanzania Cotton Programme: Summary (2011)

  We have been working with local institutions to develop Tanzania’s cotton and textiles sector since 2007. This two page summary focuses on the programme’s promotion of a contract farming model. It outlines progress to date and the challenges ahead.

• Tanzania Cotton Video: Contract Farming Benefits (2011)

  We are promoting a contract farming model in the Tanzanian cotton sector to ensure farmers can access the inputs they need to raise yields. This video was broadcast on a variety of channels across Tanzania in both English and Swahili to inform farmers of the benefits of the model and encourage their participation.

• Tanzania Cotton Video: Boosting Yields Through Conservation Agriculture (2012)

  We are promoting conservation agriculture farming practices in the Tanzanian cotton sector to help sustainably raise yields. This video explains the advantages of conservation agriculture for Tanzanian cotton production and outlines how we are disseminating it to farmers across the country.

• AgFiMS: Tanzania Study Headline Findings (2012)

  This brochure presents the headline findings from the Tanzanian pilot of the Agricultural Finance Markets Scoping research tool, developed by Gatsby and partners in order to map the supply and demand of agricultural finance at a national level.

• African Agricultural Capital: Summary (2011)

  This two page summary profiles African Agricultural Capital – an innovative private equity fund capitalised by Gatsby and partners in 2004 to invest in agricultural small and medium-sized enterprises in East Africa.

• African Agricultural Capital: Impact Study (2011)

  This in-depth case study profiles five investees of the Gatsby-supported private equity fund African Agricultural Capital. It seeks to evaluate the direct impact of the investments on the investee companies and their employees, suppliers and customers.

• Raising Yields, Creating Partnerships: Gatsby’s On-Farm Work in Africa (2003)

  Gatsby previously funded agricultural research and technology dissemination across sub-Saharan Africa before our focus evolved. This 96 page paper reviews some of the projects Gatsby supported between 1985 and 2003, detailing their impact and the lessons learned.

• Push-Pull: A Model for Africa’s Green Revolution (2011)

  We funded the research partnership which developed “push-pull” – a natural science-based technology which protects maize from pests and weeds. This 36 page paper describes the model, details uptake and impact, and outlines the challenges ahead.

• Mastering Mosaic: The Fight for Cassava Production in Uganda (1997)

  At the end of the 1980s the outbreak of a new variant of Cassava Mosaic Disease saw 3,000 Ugandans starve to death. This 28 page paper from 1997 describes the Gatsby-supported response of the National Agricultural Research Organisation to the epidemic.

• Building from the Base: The Work of the African Gatsby Trusts (2000)

  In the early 1990s we founded four independent trusts in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Cameroon. This 30 page paper from 2000 outlines the thinking behind setting-up the trusts, profiles their early work and sets out lessons learned.