Viewpoints: Tanzania, food prices and promoting agriculture in Africa
/ 2008

Last month in Dar es Salaam, the African Development Bank (AfDB) Tanzania Country Office invited members of government, the local aid community, bi- and multilateral organisations, private agribusinesses, civil society, think tanks and journalists, to debate rising food prices and growth prospects in Tanzania. The event, co-organised by the OECD Development Centre with financial support from the Italian government, hinged around two recent reports: Business for Development 2008 (B4D) and the annual African Economic Outlook 2008 (AEO). We asked Sipho Moyo, AfDB Tanzania Resident Representative, to expand on some of the issues raised.