Nafasi za Kazi Wizara ya Maliasili - Nafasi za Kazi za Mkataba Wizara ya Maliasili na Utalii December 2025
Nafasi za Kazi Wizara ya Maliasili
The Project ‘Food Systems Land Use and Restoration in Tanzania’s Forest Landscapes’ is a child project under the GEF Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration (FOLUR) Impact Program. The 5-year project is implemented through the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, as the lead Executing Agency, with the support of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as GEF Implementing Agency.
The key environmental problem to be addressed by the project is the degradation of Tanzania’s rich forest lands and wetlands and the related loss in forest health and biodiversity, under the pressure of agricultural development, with a focus on rice production, which has detrimental effects on the delivery of ecosystem services and related livelihood and economic opportunities. In Tanzania, rice production has more than tripled between 2004 and 2015, making Tanzania the 2nd largest rice producer in South- Eastern Africa. The rice sector is currently a key point of attention of various
Government and donor supported programs geared towards both intensification and extensification, with a growing interest in export to supply adjacent Africa states. A key challenge is that production is small scale, with current yields are among the lowest in the world (between 1.5 and 2 t/ha), inefficient supply chains, post-harvest handling and poor transport networks, posing additional challenges.
The project focuses primarily on two landscapes in Tanzania, both critical for rice cultivation: the Kilombero Valley on mainland Tanzania; and the North Unguja (Zanzibar) landscape. The project represents an integrated approach that combines aspects of sustainable food systems and deforestation free supply chains, with broader landscape level planning, management and restoration for the preservation of ecosystem services in these two landscapes, which translates into three main pillars of work:
1. The development of an Integrated Landscape Management approach for the target landscapes, through a multi-stakeholder process, in order to provide for a landscape management framework that gives space for rice production and other uses, while securing space for the preservation and restoration of critical ecological systems;
2. The development of sustainable and socially inclusive value/supply chains for the rice production sector, including the development of supporting governance/policy frameworks, financial and market mechanisms and incentives that will drive sustainable value chains; and
3. The development and implementation of concrete landscape restoration and management activities in the target landscapes, including the creation of enabling conditions for upscaling. The focus here will be on areas degraded by or providing key environmental services to the rice sector.
