Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships (MSPs) for accelerating varietal turnover for sorghum, groundnut and common bean in Tanzania: The case of Mbamba MTE Company Ltd
Mbamba MTE Company Limited, established in 2019 in Dodoma, Tanzania, works with over 81,000 smallholder farmers across Dodoma, Manyara, and Singida regions, primarily in grain trading and seed multiplication. Despite its strong farmer network, the company faces persistent challenges in sourcing adeq...
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| author | Radegunda, Kessy Ochieng, Justus Mwakatwila, Atupokile Edith Kadege Papias Binagwa Mwenda, Emmanuel Joachim Madeni Reinfrid Maganga Chima Rickards Victor Lesedy Rubyogo, Jean Claude Eliud Kongola |
| author_browse | Chima Rickards Edith Kadege Eliud Kongola Joachim Madeni Mwakatwila, Atupokile Mwenda, Emmanuel Ochieng, Justus Papias Binagwa Radegunda, Kessy Reinfrid Maganga Rubyogo, Jean Claude Victor Lesedy |
| author_facet | Radegunda, Kessy Ochieng, Justus Mwakatwila, Atupokile Edith Kadege Papias Binagwa Mwenda, Emmanuel Joachim Madeni Reinfrid Maganga Chima Rickards Victor Lesedy Rubyogo, Jean Claude Eliud Kongola |
| author_sort | Radegunda, Kessy |
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| description | Mbamba MTE Company Limited, established in 2019 in Dodoma, Tanzania, works with over 81,000 smallholder farmers across Dodoma, Manyara, and Singida regions, primarily in grain trading and seed multiplication. Despite its strong farmer network, the company faces persistent challenges in sourcing adequate volumes of clean, high-quality grain—largely due to farmers’ reliance on poor-quality seed and use of rudimentary post-harvest technologies. These limitations result in mixed, broken, and poorly cleaned grains, while also placing a heavy labor burden on women and youth through manual threshing and shelling.
Across Tanzania, most farmers producing open-pollinated crops such as sorghum, groundnut, and common bean rely overwhelmingly (97%) on informal seed systems, accessing seed from neighbors, local markets, or recycled grain, with only minimal use of formal or semi-formal seed systems. This has contributed to continued cultivation of old, low-yielding, climate-vulnerable varieties. As a result, national productivity remains low, grain quality is inconsistent, and market competitiveness is weakened—with negative impacts on pricing, export potential, and nutrition.
These challenges are reinforced by systemic bottlenecks in the seed sector, including weak coordination among value chain actors, poor demand signaling between farmers and seed producers, limited last-mile distribution, inadequate extension services, inconsistent supply, and lack of finance tailored to seed and grain actors. Improved varieties developed by researchers often fail to reach farmers due to poor promotion and fragmented value chain linkages.
The ACCELERATE Project aims to address these bottlenecks by strengthening access to improved, climate-resilient, and market-responsive varieties across the seed and grain value chains. As major buyers and aggregators, grain traders like Mbamba MTE Ltd play a central role in connecting farmers to domestic and international markets. Their position enables them to serve as key drivers of demand for improved varieties and as natural conveners of multi-stakeholder platforms that support faster varietal turnover and adoption, ultimately enhancing productivity, grain quality, and competitiveness within Tanzania’s agricultural sector. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1793262025-12-31T02:08:03Z Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships (MSPs) for accelerating varietal turnover for sorghum, groundnut and common bean in Tanzania: The case of Mbamba MTE Company Ltd Radegunda, Kessy Ochieng, Justus Mwakatwila, Atupokile Edith Kadege Papias Binagwa Mwenda, Emmanuel Joachim Madeni Reinfrid Maganga Chima Rickards Victor Lesedy Rubyogo, Jean Claude Eliud Kongola evaluation adaptation beans climate change sorghum groundnuts open pollination Mbamba MTE Company Limited, established in 2019 in Dodoma, Tanzania, works with over 81,000 smallholder farmers across Dodoma, Manyara, and Singida regions, primarily in grain trading and seed multiplication. Despite its strong farmer network, the company faces persistent challenges in sourcing adequate volumes of clean, high-quality grain—largely due to farmers’ reliance on poor-quality seed and use of rudimentary post-harvest technologies. These limitations result in mixed, broken, and poorly cleaned grains, while also placing a heavy labor burden on women and youth through manual threshing and shelling. Across Tanzania, most farmers producing open-pollinated crops such as sorghum, groundnut, and common bean rely overwhelmingly (97%) on informal seed systems, accessing seed from neighbors, local markets, or recycled grain, with only minimal use of formal or semi-formal seed systems. This has contributed to continued cultivation of old, low-yielding, climate-vulnerable varieties. As a result, national productivity remains low, grain quality is inconsistent, and market competitiveness is weakened—with negative impacts on pricing, export potential, and nutrition. These challenges are reinforced by systemic bottlenecks in the seed sector, including weak coordination among value chain actors, poor demand signaling between farmers and seed producers, limited last-mile distribution, inadequate extension services, inconsistent supply, and lack of finance tailored to seed and grain actors. Improved varieties developed by researchers often fail to reach farmers due to poor promotion and fragmented value chain linkages. The ACCELERATE Project aims to address these bottlenecks by strengthening access to improved, climate-resilient, and market-responsive varieties across the seed and grain value chains. As major buyers and aggregators, grain traders like Mbamba MTE Ltd play a central role in connecting farmers to domestic and international markets. Their position enables them to serve as key drivers of demand for improved varieties and as natural conveners of multi-stakeholder platforms that support faster varietal turnover and adoption, ultimately enhancing productivity, grain quality, and competitiveness within Tanzania’s agricultural sector. 2025-12-08 2025-12-30T08:57:36Z 2025-12-30T08:57:36Z Case Study https://hdl.handle.net/10568/179326 en Open Access application/pdf Radegunda, K.; Ochieng, J.; Mwakatwila, A.; Edith Kadege; Papias Binagwa; Mwenda, E.; Joachim Madeni; Reinfrid Maganga; Chima Rickards; Victor Lesedy; Rubyogo, J.C.; Eliud Kongola; (2025) Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships (MSPs) for accelerating varietal turnover for sorghum, groundnut and common bean in Tanzania: The case of Mbamba MTE Company Ltd. 14 p. |
| spellingShingle | evaluation adaptation beans climate change sorghum groundnuts open pollination Radegunda, Kessy Ochieng, Justus Mwakatwila, Atupokile Edith Kadege Papias Binagwa Mwenda, Emmanuel Joachim Madeni Reinfrid Maganga Chima Rickards Victor Lesedy Rubyogo, Jean Claude Eliud Kongola Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships (MSPs) for accelerating varietal turnover for sorghum, groundnut and common bean in Tanzania: The case of Mbamba MTE Company Ltd |
| title | Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships (MSPs) for accelerating varietal turnover for sorghum, groundnut and common bean in Tanzania: The case of Mbamba MTE Company Ltd |
| title_full | Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships (MSPs) for accelerating varietal turnover for sorghum, groundnut and common bean in Tanzania: The case of Mbamba MTE Company Ltd |
| title_fullStr | Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships (MSPs) for accelerating varietal turnover for sorghum, groundnut and common bean in Tanzania: The case of Mbamba MTE Company Ltd |
| title_full_unstemmed | Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships (MSPs) for accelerating varietal turnover for sorghum, groundnut and common bean in Tanzania: The case of Mbamba MTE Company Ltd |
| title_short | Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships (MSPs) for accelerating varietal turnover for sorghum, groundnut and common bean in Tanzania: The case of Mbamba MTE Company Ltd |
| title_sort | multi stakeholder partnerships msps for accelerating varietal turnover for sorghum groundnut and common bean in tanzania the case of mbamba mte company ltd |
| topic | evaluation adaptation beans climate change sorghum groundnuts open pollination |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/179326 |
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