This document outlines an integrated village development approach in Tanzania based on agriculture, including upstream and downstream activities from irrigation to food processing. It discusses problems addressed like lack of water access, firewood needs, and lack of financing, and solutions implemented such as boreholes, tree planting, and microfinance. Further needs are identified like expanding irrigation, cold storage, and stove production training. Funding is requested to scale up these solutions to benefit more families through increased incomes and employment. Partnerships and climate funding advice are also sought.

1. Zeze, an integrated village
level approach to CBA

2. Agriculture
Upstream Downstream
Irrigation
Greenhouses
Re-forestation
Crop diversification
Crop processing
Foodstuff manufacturing
Better storage
New markets
The process of integrated village development based on agriculture
has been started successfully, but needs scaling up

3. Problems and Solutions already in place
Lack of local knowledge
about Climate Change
We organised a village conference with youth
from all over the country, plus 2 youth camps
and multiple training sessions
Shifting farming
encroaches into the
forest
We set up a 78 bee hives – villagers share in the
income from honey so want to protect the trees
Need for firewood
destroys trees
Have planted 11,600 trees involving local
churches and schools.
Started producing fuel efficient stoves

4. Problems and Solutions in place
Poor access to water
means villagers cannot
grow crops outside rainy
season.
We have drilled over 40 boreholes by hand,
giving water access to over 24,000 people and
dug 5 ponds to irrigate 10 acres for 80
particularly needy families.
Impossible for local
people to get finance to
start small businesses
We set up a microfinance revolving fund and
business training scheme, so far over
benefitting over 1000 local women.
Poor roads lead to
problems getting goods
to market
We are setting up a food processing plant so
that maize and cassava can be processed locally,
keeping more of the profit in our village.

5. Further Problems and Solutions Still Needed
98% of local farmers lack
access to water year round,
restricting income & keeping
them in extreme poverty
Expand irrigation system to a further 50
acres in year 1
Increasing horticulture means
cold storage necessary to
avoid crop loss.
Set up solar cold storage for 10 tons of
tomatoes
Youth unemployment high,
particularly for people with
disabilities
Expand fuel efficient stove production and
recruit and train people with disabilities
Expanding population
increases need for firewood
Expand tree planting programme by
200,000 trees in year 1

6. How this will help:
Expanded irrigation will mean 400 more families will be able to
double harvests to 4 a year
Cold Storage will lead to a reduction from the current 20% of crop
lost (rising to 30% in the rainy season) and bring in an income of 2%
on sales.
Expanded Stove project will bring first time employment to 30 people
with disabilities.
Expanded Tree Planting will bring direct first time employment to 4
women and 2 men.
Selling seedlings and firewood and timber from debranching and
lumbering will bring in 10% of expenditure each year.

7. We are asking for:
• $98,000 to irrigate 50 acres (20 hectares)
• $50,000 for solar cold storage (partially built)
• $8,600 to set up fuel efficient stove production by people with disabilities
• $7,700 to plant 200,000 trees in 6 surrounding villages and train local climate stewards to
maintain them
All the above would go into a revolving fund. Profits from Increased income and sales
would be paid back into the fund to be used to fund future projects.
This is how the microfinance and farmer training funds have successfully operated and
grown over the last 5 years.
We’d also like
• Advice on how we can access climate funding
• Long term partnerships

8. Janet Chapman j.chapman@tanzdevtrust.org
Benedicto Hosea benosea86@gmail.com
Thank you!