Organizations involved in Organic Agriculture inTanzania
TanCert
Contact person: Leonard Mtama, Manager Email of the contact person lm@tancert.org Permanent email: tancert@tancert.org Postal address: P. O. Box 70089 Dar es Salaam. Tanzania Phone: +255 222 12 44 41 Cell: +255 784 49 02 75 Fax: +255 222 12 44 41 Web: www.tancert.org Type of Organization: Private Company Scope of the Organization: National Organic Agriculture related main activities:
Provides services for inspection
Certification and quality assurance for organic products
Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM)
Contact person: Jordan Gama Email of the contact person: noelkwai@gmail.com Permanent email: toam@kilimohai.org Postal address: P.O.Box 70089, Dar es salaam- Tanzania Phone: +255 754 61 84 84 Year of Foundation: 2005 Mission:
To provide leadership and coordination of stakeholders, initiatives in developing and promoting the organic sector as a holistic development option to reduce hunger, poverty and diseases in Tanzania through lobbying and advocacy for supportive legal and policy frameworks, increased awareness and adoption of organic agriculture, development of organic standards, stimulation of positive market forces and building capacity for local and international marketing of organic products
Type of Organization: NGO Scope of the Organization: National Organic Agriculture related main activities:
General promotion of organic agriculture
Food security
Advocacy and lobbying against GMOs
International marketing and trade on organic agriculture
Local organic market development
Education, research and training on organic agriculture
