Vegetable, fruit, and staple crop production and input use: Baseline findings from the FRESH end-to-end evaluation

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dc.creatorBliznashka, Lilia
dc.creatorDione, Malick
dc.creatorZagré, Rock Romaric
dc.creatorBoniface, Simon
dc.creatorDinssa, Fekadu
dc.creatorMwambi, Mercy
dc.creatorMbwambo, Omary
dc.creatorMwombeki, Wiston
dc.creatorJeremiah, Kidola
dc.creatorMalindisa, Evangelista
dc.creatorKinabo, Joyce
dc.creatorCunningham, Kenda
dc.creatorOlney, Deanna K.
dc.creatorKumar, Neha
dc.date2025-07-17
dc.date2025-07-18T15:16:08Z
dc.date2025-07-18T15:16:08Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:32:23Z
dc.descriptionIn Tanzania, fruit and vegetable (F&V) production is the fastest growing agricultural subsector.1 Production is concentrated among smallholder farmers who face numerous barriers which hamper intensification. These include lack of quality inputs, insufficient financing, limited access to subsidies, limited extension services, and limited and unreliable access to markets. The CGIAR Research Initiative on Fruit and Vegetables for Sustainable Healthy Diets (FRESH), now under the CGIAR Science Program on Better Diets and Nutrition (BDN) Area of Work 3, is testing the effectiveness of its end-to-end approach in Northern Tanzania.2 This approach, described in more detail in Research Brief 1, combines demand, food environment, and supply interventions to increase desirability, affordability, accessibility, and availability of F&V. The supply interventions are designed to address known barriers faced by F&V farmers. For example, the provision of climate-resilient vegetable cultivars tackles the lack of quality inputs, whereas training on safe and sustainable vegetable production, including integrated pest management, tackles limited extension services. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and partners are conducting a longitudinal evaluation to assess the impact of the FRESH end-to-end approach in Tanzania on household vegetable production and F&V intake among women of reproductive age. The evaluation is being conducted among 2,611 households living in 33 villages in five districts in the Arusha and Kilimanjaro regions. In this research brief, we describe baseline findings on the production of vegetables, fruit, and staple crops and the inputs used in production among different types of farming households in the study area.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/175687
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/107255
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/138874
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/173282
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceBliznashka, Lilia; Dione, Malick; Zagré, Rock Romaric; Boniface, Simon; Dinssa, Fekadu; et al. 2025. Vegetable, fruit, and staple crop production and input use: Baseline findings from the FRESH end-to-end evaluation. Tanzania Evaluation Research Brief 3. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175687
dc.subjectcapacity building
dc.subjectvegetables
dc.subjectfruits
dc.subjectstaple foods
dc.subjectcrop production
dc.subjectfarming systems
dc.titleVegetable, fruit, and staple crop production and input use: Baseline findings from the FRESH end-to-end evaluation
dc.typeBrief

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