February 7, 2007

ACDI/VOCA’s Tanzania Project Highlighted on microLINKS ‘Notes from the Field’

ACDI/VOCA’s innovative project to develop economic opportunities for rural Tanzanians is featured on microLINKS as part of its “Notes from the Field” initiative. The feature, called "Note from Tanzania: A Sea of Entrepreneurial Opportunities,” showcases the successes of ACDI/VOCA’s recent USAID-funded Tanzania Smallholder Empowerment and Economic Growth through Agribusiness and Association Development (SEEGAAD) project, which has helped to train local Tanzanian seaweed farmers in environmentally sound farming of commercially viable seaweed to develop an extra income source. ACDI/VOCA-Tanzania Chief of Party Rebecca Savoie, who authored the piece, shares how SEEGAAD has made important inroads in enabling smallholders to become stewards of their environment while also creating new sources of income through sustainable, profitable practices.