A 2 day Tanzania dairy value chain impact pathways workshop was held on 7-8 May 2013 to communicate and validate the program’s intervention logic in the Tanzania dairy value chain, question and clarify the program’s potential to achieve impact in the Tanzania dairy value chain, and to develop an initial framework for program monitoring and evaluation/impact assessment.

Workshop participants were drawn from a wide range of stakeholders: program implementers in the value chain, various scientists involved in the dairy value chain, representatives of the Tanzania dairy regulatory board, farmer forums, implementing partner organizations, national agricultural research institutions, government and the private sector.

Among the biggest challenges of the Tanzania dairy value chain identified by participants were production related challenges such as subsistence production, low production resulting to low per capita consumption of milk, poor feeds and technology practices resulting to low outputs and the inability to access good practice information.