VIDEO: Introduction to Tanzania Healthy Plate Model – Episode #1.

Kickstart Your Healthy Journey by joining Dr. Germana Leyna. Managing Director, TFNC and Rev. Modest Pesha as they explore the Tanzania Healthy Plate Model!. Learn the significance of fortified foods like flour and oils and discover practical tips for incorporating the six food groups into your meals. Elevate your healthy cooking game together.

With its Lishe Bora ni Mtaji (Good Nutrition is an Investment) slogan, is the national nutrition campaign that include activities such as cooking programs, dala dala (minibus) nutrition education tours,  trainings for female youth, and the establishment of msosi asilia (traditional food sites). For the past two years, the campaign has reached over 32 million people via traditional and social media platforms.

The Lishe Bora ni Mtaji Campaign supports health, social and economic benefits that addresses malnutrition in all its forms beginning early in life. Implemented by FAO and titled “Building Resilience of Agri-Food Systems and Better Nutrition in the Context of the Global Pandemic” Lishe Bora ni Mtaji is the fourth component of the AGRI-CONNECT Programme that Supports Coffee, Tea and Horticulture Value Chains for Shared Prosperity, which focuses mainly on nutrition and establishing systems to help absorb pandemic-like shocks to food and market accessibility.

Funded by the European Union, AGRI-CONNECT Programme is managed by the Ministry of Agriculture in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, Natural Resources, and Livestock in Zanzibar, and its various components are implemented in collaboration with and through the support of a team of Technical Assistants, Civil Society Organisations, Private Sector Companies, and Government institutions such as the Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Regional Administration and Local Government (PO-RALG), Ministry of Works and the Tanzania Rural and Urban Roads Agency (TARURA).

This post is produced with the financial support from the European Union through AGRI-CONNECT Programme. Its contents do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.