Building Resilient Farmers

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Enhancing Sustainable Food Systems for a Transformative Agriculture Sector in Tanzania.

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Tanzania Agricultural Development Bank (TADB) is a state-owned development finance institution with the mandate to provide short, medium, and long-term affordable credit facilities for achieving inclusive socio-economic development in Tanzania. The Bank has been established in response to the national goals enshrined in Vision 2025 to achieve food self-sufficiency and food security, economic development, and poverty reduction.

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Established in 2015 under the Companies Act, of 2002, and licensed under the provisions of the Banking and Financial Institution Act No 5 of 2006 and the Banking and Financial Institutions (Development Finance) Regulations.

Our key Statistics for the agricultural sector in Tanzania.
32 %
agricultue contribution to GDP
80 %
crops rely directly on rainfall
60 %
are employed in agriculture production
43 %
total land area
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TADB has adopted the Integrated Value Chain Financing Model (IVCF) to enhances various interventions focused on developing unique solutions to different nodes of a particular value chain. This ensures lending with transformation impact. The IVCF model is used alongside blended financial instruments to deliver interventions that create sustainable socioeconomic impact.

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Agency Fund Management

The Smallholder Farmers Credit Guarantee Scheme (SCGS) designated to catalyse financial sector lending to the Agriculture sector especially to smallholder farmers in the rural areas by providing guarantees to Partner Financial Institutions.

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Climate Action Focus

In cognizance of the adverse impacts of climate change on the agriculture sector, TADB is committed to ensure it plays a catalytic and leading role in climate financing for agricultural interventions to adapt/respond to challenges of climate change

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Green Bank: TADB ESS Framework

A comprehensive Environmental and Social Management System (ESMS) guiding the Bank to effectively manage environmental and social risks and impacts resulting from agricultural activities and projects financed by TADB.

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Climate-Smart Agriculture in Tanzania

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In fulfilling our commitment towards environmental stewardship, climate-resilient and sustainable agricultural development, TADB has put in place a comprehensive Environmental and Social Management System (ESMS) guiding the Bank to effectively manage environmental and social risks and impacts resulting from agricultural activities and projects financed by TADB. The system sets out a ray of management processes, governing policy, procedures and essential tools that allow TADB to assess, identify, analyze and mitigate any potential adverse environmental and social impacts of the Bank’s activities and financed projects.

To support smallholder farmers to access financial services from the banking sector. As a national Apex bank for Agriculture, TADB was appointed as the Administrator to manage the guarantee scheme on behalf of the Government. The Smallholder Farmers Credit Guarantee Scheme (SCGS) was officially launched in February 2018. The scheme provide guarantees to Partner Financial Institutions to support lending to the Agriculture sector. The SCGS provide up to 50% cash cover to partner commercial banks, community banks and micro finance institutions guarantee agriculture loans under the scheme.

TADB has set out its second Medium-term Strategy 2023 – 2027, following completion of the first Rolling Business Plan 2016-2021, stemming from the Bank's Long-term Strategic Plan 2016-2035. The bank will focus on five key thematic priorities consistent and aligned with national strategies. These strategic priorities include catalyzing agricultural financing, value chain development, climate change and climate smart agriculture, financial inclusion and capacity to deliver.

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