{"id":7321,"date":"2023-11-12T16:18:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T13:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/?p=7321"},"modified":"2023-11-12T16:25:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T13:25:03","slug":"prof-mwaseba-presents-the-third-national-ecological-organic-agriculture-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/news\/prof-mwaseba-presents-the-third-national-ecological-organic-agriculture-conference","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Mwaseba presents at the Third National Ecological Organic Agriculture Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7323 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231031-WA0004-293x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231031-WA0004-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231031-WA0004-1001x1024.jpg 1001w, https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231031-WA0004-768x785.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG-20231031-WA0004.jpg 1056w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/>Prof. Mwaseba, Coordinator, Agroecology Hub in Tanzania Project and member of the department, had an opportunity to give a keynote speech at the Third National Ecological Organic Agriculture Conference. His topic was\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif\">Scaling up Agroecology in Tanzania whose abstract is as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif\">In recent years, the dominant industrial or conventional agriculture has been criticized for being unable to meet the needs of people equitably. Thus, agroecology is seen as its alternative because of having significant potential social and environmental benefits. With particular focus on Tanzania, the presentation highlights positive developments on agroecology in the country. Next, it shows that despite the positive developments made there are several policy related challenges that hold back scaling up agroecology. Finally, it points out opportunities, which if exploited could help promote agroecological intensification in the country. The <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif\">Key words of new Agroecology, scaling up, agroecological intensification, and industrial agriculture.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Mwaseba, Coordinator, Agroecology Hub in Tanzania Project and member of the department, had an opportunity to give a keynote speech at the Third National Ecological Organic Agriculture Conference. His topic was\u00a0Scaling up Agroecology in Tanzania whose abstract is as follows: In recent years, the dominant industrial or conventional agriculture has been criticized for being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7325,"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321\/revisions\/7325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}