SAPTA - Soil-Animals' Power Tanzania

SAPTA is an agroecological non-governmental organization that deals with sustainable soil quality, animal husbandry services, and environmental conservation and Climate change matters to improve the quality of agriculture, food security, and livelihood in Tanzania. SAPTA was established in March 2021 and was registered on 11/12/2023 with the registration number ooNGO/R/5479 under the Non-Governmental Organizations Act, No. 24 of 2002, to operate in Tanzania.

SAPTA specifically targets to work with smallholder farmers, women, and youths. Smallholder farmers, women, and youths in agriculture are faced with challenges like poor agricultural techniques; inadequate knowledge of sustainable agriculture, limited supply of organic agricultural inputs, limited access to opportunities, and unreliable markets for their produce which are impacting soil quality, animal husbandry and environment, leading to high cost of production and low yields in agriculture, climate change and increase in poverty levels.

SAPTA intervenes through knowledge transfer, farmers-specialists linkage, graduation model approach, environmental conservation strategies, collaboration and networking, research and innovations, and linkage of farmers to reliable markets. SAPTA aims to improve agricultural quality making it sustainable, food security, climate change impact mitigation, biodiversity conservation, and people’s livelihood.