The Government of Tanzania, during the last two decades embarked on a number of initiatives to improve the business environment such as BEST (Business Environment Strengthening in Tanzania). Development partners such as USAID, through projects such as ASPIRES (Agriculture Sector Policy and Institutional Reforms Strengthening project) has supported GoT’s effort to improve the policy environment in agriculture, food security and nutrition. Such support has helped accelerate policy and regulatory reform. Overall, many reforms have been carried out in the fiscal policy sphere but challenges remain, especially in the regulatory framework.

The food security and nutrition policy in Tanzania is guided by two policies: The 1993 Agricultural Policy and the 1992 Food and Nutrition Policy (FNP). Both are under review and expected to be approved during the 2020/ 21 fiscal year. The implementing strategies for Agricultural Policy and FSNP are specified by the 2017-26 Agricultural Sector Development Program, phase-two (ASDP II) and the 2016-21 National Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Action Plan (NMNAP). Under ASDP-2, Component 4 focuses on Sector Enablers (policy, regulatory framework) and Coordination. In addition to agricultural sector policies, food security and nutrition is affected by policies from other sectors. Although Tanzania has made some progress in policy reforms, many challenges remain to be addressed in order to create a favorable policy environment to
accelerate agricultural transformation, food security and nutrition, and poverty reduction.

Based on experience from the Policy Analysis Group (PAG), this section highlights the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in the implementation of activities to improve enabling policy environment. The analysis provides a justification for further investment to improve enabling policy environment in agriculture.