Tanzania gives land to the youth to boost productivity  

Tanzania launches Youth Guarantee Scheme and Loan Facility Special scheme to give 11,000 acres to its youth for agriculture Youth empowerment initiative to be overseen by the Agricultural Input Trust Fund Tanzania is giving land to the youth to boost agricultural productivity and create employment.  While speaking at the Africa Food Summit in Dakar, Senegal, Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan announced that the state will give 11,000 acres to it's youth for agricultural production.  Suluhu explained that the decision is part of the country’s ‘Building a Better Tommorrow’ (BBT) initiative. Through a special programme, the Tanzanian government has announced that it will give qualifying youth access to land ownership as part of the country's ongoing initiative to secure economic empowerment for its youth, the largest part of its population. The move is part of an ongoing national agricultural development initiative that is meant to develop the sector for economic empowerment.  The shortlisted youth will go through a three-month commercial agriculture training program with successful candidates getting 10 acres to engage in agricultural activities. The training program is meant to empower the youth who will use the allocated land to develop business projects to supply the country's agriculture value chain. The