Green Growth Opportunities for Businesses and Investors

Overview

Billion-dollar investments will change SAGCOT, for good or bad

While the Southern Corridor has considerable agricultural potential, it currently suffers from low productivity, low levels of investment, and high rates of poverty. In an effort to unlock the region’s potential, the SAGCOT Initiative by 2030 will work to attract US $3.4 billion to increase annual farming revenues by more than US $1.2 billion, support the livelihoods of small-scale farmers—90 per cent of farmers in the Corridor—and establish southern Tanzania as a regional food exporter.

Business-as-Unusual is needed

The SAGCOT Centre is using the slogan ‘business as unusual’ to refer to efforts to facilitate private AGG investment by creating a supportive investment environment and facilitating public–private collaborations that bring together a variety of stakeholders across sectors including farmers, local businesses, international companies, international investors, civil society organizations and government agencies. This report supplements the findings of the Greenprint to describe innovative ‘business as unusual’ opportunities specifically framed for business leaders, developers and investors. It also suggests ways that public institutions and donors might support the conditions necessary to attract private investment in AGG within SAGCOT.