This year, the Dar es Salaam region in Tanzania celebrated World Food Day (October 16) with an agricultural/food exhibition at the Malolo Farmers’ Training Center in Kinondoni Municipality.

WorldVeg Amazing Amaranth project partner Ruth Minja from the Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute (MARI) participated by showing a field experiment of WorldVeg Breeder Fekadu Dinssa’s amaranth breeding lines and explaining the nutritional importance of amaranth to the guest of honor, the Deputy Minister for Agriculture.