The AIRF’s primary product is to strengthen technical capabilities and competences in entrepreneurship development among agricultural stakeholders, dissemination of good agricultural practices, agro-commodities quality and safety (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, HACCP, SPS Measures), by working in collaboration with the government, public sector, civil society, donor community and the growing private sector.  It delivers this through research, consultancies, capacity building, coordination, facilitation and provision of training and coaching. Above all, AIRF ensures that processes are focused on delivering intended outputs and practical valences.  Some of the programs include:

• To advise organizations and train employees on issues of strategy formulation and implementation; entrepreneurship development; technology development, acquisition, and transfer; marketing; supply chain management; and human resource management within and outside Tanzania.

• To support enterprises and organizations to thrive and grow by providing them advice on: strategic management, feasibility studies, policy analysis and formulation; program implementation, monitoring, and evaluation; investment and capital budgeting; innovation and technology transfer; industrial best practices and know how; and providing them with technical support services; research and development services; environmental services, and information and counseling services.

• To advise firms in the areas of entrepreneurship development, knowledge and technology up gradation, corporate sustainable development, innovative green competitive strategies, strategic and business planning, supply chain management, risk management, organizational viability enhancement, environment assessment, corporate environment management, compliance performance management, customer relationship management, e-commerce, and international trade.

• To provide management consulting services in quality management, value adding strategies, corporate transformation, and competition in the global arena, global supply chain management, project management and corporate finance management.

• To perform research, acquisition, and distribution of value-for-money, low-energy-consuming innovative green technologies.

• To collaborate and share knowledge, information, build skills and partnerships with multiple stakeholders at local, regional and global levels so as to create new markets for clients products and services, gain access to networks, and to prepare firms to address the coming challenges and seizing the opportunities in emerging markets.

• To deliver customized, creative, innovative training and capacity development courses.

• To carry out studies, equipment and plant designs, capital investment appraisals, preparation of tender documents and bills of quantities, works implementation, control and supervision, and commercialization of projects.

• To deal in provision of know-how, research, supply, production, marketing, distribution and customer service functions in the agro-commodities supply chain and related goods and services.
• To solve technical and management problems in HVA through collaborative and innovative integrated management approaches, i.e. by engaging a wide range of stakeholders in developing the requisite strategies, action plans, implementation and evaluation process, according to the Deming cycle.

Consulting

The Agricultural Innovation Research Foundation (AIRF) covers the fields of: Strategic Planning and Strategic Management of Businesses; Sustainable Agriculture; Viability Assessment and Value Chain Analysis, Entrepreneurship and Agribusiness Development; Mitigation and Adaptation of Farming Systems to Climate Change; Technology Exchange; Quality and Safe Agro-Production and Processing (GAP and GMP);Food and Feed Safety; Sustainable Management of Natural Resources; Environmental Management (Environment Impact Assessment, Environmental Risk Assessment, Environmental Management System, Eco-Balance); Provision of Agro Information and Business Intelligence; Marketing; Supply Chain Management, and Trade.