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5 Shilingi FAO
| Issuer | Bank of Tanzania |
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| Year | 1978 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#12, Schön#13 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | TANZANIA 1978 RAIS WA KWANZA |
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Tanzania's 1978 FAO coinage was part of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's decades-long program encouraging member nations to mint coins carrying agricultural themes as a form of public education — the FAO effectively subsidized or coordinated dozens of such issues across the developing world through the 1970s. Tanzania's participation aligned with Julius Nyerere's *Ujamaa* collectivization policy, which had been forcibly resettling rural populations into communal villages since 1973, a program that by 1978 had demonstrably reduced agricultural output rather than increasing it.