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Tanzania

United Republic of Tanzania (the): FAO helps Tanzania monitor carbon stocks
feedproxy.google.com | 16 May 2012
16 May, 2012, Rome – FAO is helping scientists and policymakers in Tanzania to evaluate how much carbon is stored in forests and forests soils, which will enable them to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.Forest soils contain a huge carbon stock. Deforestation, forest degradation or changes in...

Tanzania | United Republic of

Working with communities 'best for managing fisheries'
SCIDEV.NET | 10 Apr 2012
Study finds involving local residents is the most effective way of meeting livelihood needs and protecting fish stocks.

Madagascar | Tanzania | United Republic of | Clean Development Mechanism | Fish Farming

United Republic of Tanzania (the): Apps4Africa: Winners In East Africa Contest
feedproxy.google.com | 20 Jan 2012
Source: US Department of State Country: United Republic of Tanzania (the), Kenya, Uganda Media NoteOffice of the SpokespersonWashington, DCJanuary 19, 2012The U.S. Department of State...

Tanzania | United Republic of | Uganda | Climate Change Adaptation

Awards will go to scientists in Ghana, Tanzania
SCIDEV.NET | 09 Nov 2011
A scheme that provides three-year awards for collaborative research projects between UK and African researchers is to enter a second round.Phase one of the scheme saw 33 researchers in the priority fields of agriculture, water and sanitation, basic health research, biodiversity and energy receive...

Ghana | Tanzania | United Republic of | Agriculture | Freshwater

Les arbres fertilisants en Afrique australe connaissent un grand succès
SCIDEV.NET | 03 Nov 2011
Des arbres capables de fertiliser les cultures dans leur voisinage ont été adoptés par 400.000 agriculteurs en Afrique australe, avec pour effet d'accroître leurs rendements.

Tanzania | United Republic of | Zambia | Zimbabwe

More effort needed to end dynamite fishing
thecitizen.co.tz | 12 Apr 2011
Tanzania is lucky to have many coral reefs that support extensive fishing besides attracting tourists. However, this natural endowment is endangered by dynamite fishing that abounds in large scale. Besides killing and injuring fish, it leaves behind rubble and broken corals on the sea floor, destroying the habitat for all reef species. Dynamite fishing is an old practice that has been common since the 1960s, and by the mid-1990s it became a matter of serious concern to environmentalists.

Tanzania | United Republic of | Biodiversity | Conservation

Harsh climate creates panic in Tanzania coffee sector
The East African | 12 Apr 2011
Tanzanias smallhold coffee farmers are battling numerous challenges likely to affect production in the next coffee season. A long drought in the major coffee growing regions of Kagera and Kilimanjaro has thrown coffee dealers into a panic. Engineer Adolph Kumburu, director general of Tanzania...

Tanzania | United Republic of | Agriculture | Drought | Economics and the Environment

Tarime road under major repairs
Tanzania Standard Newspapers | 11 Apr 2011
THE 45 kilometre road that links thousands of villagers residing in Tarime district with the Mwanza-Sirari tarmac highway is undergoing major repairs to make it passable throughout the year, officials said on Sunday. The project will cost close to 600m/- that has been coughed up by the North Mara...

Tanzania | United Republic of | Economics and the Environment | Road Building

Water shortage deals a blow in Mara
thecitizen.co.tz | 06 Apr 2011
The nearest constant supply of safe water is Lake Victoria, which over two-hour round trip from Nyankanga village.Some villagers routinely make this trip three or four times a day, every day, which leaves very little time for other tasks. The efforts by St Johns Church to build tanks by their homes to harvest rainwater could not yield fruits as the village gets scanty rainfall.

Tanzania | United Republic of | Access to Freshwater | Planning and Management of Development

TANZANIA: Rampaging elephants destroy crops
Africa News | 06 Apr 2011
Fear is increasingly growing that close to 400 households comprising thousands of people in the Tarime District of Mara Region in Tanzania might face hunger if stray elephants hailing from the Serengeti National Park (SENAPA) continue to destroy crop farms that are almost ready for harvesting.

Tanzania | United Republic of | Agriculture | Farming Practices | Food Security

Dar doctors worry over rise in lifestyle diseases
thecitizen.co.tz | 04 Apr 2011
Two leading physicians have expressed concern over the countrys health system, which is failing to adequately address the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), also known as lifestyle diseases. The NCDs, they note, are dangerously on the rise.

Tanzania | United Republic of | Governance

Serengeti highway threatens national park's wildebeest migration
Guardian Unlimited | 27 Mar 2011
Tanzania condemned for planned road, which critics say will be disaster for environment and ecosystem. International pressure is growing on the Tanzanian government to shelve its controversial plans to build a two-lane highway across the Serengeti, one of the most important wildlife sites in the...

Tanzania | United Republic of | Biodiversity | Industry

Tanzania: Rain Water Harvesting Improves Lives of Small Farmers
feedproxy.google.com | 22 Mar 2011
"If there's a bad year, we can stay up to 20 days without rain. The young crops die, that's the problem over here", says Rabiet E. Mkumbwa, 60, in front of his home in from Mwembe village in Tanzania's Kilimanjaro region.

Tanzania Biofuel Project's Barren Promise
Inter Press Service | 09 Mar 2011
An ambitious project to produce clean energy for the Netherlands and Belgium has degenerated into a controversial abuse of natural resources in Africa.

Tanzania | United Republic of | Agriculture | Biodiversity

Deforestation's impact on Mount Kilimanjaro calculated
ScienceDaily.com | 05 Mar 2011
The impact that local deforestation might have on the snowcap and glaciers atop Mount Kilimanjaro are being calculated using regional climate models and data from NASA satellites.

Tanzania | United Republic of | Greenhouse Gas Emissions

World Bank proposes road to save Serengeti migration
Reuters | 01 Mar 2011
The World Bank has offered Tanzania an alternative to stop a major road project across the Serengeti national park that conservationists say threatens one of Africa's biggest wildlife spectacles.

EAST AFRICA: La Niña-induced drought "to affect millions"
IRIN News | 21 Feb 2011
Since November, East African countries have registered serious drought conditions that are likely to worsen in coming months. According to data recently released by the World Meteorological Organization, the La Niña weather effect is largely responsible.

EA leaders seek ways to end food shortages in bloc
Daily Nation | 02 Dec 2010
Regional food shortage was on the menu of East African leaders talks in Arusha, Tanzania, on Thursday.

Tanzania | United Republic of | Agriculture | Farming Practices

Tanzania: Protecting the World's Most Expensive Tree
ips.org | 22 Nov 2010
Moshi, TANZANIA, With the snow-capped peak of Mount Kilimanjaro providing a backdrop under simmering tropical sunshine, a group of women in Mijongweni village break into song. The song, in Swahili, praises the benefits of protecting the environment and living in harmony with nature for the survival of generations; values vital to the survival of one of the rarest hardwood trees in the world, the African blackwood.

Tanzania | United Republic of | Environmental Awareness | Education

Local News
Arusha Times | 22 Nov 2010
The East African Community (EAC) first-ever Lake Victoria Basin Investment Forum, scheduled to take place in Mwanza, Tanzania, next month will be attended by over 1,000 regional and international business and government leaders. The Lake Victoria Basin Commission is a specialized institution of the...

Kenya | Tanzania | United Republic of | Uganda | Fisheries

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