Tanzania and Agriculture and food
- Capital:
Dodoma - Population:
41892895 - Size:
945087.0 Km2
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- The BLDS agriculture collection
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Search for the latest agriculture-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Poverty reduction through livelihoods diversification in rural Tanzania
- J. de Weerdt / Journal of Development Studies, 2009
- In order to increase the impact of poverty reduction programmes, development practitioners are increasingly attempting to understand the reasons why particular communities and individuals are able to escape from poverty, while ot...
- Urban agriculture for poverty reduction: farmers in Tanzania show the way
- H.E. Masashua; P.J. Dimoso; F.G.H. Hawassi / Eldis Poverty Resource Guide, 2009
- Although urban agriculture plays an important role in economic development, activities that support urban agriculture are rarely included in programmes for urban development and poverty reduction. Likewis...
- Is agroforestry a solution to climate change?
- World Agroforestry Centre, 2009
- This policy brief analyses agroforestry as a tool for improving livelihood in Tanzania and tackling emerging local and global challenges. The paper argues that agroforestry creates a web of resilient land use practices that mitigate a...
- Strengthening multi-stakeholder funding mechanisms for agricultural R&D
- W. Heemskerk (ed); B. Wennink (ed) / Royal Tropical Institute, 2005
- This bulletin focuses on experiences in Tanzania and Benin with stakeholder-driven funding mechanisms for agricultural research and development. This paper discusses how the reorganisation of funding mechanisms for agricultural innova...
- How pastoralist livelihoods can be supported and enhanced
- A. Mattee; M. Shem / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006
- How can pastoralist livelihoods be supported and enhanced? What aspects of the current policy environment can be built on?Tanzania is undergoing a rapid pace of policy change and reforms which will affect different communities in different ...
- The need for rights-based approaches for people impacted by conservation practices
- International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2008
- In context of the recent emergence of the debate on rights-based approaches (RBA) to conservation, this paper provides a collaborative piece of work on the constitution of RBA’s and some of the key issues surrounding them. It al...
- Policies to address pastoralists impacted by climate change
- Oxfam, 2008
- This paper analyses the policies required to enable pastoralist communities to cope with the impact of climate change. Although pastoralism makes a significant contribution to the gross domestic product (GDP) in many...
- Greater economic benefits from pooling regional resources in East and Central Africa
- J. You; M. Johnson / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
- This paper explains that given that many countries in the East and Central Africa region are small and face similar agro-ecological, climatic, and development challenges, relying on expensive national research and development (R&D...
- Climate change and sub-Saharan Africa: points of vulnerability and potential for adaptation
- H. Connor; L. Mqadi; P. Mukheibir / HELIO International, 2007
- Africa is vulnerable to climate change on two fronts: firstly, because of existing vulnerabilities and secondly, due to capacity limitations for disaster mitigation and inability to adapt to climate change. There is an urgent nee...
- Raising productivity in African agriculture: innovative approaches
- New Agriculturalist, 2008
- Forty years after the Asian Green Revolution , the spotlight has now turned on African agriculture. Increasing attention is being paid to the need for greater investment in African agriculture and key organisations are pushing for a N...
- Sokoine University of Agriculture
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