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    The impact of access to credit and training on technological adoption: a case of the rice sector in Tanzania

    AgEcon Search, 2011
    The imbalance between domestic production of rice and rice consumption has been growing in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Nevertheless, one possible strategy for achieving productivity improvement is to seek an Asian-style rice Green Revolution in SSA.
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    Studies of the waterscape of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania: water management in hill furrow irrigation

    Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2011
    The main objective of this thesis is to contribute knowledge of water management and water use in hill furrow irrigation in Kilimanjaro region in Tanzania. The paper analyses the waters of the region, conceptualised as a waterscape constituted by material, institutional and ideational aspects. The study underlines the following facts: 
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    Real-time evaluation of Norway’s international climate and forest initiative: Tanzania

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011
    In April 2008, Norway and Tanzania signed a letter of intent on a climate change partnership focused on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). The current paper reviews Norwegian-supported programmes on adaptation and mitigation of climate change in Tanzania, trying to find out how fruitful this partnership has been.
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    Studies of the waterscape of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania: water management in hill furrow irrigation

    Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2010
    The practices and technology related to irrigation in Tanzania are relevant to debates about indigenous intensive agricultural systems, concerning their sustainability and prospects for development. This study analyses water system of the Kilimanjaro region in Tanzania, focusing on its material, institutional, and ideational aspects.
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    Land investments or land grab?: a critical view from Tanzania and Mozambique

    Development Fund, Norway, 2010
    This report discusses the potential benefits of, and the current challenges for, agricultural land investment in Tanzania and Mozambique. The paper finds that there is little, if any, development potential in these investments.
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    Freedom and poverty in the fishery commons

    International Journal of the Commons, 2010
    Based on case studies of small-scale fisheries and poverty in Bangladesh and Tanzania, this article argues that the root of the tragedy of the commons is the restriction of freedom rather than unlimited freedom.
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    Empowering Maasai women in Tanzania

    2010
    Maasai women are among the poorest and most marginalised groups in Tanzanian society. A local women-led organisation – the Pastoral Women’s Council – works to improve the lives of Maasai pastoralist women and children by increasing their access to social services and economic empowerment.
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    Farmer perspectives on the usefulness of technologies introduced by on-farm research: the case of the TARP II - SUA programme

    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009
    The objectives of this study are to find evidence to what extent farmers still use the technologies that were introduced during the TARPII-SUA programme in Tanzania, and to identify the farmers’ reasons for adopting or rejecting the technologies.
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    Tracking results in agriculture and rural development in less-than-ideal conditions

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
    While donors and development practitioners still lack a common framework of results indicators to measure the effectiveness of development assistance, this sourcebook sets out a menu of core indicators that can be used to monitor agriculture and rural development (ARD) at the project, national regional and global levels.
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    Moving out of poverty in Tanzania: evidence from Kagera

    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 others are not. This kind of research is most insightful when it is focuses on pathways out of poverty under particularly trying circumstances.

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