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Potentials of urban horticulture for poverty reduction in Dar es Salaam: a case of Kinondoni municipal
Eldis Poverty Resource Guide, 2009Although 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. Likewise, not many attempts have been made so far to provide empirical evidence related to contribution of the urban agriculture to poverty reduction.DocumentAgroforestry options for Tanzania
World Agroforestry Centre, 2009This 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 and adapt to climate change, halt land degradation and conserve on-farm biodiversity.DocumentStakeholder-driven funding mechanisms for agricultural innovation: cases from Sub-Saharan Africa
Royal Tropical Institute, 2005This 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 innovation, with stakeholder management, could combine greater efficiency.DocumentAmbivalence and contradiction: a review of the policy environment in Tanzania in relation to pastoralism.
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006How can pastoralist livelihoods be supported and enhanced? What aspects of the current policy environment can be built on?DocumentRights-based approaches to forest conservation
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2008In 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 also looks at some examples from countries where there is a need for RBA’s.DocumentSurvival of the fittest. Pastoralism and climate change in East Africa
Oxfam, 2008This paper analyses the policies required to enable pastoralist communities to cope with the impact of climate change.DocumentExploring strategic priorities for regional agricultural R&D investments in East and Central Africa
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008This 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) programs is bound to prove inefficient and costly. Instead, potential economies of scale can be derived through the regionalisation of R&D.DocumentA preliminary assessment of energy and ecosystem resilience in ten African countries
HELIO International, 2007Africa 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.DocumentFocus on... A green revolution for Africa
New Agriculturalist, 2008Forty 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 New Green Revolution in Africa.DocumentPoverty, pastoralism and policy in Ngorongoro: lessons learned from the Ereto I Ngorongoro pastoralist project with implications for pastoral development and the policy debate
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008Recent years have seen pastoralist communities in Tanzania becoming increasingly impoverished and vulnerable, due to livestock diseases, drought, fluctuating market prices and unfavourable policies.Pages