The 20th Tanzania Economic Update (TEU) shows that accelerating a fertility decline has the potential to enable the country to reap the benefits of a demographic dividend, which refers to how improved health and reduced fertility can drive economic growth. When a country experiences better health outcomes and fewer births, …
The three-day Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2011 ended Sunday endorsing the importance of taking urgent action on climate change and global food crisis. Reflecting on the unique nature of the Commonwealth, a voluntary association which brings together 53 (Fiji's membership remained suspended) developing and developed nations from six …
Bangladesh is among five most vulnerable countries to climate change-induced food crisis and hunger, says a report. It says the 10 countries that rank most vulnerable are DRC, Burundi, South Africa, Haiti, Bangladesh, Zambia, India, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Rwanda, which account for nearly a quarter of the world’s population. …
This study sought to inform climate change policy by analysing agricultural adaptation in developing countries. Country case studies following a common methodology in Bangladesh, Malawi, Nepal, Rwanda and Tanzania, provided fresh evidence of the possible costs of agricultural adaptation to climate change. A global review of the literature on agricultural …
Daiichi Sankyo Company and Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd on Wednesday announced an initiative to sponsor mobile healthcare field clinics in India, Cameroon and Tanzania as part of their global social contribution activities. The initiative will be implemented in India through the Ranbaxy Community Health Care Society, a non-profit organisation established by …
Drug major Ranbaxy On Wednesday said it will spend nearly ¥200 million (over Rs 10 crore) along with parent company Daiichi Sankyo over the next five years to sponsor mobile healthcare field clinics in India, Cameroon and Tanzania. The services will be provided in the fields of basic healthcare, immunisation, …
Leading aid and development charity Oxfam said 36 per cent of Pakistanis were undernourished, listing Pakistan among the 21 nations of the world which were found to be undernourished according to an interactive map published on Wednesday. Pakistan was adjudged to be more undernourished than Tanzania (35 per cent), Niger …
Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki set fire to five tonnes of contraband ivory on Wednesday, a symbol of his and Africa's renewed commitment to fight poaching. Elephant numbers had started to recover after the ivory trade was banned in 1990, but observers say the rising wealth of east Asian countries has …
Researchers like to work on projects that start small and slowly scale up. They must think bigger and faster, says Sandy J. Andelman, to tackle today's problems in time. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v475/n7356/full/475290a.html
Ecologists have long hypothesized that fragmentation of tropical landscapes reduces avian nest success. However, this hypothesis has not been rigorously assessed because of the difficulty of finding large numbers of well-hidden nests in tropical forests. Here we report that in the East Usambara Mountains in Tanzania, which are part of …
Tanzania will build an unpaved road through the Serengeti National Park and game rangers will control traffic to avoid disturbing the annual migration of wildebeest. "The Serengeti road project has not been abandoned ... we have just revised it. I don't know where all this confusion comes from," Natural Resources …
U.N. world heritage body UNESCO says Tanzania will reconsider plans for a major road across its Serengeti National Park that critics said would upset one of Africa's top wildlife spectacles -- the annual migration of some two million wildebeest. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization said Tanzania's Natural …
Tanzania, one of Africa's top gold producers, is considering a "super profit" tax on earnings from minerals as one of the ways to fund its five-year development plan, according to documents seen by Reuters. The move follows similar steps in other producer countries that have sought to increase fiscal revenue …
Efficient cookstoves and better crop seeds could play a key role in saving forests in sub-Saharan Africa, helping to cut emissions of climate-warming carbon dioxide, environmental experts reported on Sunday. This is important, since deforestation and forest degradation are the second-largest source of human-caused carbon dioxide emissions after the burning …
Bangladesh is planning to take lease of huge amounts of land in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania for farming aiming at ensuring its food security as well as creating jobs for its farmers. President Zillur Rahman was apprised of the developments in this regard by the newly appointed Bangladesh Ambassador to …
Understanding the endogenous factors that drive the population dynamics of malaria mosquitoes will facilitate more accurate predictions about vector control effectiveness and our ability to destabilize the growth of either low- or high-density insect populations. We assessed whether variation in phenotypic traits predict the dynamics of Anopheles gambiae sensu lato …
Identifying human activities which influence degradation of catchment forests offers input/solutions for its management to the benefit of communities who depend on resources from the forest. Data were collected in 4 villages using questionnaire, in-depth interviews and focused group discussions. Results revealed that the main human activities disturbing Meru forest …
In Madina village, outside Accra, Ghana, children tease each other about whose urine has a redder color. Apart from being strikingly thin, they look healthy. Yet they could be affected by Schistosoma haematobium, a parasitic disease common in Africa, where local prevalence rates can exceed 50%. Early diagnosis ensures inexpensive …
In 2009, giant African pouched rats trained to detect tuberculosis (TB) evaluated sputum samples from 10,523 patients whose sputum had previously been evaluated by smear microscopy. Microscopists found 13.3% of the patients to be TB-positive. Simulated second-line screening by the rats revealed 620 new TB-positive patients, increasing the case detection …
In 2009, giant African pouched rats trained to detect tuberculosis (TB) evaluated sputum samples from 10,523 patients whose sputum had previously been evaluated by smear microscopy. Microscopists found 13.3% of the patients to be TB-positive. Simulated second-line screening by the rats revealed 620 new TB-positive patients, increasing the case detection …
An FM radio station broadcasting from the western Tanzanian town of Ngara is bringing HIV prevention information to thousands of Burundian and Rwandan refugees living in the region. Radio Kwizear began broadcasting 15 years ago, but it added a weekly 30-minute HIV-focused programme, You and Me, Together We Can, in …
