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, …
Tata Chemicals is getting considerable stick from conservation groups and environmentalists in Africa over its plan to set up a soda ash facility jointly with the Tanzanian government. It is being feared that the venture, for which a memorandum of understanding has been signed, may drive the world's rarest bird
Plans to establish a soda-ash plant on the shores of Lake Natron in northern Tanzania is facing strong opposition. Conservationists fear harm to the rare flamingo. The plant is to be set up by the Indian company Tata Chemicals Limited, which manufactures inorganic chemicals. Chris Magin of uk's Royal Society …
Renewable energy pioneers from Bangladesh, China, India, Laos and Tanzania were among the winners of this year's Ashden Awards for Sustainable Development. Kerala-based ngo Biotech was adjudged the winner in the Food Security category. It bagged the 30,000 pounds (us $60,000) prize for developing biogas plants that use food waste …
A model is developed to understand the relationship between satellite-derived NDVI and rainfall data in a large tropical catchment. Two Fourier-based modeling techniques with a seasonal component, viz. a seasonal model (SM) and a linear perturbation model (LPM) are tested, and their performance in reproducing the observed NDVI was evaluated. …
global warming is for real, say researchers at Ohio State University, usa. They have presented startling evidence of global warming affecting the tropics at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lonnie Thompson, along with his team, has been carrying out research on glaciers and …
With Burundi, a small east African country, emerging from a 13-year-long civil war, more than 400,000 refugees have started returning home. Its newly elected government now faces the daunting task of land allocation, which could plunge the country back into civil war. Burundi experienced a mass exodus in 1972, following …
The island of Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania, has banned the import, production, use and sale of plastic bags below 30 microns size. Violators risk jail sentences of six months, a fine of us $2,000 or both. The move by the semi-autonomous island government is to protect its environment …
an aids vaccine, developed by scientists in Sweden, has produced surprisingly good results. More than 90 per cent of subjects in phase 1 trials of the vaccine developed an immune response to hiv, the virus that causes aids, say scientists from the Karolinska Institute, the Karolinska University Hospital and the …
The Tanzanian government recently began evicting pastoralists from the Ihefu basin in the country's Mbeya city claiming they were causing environmental degradation. Ihefu, a catchment basin of Rufiji river in the Mbeya city, is also known as the Usangu wetland. Around 1,000 pastoralists, who collectively own two million heads of …
a recent study has thrown light on how the chikungunya virus attained epidemic proportions in the Indian Ocean region since September 2005. A team of researchers at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, has spotted several changes in the genetic makeup of the little-known virus that may have helped it proliferate. …
Even weeks after about 600 bluenose dolphins were washed ashore at Zanzibar's Nungwi beach, a popular tourist destination, scientists are still clueless. Experts say the dolphins might have been hurt by oil pollution, poisonous seaweed or simply a fast-receding tide, reports Reuters. Others hint that sonar from us submarines might …
science may have found it a year ago but discovered its value only recently. The shy, white-whiskered, greyish-brown monkey found in Tanzania in 2005 had earlier been classified as a new primate species. But it now turns out that the monkey represents a new genus (class)
For the third time in five years, negotiations on fishing between the European Union (eu) and Tanzania failed because of dissatisfaction with the conditions of the agreement. eu recently rejected a proposal by Tanzania to restart negotiations on an agreement on tuna fishing zone beyond 12 nautical miles from the …
This publication takes a broad look at several dimensions of carbon trading. It analyses the problems arising from the emerging global carbon market pertaining to the environment, social justice and human rights, and investigates climate mitigation alternatives. It provides a short history of carbon trading and discusses a number of …
lions are killing people in Tanzania three times more frequently than 15 years ago. Since 1990, they have killed over 563 Tanzanians and injured another 308, says a survey published in the August 18, 2005, issue of the journal Nature. Tanzania has the largest lion population in Africa. Craig Packer, …
Over 90 per cent of Tanzania's population (over 30 million people) is threatened by an elephantiasis (lymphatic filaria) epidemic. On May 23, 2005, Tanzania's assistant minister for health Hussein Mwinyi said the danger was "great'; "the situation could get worse if the trend is left unchecked'. The National Institute for …
British generosity is at an all time high. The uk is providing us $74 million debt relief to Tanzania. The deal was signed on January 14, 2005, during the visit of uk finance minister Gordon Brown, who was touring African countries. The uk will now pay 10 per cent of …
