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, …
At the Randilen Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in northern Tanzania, the searing heat and parched terrain make it an attractive hour for a cold swim. A herd of some dozen elephants are doing just that inside a bowl-shaped pool. For about an hour, a group of visiting scientists remains glued …
East Africa (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda) contains 1,776 protected areas (including 186 "strict" protected areas) covering more than 27 percent of its terrestrial area. Researchers at UC Davis have now documented the extent to which this East African protected area network really protects wildlife and habitats. Credit: Jason …
Rufiji — The National Environmental Management Council (Nemc) gave the thumbs up to the development of the Stiegler's Gorge project, the agency's director general, Mr Samwel Gwamaka has said. "Being the institution responsible for management of our environment, we ensured all environment and social impact assessments were made before this …
Tanzania and Malawi on Tuesday launched a joint commission on Songwe River Basin aimed at running irrigation and power generation projects worth 829 million U.S. dollars. The commission was launched in Kyela district in the southern highland region of Mbeya by Tanzanian Deputy Minister for Water and Irrigation Jumaa Aweso …
In a new paper published recently in the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution, mathematicians and conservationists from the UK, Africa and the United States discuss how they have used both machine-learning and citizen science techniques to accurately count wildebeest in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania more rapidly than …
Tanzania has relaxed the mining sector regulations that require local companies to own controlling stake in multinationals. Once seen as too ambitious, the Mining Sector Regulations 2018 required Tanzanian companies to have at least 51 per cent stake in mining firms while multinationals were to partner with their locally owned …
Same — Over 93 families in Same District, Kilimanjaro Region have been rendered homeless after their houses were destroyed by hailstorm. Kadando Village at Maore Ward is the most affected of all. Kilimanjaro Regional Commissioner Anna Mghwira confirmed occurrence of the freak hailstorm on March 6, 2019 during an exclusive …
Tanzania has given Acacia Mining Plc up to March 30 to stop waste water pollution at North Mara gold mine or face a shutdown, its mining minister said. Doto Biteko, said he had issued the deadline to stop what he said was seepage of contaminated water from a mining waste …
The country's first wind powered electricity is expected to be generated in Makambako District in Njombe region, southwest of Tanzania. The project's development is spearheaded by Windlab Development Tanzania and is progressing well. The project, Miombo Hewani Wind Farm as it is called, is a planned 300 Megawatts in wind-powered …
The carbon footprint of food loss and waste (FLW) is estimated to be up to 3.49 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent (gtCO2e), representing up to 6–10% of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (HLPE 2014). Addressing FLW can reduce the emission intensity of the agricultural system; i.e. the number of …
Zanzibar's anti-malaria campaign is paying off, with research showing a drop in transmission of about 94 per cent. A study conducted in two rural districts, North A (Unguja Island) and Micheweni (Pemba Island) and published in the journal, BMC Medicine, attributes this low transmission rate to a nationwide control programme …
Authorities in Ngorongoro Conservation Area are fighting the spread of an invasive elephant grass now spreading to occupy the highlands of the wildlife-rich park. The plant had infested about 40 per cent of the highlands within the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA), posing a threat to wildlife and the Maasai …
GOMBE, Tanzania — On the eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika, 16 kilometers (10 miles) north of the town of Kigoma in Tanzania, lies the green, dense forest of Gombe National Park. Made famous by British primatologist Jane Goodall’s decades-long research on the park’s resident chimpanzees, Gombe, at 52 square kilometers …
THE government has secured 210bn/- loan for upgrading and expanding Dar es Salaam City sewage system. The money, according to Minister of Water, Prof Makame Mbarawa, would enable to increase the wastewater coverage from current 10 per cent to 30 per cent in Dar. "We are doing similar projects in …
The 2015-2016 El Niño event brought weather conditions that triggered regional disease outbreaks throughout the world, according to a new NASA study that is the first to comprehensively assess the public health impacts of the major climate event on a global scale. El Niño is an irregularly recurring climate pattern …
Two people died and eight others were hospitalized following an anthrax outbreak in northern Tanzania's district of Moshi, authorities confirmed on Wednesday. Anna Mghwira, Kilimanjaro Regional Commissioner said eight people were receiving treatment in two different hospitals. Five were admitted at Kilema Mission Hospital in the district and three others …
In the United Republic of Tanzania, CSA has rapidly become a key mechanism for addressing both climate change and food security. Since 2011 more than nine CSA-related policies, programmes and projects have been implemented by the government and development partners. Outcomes from CSA projects, however, have not yet been tracked …
This report identified evidence on the economic impacts of agricultural cooperatives in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The report begins with a discussion on the impact on productivity, income and welfare. Next section analyses the agricultural markets for cooperative farmers in East Africa and also discusses the impact of …
This report is intended to provide guidance to develop enabling legal frameworks governing community forestry. It offers recommendations and a framework for reflection for all actors engaged in creating, implementing or revising laws on community forestry, and for civil society in particular. Drawing lessons from the design and implementation of …
Off-grid solutions can be designed to provide affordable electricity to poor communities in hard-to-reach areas but receive only a fraction of annual global investment in energy provision. Governments hoping to harness these technologies to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 7 — universal access to energy by 2030 — must therefore find …
