Tanzania
This report analyses how Tanzania is failing to use its considerable mineral resources to tackle poverty, and asks: where is Tanzania’s mineral wealth going? Gold mining is the fastest growing sector of Tanzania’s economy. Minerals now account for nearly half the country’s exports and Tanzania is Africa’s third largest gold producer. Yet ordinary Tanzanians are...
In Babati, Tanzania, young people face the future without any information of financial and technical resources necessary to deal with declining soil fertility, poor yields, the diseases and consequences of inappropriate land management practices that undermine livestock productivity. Extension services are minimal, limited access to inputs, lack of credit and infrastructure necessary to ensure...
Coffee has been the main source of income for small-scale farmers in Kagera, Tanzania. Although Kagera is a major coffee producing area, farmers had problems making a living from coffee production, due to low volumes and fluctuating market prices. The low remuneration has discouraged young people from becoming involved in coffee production. In 1999, with the aim of improving the livelihoods of...
Farmers in Bwipa, a remote village in the district of Ileje, in the southern Mbeya region of Tanzania, regularly grow maize, bananas, potatoes and upland rice. The maize seed most often planted in this area is a high yielding hybrid type, but is prone to disease and pest attacks. Compared to the local varieties, hybrid maize is less tasty and more expensive. Furthermore, because it is a hybrid...
The introduction of technologies and establishment of market linkages is of limited assistance without a corresponding expansion of awareness about organic production, trade and new ways of working together. Organic agriculture that integrates both a production and a community focus gives an opportunity to secure sustainable livelihoods for smallholders in Africa. This can enable them to make...
Part of the worldwide biodiversity program DIVERSITAS, the Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA) assesses the biological richness of high-elevation biota. GMBA’s focus includes the uppermost forest regions or their substitute rangeland vegetation, the treeline ecotone, and the alpine and nival belts. Providing more than description, the GMBA explains the causes of biological...
Creating a shared vision is one way of building the capacity of communities to adapt, survive and thrive into an unknowable future. Visioning can bring coherence to the activities of diverse stakeholders and create the incentive and basis for participatory planning. By holding workshops which integrate knowledge from many different sources and which offer opportunities for joint learning among...
The two principal aims of Education International (EI) are to advocate for the right to quality education for all people and to fight for the improvement of the welfare and status of teachers and other education employees through the effective application of their human and trade union rights. In that respect, EI fully supports the achievement of Education for All (EFA) targets and Millennium...
Smallholder maize farmers in Ileje, Tanzania, became the focus of attention of an international soil fertility improvement project. The project recommended a new way of cultivation that included moving from ridges to flat beds, and extended loans for external inputs. Although yields had improved, farmers preferred to go back to their traditional system once the project had ended. This Field...
This report is an output of IIED’s collaborative research project “Policy that works for biodiversity and poverty reduction” and is based on a literature review and three country case studies (India, Peru and Tanzania). It makes the connection between external policy, institutional and economic instruments and processes and the performance of community based initiatives for...
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