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Survival of the fittest: Pastoralism and climate change in East Africa
Climate change is having a destructive impact on many groups around the world. Pastoralists in East Africa have been adapting to climate variability for millennia and their adaptability ought to enable them to cope with this growing challenge. This paper explains the policies required to enable sustainable and productive pastoralist communities to cope with the impact of climate change and...
Community based technology solutions: Adapting to climate change

Adaptation to the impacts of climate change will require considerable innovation and cooperation. Following the principles outlined in this Manual, users may successfully initiate technological solutions which benefit communities which are in need; and which will help at the very least to prevent causing harm with the 'best of intentions'.

The examples contained in this Manual are small...

"Say it with pictures": An account of a self assessment process in a dairy sector support project in Tanzania

The Southern Highlands Dairy Development Project (SHDDP) has been working in Tanzania since 1979 to strengthen the private dairy sector, with the specific goal of 'contributing to the family income of dairy farmers and the nutritional status amongst their communities'. In the latest phase of the project (1996-99), SHDDP has moved away from supporting dairy production towards a more holistic...

Participatory evaluation of a community water project in Tanzania

Projects which have been taking a participatory approach are beginning to see that participation does not have to come to an abrupt halt when the time arrives to evaluate the project's activities. Thus, in recent years participatory evaluations have been coming into vogue. This is an account of the process of a participatory evaluation carried out in Tabora in central Tanzania for WaterAid.

Looking to the future: Map drawing in Madah, central Tanzania

High quantities of small-scale farmers have begun to settle in the hills of central Tanzania. New communities have formed without the governance necessary to regulate in-coming settlers and their use of land. There is a lack of government and community policy focused on the settlement issue. A participatory mapping exercise in one such community was found to help the community analyse land use...

Conserving agricultural landscapes in the highlands of eastern Africa: The prospects of water as an entry point

The agricultural landscape in the highlands of eastern Africa is characterised by increasing fragmentation and serious degradation mainly due to high population pressure and limited use of available technological innovations. Participatory natural resource management (NRM) action research by the African Highlands Initiative (AHI) for the past 12 years has shown that an important reason for...

Gender equality in health
This booklet presents the context of gender equality in health and gives guidance on gender sensitive programming with case examples from Tanzania, South Africa and Bangladesh. Ideas for joint policy development and intervention activities to promote gender equality in health can be found on the last pages of the booklet.
Agroforestry and integrated land-use in Tanzania
Shengereza Kimweri is a farmer of Longoi, Usambara Mountains. Like many villagers he is looking for alternatives in agriculture, since farming has become quite a risky exercise, far from producing a satisfactory farm income. Currently applied cropping patterns on his 2.5 ha farm date back to colonial times, when crop prices made farmers change their traditional production patterns of a variety of...
Vegetation zonation and nomenclature of African mountains: An overview
This review provides an overview on the vegetation zonation of a large part of the mountain systems of the African continent. The Atlas and Jebel Marra are discussed as examples for the dry North African Mountains. The Drakensberg range is shown as representative of the mountain systems of Southern Africa. The main focus of the review falls on the Afrotropical mountains: Mt. Kenya, Aberdares,...
Transaction costs of community-based forest management: Empirical evidence from Tanzania
Levels of transaction costs in community-based forest management (CBFM) in four communities adjacent to the Ambangulu mountain forests of the north-east of Tanzania were assessed through questionnaire responses from 120 households. Costs and benefits of CBFM to the rich, medium and poor groups of forest users were estimated. Costs of CBFM were participation in forest monitoring and time spent in...

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