Key Messages Farmers in major producing areas have received low income from the unseasonably low maize and rice prices since September due to a 1,000,000 MT grain surplus, limiting their household...
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Tanzania Price Bulletin, December 2014
Maize is the main staple crop in Tanzania. Rice and beans are also very important, the latter constituting the main source of protein for most low- and middleincome households. Dar es Salaam is the...
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WFP Tanzania | Brief Reporting period: 01 October – 31 December 2014
COUNTRY STRATEGY Priorities for 2011-2015 Emergency Humanitarian Action —for refugees and people who are unable to meet their basic food and nutrition needs due to disasters. Food Security and...
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Operational Plan 2011-2016 DFID Tanzania Updated December 2014
Context Tanzania has made impressive development gains since the transition from state run socialism to a market economy in the 1980s and 1990s. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rates averaged 7%...
Peace Corps Volunteers Improve Nutrition in Tanzanian Community by Teaching Proper Chicken Care
Peace Corps volunteers Luke and Samantha Temple of Durango, Colorado, are generating local income and boosting nutrition rates in their Tanzanian community by teaching proper chicken care techniques...
Improved Seed Sows Security and Profits for Tanzanian Rice Farmers
Better growing methods and seeds raise incomes Dec. 2014—Tanzanian smallholder rice farmers often use seeds saved from past seasons to plant their fields. Since these indigenous seeds are typically...
Zanzibar plans relocation of coastal families
MARUHUBI, Zanzibar (Thomson Reuters Foundation) –Zanzibar has begun relocating coastal families on the island of Pemba who are facing inundation from worsening high tides. Read the full article here
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DFID and Irish Aid joint country programme evaluation: Tanzania (December 2010)
Executive Summary Introduction S1 The Tanzania Joint Country Programme Evaluation (CPE) examined the performance of the development assistance to Tanzania provided by the United Kingdom (UK) and...
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UNHCR Global Appeal 2015 Update - Tanzania
Overview Working environment UNHCR will work with the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania (Tanzania) and partners to safeguard the rights and entitlements of refugees and other people of...
Tanzania Remote Monitoring Update, November 2014
Low farmgate prices resulting in low income for poor households KEY MESSAGES Staple prices are unseasonably low at this time, allowing food access to some poor households, but limiting income for...
Tanzania: Flash Floods DREF Final Report operation n° MDRTZ015
A. Situation analysis Description of the disaster Heavy rains caused flash floods in Morogoro region, located approximately 270 kilometres West of Dar es Salaam, between 22 and 23 January, 2014. The...
Emerging Tanzanian Leaders Address Food Security Challenges
Kadeghe Fue is a young faculty member at Tanzania’s Sokoine University of Agriculture. While he himself was a student not so long ago – earning his Master of Science degree in agricultural and...
UK and international donors suspend Tanzania aid after corruption claims
UK and international donors suspend Tanzania aid after corruption claims International donors have suspended nearly $500m (£311m) in budget support to Tanzania in response to claims that senior...
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Migration Dialogue: From the Horn to South Africa
Tanzania - IOM Tanzania this week convened a three-day “Migration Dialogue” conference to respond to the ever-evolving and complex dynamics of migration flows from the Horn of Africa, through Kenya...
GIEWS Country Brief: United Republic of Tanzania 04-November-2014
FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT Planting of 2014/15 “vuli” season crops is underway in bi-modal rainfall areas Significant reduction in maize planted area is expected in response to frequent poor weather in...
UNDP Supports Community to Address Salination Problem in Ndagoni Village, Pemba Island
Ndagoni village in Pemba Island is among 120 areas adversely affected by climate change in Zanzibar. In recent years, the village experienced increased intrusion of sea water inland thereby...
Farmers in Tanzania Develop Technologies to Reduce Labor and Increase Productivity
In Tanzania, as in many other developing countries, women tend to perform agriculture’s most time- and labor-intensive activities. Yet unfavorable regulations and sociocultural norms limit women’s...
Tanzania Price Bulletin, October 2014
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Tanzania: Flash Floods DREF operation n° MDRTZ015 Operations update n° 2
A. Situation analysis Description of the disaster Heavy rains caused flash floods in Morogoro region, located approximately 270 kilometres West of Dar es Salaam, between 22 and 23 January, 2014. The...
Tanzania Remote Monitoring Update, October 2014
In northeastern lowlands, half or less of normal maize harvest expected KEY MESSAGES In the northeastern, bimodal lowlands, low maize production has weakened agricultural labor demand. Poor...