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106.	Accelarating Africa's Agricultural Plan
	Wednesday, March 01, 2006  by Admin
	All Africa - Most African Governments agree that agriculture must lead to economic development, even though they do not have the know-how to let this happen.
107.	Animal Traction Development in Iringa Region, Tanzania: project approaches and future requirements
	Tuesday, February 28, 2006  by Admin
	Animal traction is not well developed in Iringa Region although there is limited spread of technology through natural diffusion. Animal traction has potential to increase food security in the region and should therefore be promoted. As income from cash crops is generally low, privatised self-supporting training programmes will not be viable and hence government or donor intervention is still necessary.
108.	Coffee Farmers now go Organic
	Wednesday, February 22, 2006  by Admin
	Coffee farmers in Kilimanjaro region have turned to growing organic coffee for export under a project by Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative union. Other than fetching higher prices than the traditional coffee, its demand has increased among abroad consumers who are now demanding food produced without application of chemicals.
109.	Challenges of legislating for water utilisation in rural Tanzania
	Tuesday, February 21, 2006  by Admin
	This paper was presented at during the International workshop on "African Water Laws: Plural Legislative Frameworks for Rural Water Management in Africa" which took place in Johannesburg in 2005. This workshop came at a time when Tanzania was drafting new laws to go in hand with the implementation of the National Water Policy (NAWAPO).
110.	Tired of low coffee prices, farmers turn to vanilla
	Monday, February 20, 2006  by Admin
	Tired of low coffee prices, farmers turn to vanilla - Farmers in Kagera Region have resolved to cultivate vanilla instead of coffee as cash crop, owing to uninviting prices. An investigation carried out recently has confirmed that over 6,000 farmers are involved in planting the new crop because a kilogramme of ripe vanilla is fetching Tsh. 15,000. Vanilla is a tropical plant that produces substances used as a flavour in sweet foods.
111.	Micro-Irrigation Technologies
	Sunday, February 19, 2006  by Admin
	Micro-Irrigation Technologies Rural Kenyans can no longer rely purely on subsistence farming. They need hard cash to buy enough food and to pay for school fees and healthcare. Yet most live on farms less than two acres in size. Many thousands of entrepreneurial farmers are now irrigating with KickStart's manual MoneyMaker irrigation pumps and changing their small subsistence farms into vibrant new commercial enterprises.
112.	Tanzania-The status of Tanzanian honey Trade- Domestic and International Markets
	Wednesday, February 15, 2006  by Admin
	Beekeeping in Tanzania plays a major role in socio-economic development and environmental conservation. It is a source of food (e.g. honey, pollen and brood), raw materials for various industries (e.g. beeswax candles, lubricants), medicine (honey, propolis, beeswax bee venom) and source of income for beekeepers. It is estimated that the sector generates about US$ 1.7 million each year from sales of honey and beeswax and employ about 2 million rural people.
113.	The Poor Relation. A political economy of the marketing chain for dagaa in Tanzania
	Wednesday, February 15, 2006  by Admin
	Dagaa is the collective name in Tanzania for various types of sardine-like fish eaten in a dried form by poor and middle-income groups throughout eastern and southern Africa. This paper is a fieldwork-based case-study of the 'commodity chain' for dagaa. That is, it is a study of how dagaa is produced, marketed, distributed and consumed, of which groups are involved in each of these stages, how they are organised and how they inter-relate with each other.
114.	Malaria herb now turns top cash crop
	Wednesday, February 15, 2006  by Admin
	Tanzania is increasingly emerging as a major source of artemesinin,a key ingredient in the new generation of anti-malarias,which the World Health Organization (WHO) says are the key to fighting the killer fever. The new, and highly effective, dual therapy is based on an ancient Chinese herbal remedy. It is now known as Artemesinin Combination Therapies (ACTs), currently the most effective treatment against malaria.
115.	The birdlife partnership “water sustaining life, sustaining livelihoods�
	Wednesday, February 15, 2006  by Admin
	Freshwater ecosystems occupy less than 1% of the earth's surface, but they deliver goods and services of enormous global value - a recent report concluded that the annual global value of wetlands could be some US$70 billion (WWF, 2004). This vital resource is becoming scarce not only because of increased demand, but also due to greater pollution and habitat degradation.
116.	The birdlife partnership “water sustaining life, sustaining livelihoods�
	Wednesday, February 15, 2006  by Admin
	Freshwater ecosystems occupy less than 1% of the earth's surface, but they deliver goods and services of enormous global value - a recent report concluded that the annual global value of wetlands could be some US$70 billion (WWF, 2004). This vital resource is becoming scarce not only because of increased demand, but also due to greater pollution and habitat degradation.
117.	Why agriculture still matters
	Wednesday, February 15, 2006  by Admin
	Why agriculture still matters - often depends on conditions outside policy-makers' reach. The weather, world prices (depending on how much the world demands of agricultural products and how much the rest of the world produces), external trade barriers and market access all play a role in determining agricultural outcomes. As a result, the agricultural sector is arguably more vulnerable and more dependent on a fair globalization 1 than any other sector.
118.	Agricultural Marketing and Supply Chain Management in Tanzania
	Tuesday, January 31, 2006  by Admin
	This study describes the current marketing arrangements in Tanzania, using Dar es Salaam, Ifakara and Mtwara as case studies. Impediments captured in this study include physical infrastructure, knowledge and capital and institutional framework. The Government has made changes in its policy to open markets and to facilitate free trade in the country. Changes at the top must be complemented with supporting policies at lower levels of administration to ensure trade liberalisation serves as a welfare increasing policy instrument.
119.	A methodological guide on how to identify trends and linkages between changes in land use, biodiversity and land degradation
	Thursday, January 19, 2006  by Admin
	Land quality in the man-modified agricultural landscapes of eastern Africa has been shown to degrade over time, resulting in higher demands for farm inputs in order to sustain productivity. It has therefore become important to know how land use change contributes to land degradation and how land use change leads to biodiversity loss. This paper from the collaborative Land Use Change, Impacts and Dynamics (LUCID) project describes a framework for the analysis between land use change, biodiversity loss and land degradation for the first time.
120.	TIRDO sensitizes tea farmers on quality improvement
	Tuesday, January 17, 2006  by Admin
	TIRDO sensitizes tea farmers on quality improvement-Four experts from the Tanzania Industrial Research and Development Organization and from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS) have for the past two weeks been educating farmers and processors of tea and coffee in Iringa, Mbeya and Ruvuma regions on traceability requirements as a precondition to penetrate the European, Asian and the United States markets.
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