Climate Change e-library: A-Z
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In recent years, Tanzania has witnessed a number of climate related disasters namely, flooding, droughts, widespread crop failures, livestock deaths and intensification of climate sensitive diseases among others. Regular climate discussions in the count ...
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One of the biggest challenges of the 21st century is climate change. The accumulation of green house gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) from different sources in the atmospheres promotes global warming (IPCC, 2007). The major source of green house gases i ...
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Human induced climate change is likely to have severe consequences for Africa and a great deal of political att ention and discussion is focusing on what the countries of Africa need in order to adapt. Within these debates important questions surround ...
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IUCN, IISD, SEI-B and Intercooperation have developed a tool to enable project planners and managers to assess and enhance a project’s impact on community-level adaptive capacity. Specifically, the tool has been structured to: 1) Set the climate context: ...
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Climate volatility could change in the future, with important implications for agricultural productivity. For Tanzania, where food production and prices are sensitive to climate, changes in climate volatility could have severe implications for poverty. ...
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Pilot initiatives to introduce more sustainable farming practices are many in Africa; thorough documentation of results and lessons learned is scarce. Yet signs indicate that understanding is growing among practising farmers, stakeholders, researchers, ...
Case studies in three Tanzanian Districts: Arumeru District, Karatu District, Mbeya District
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Tanzania is richly endowed with natural resources and a large majority of the population derive their livelihoods from agriculture, including livestock and fisheries. Together with higher agricultural productivity and development of agricultural value cha ...
After briefly explaining what climate change is and its impact on agriculture, the main focus of the discussion is on presenting the voices of small scale farmers in Tanzania indicating what they perceive to be the impact of climate change on agricultural ...
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The overall objective of this study is to assess the effects of climate change on small scale farmer in Tanzania in the past decade and recommend adaptation measures and policies to cope with climate change now and in the future. Specifically, this proj ...
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Tanzania is already experiencing adverse impacts of climate change. Current climate variability and change resulting in extreme weather events already lead to major economic costs in Tanzania. Every annual event has economic costs in excess of 1% of GDP ...
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Tanzania National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) preparation has been a timely opportunity to look at the country’s climate change related vulnerabilities in various sectors which are important for the economy. Tanzania NAPA document is informed ...
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This Strategy has been developed in response to the growing concern of the negative impacts of climate change and climate variability on the country’s social, economic and physical environment. Its overall aim is to enhance the technical, institutional ...
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This policy analysis in relation to climate change adaptation, mitigation, agriculture and Reduced Emission in Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) has been conducted within the framework of the project "climate change, agriculture and poverty alle ...
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Climate change is a global challenge that does not respect national borders. It is affecting every country on every continent by disrupting livelihoods and national economies. The poorest and most vulnerable people are being affected the most. It is an is ...
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Presented in the Workshop on Forests, Rangelands and Climate Change Adaptation in Southern Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa 17 – 19 June 2013 Prepared by Constantine M. Shayo Vice President’s Office Dar es Salaam TANZANIA
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The development partners group, with funding from the UK (DFID), have sponsored this initial study on the ‘Economics of Climate Change in the United Republic of Tanzania’. The work is led by the Global Climate Adaptation Partnership, together with the S ...
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This study aimed at finding the impact of climate change on the livelihoods of agro - pastoralists in Arumeru district. The study used questionnaires, structured interview and focus group discussion as data collecting tools. The sample included 130 respon ...
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This series is based on work funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) through the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA). CARIAA ...