Arusha district council is among the two councils that forms Arumeru.Administratively is divided into 3 divisions, 20 wards, 75 Villages, 294 Hamlets and 64,339 Households . Occupies an area of 1,547.6 square kilometers. According to 2002 population and h ...
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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, ...
The ECO-ACT project (Ecovillage Adaptation to Climate Change in Central Tanzania) is supported by the European Union’s Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA), via the Ministry of Finance EDF Office. The project aims at increasing the capacity of vulnerab ...
The project, funded by European Union and launched in partnership with Arusha District Council, Meru District Council and Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), aims at increasing capacity of local communities to adapt to ...
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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 ...
The Igunga Eco-village project aims to increase the resilience of 9 local farmer communities.They are strongly affected by the adverse effects of climate change. Through a FarmerField School approach farmer groups are trained in a wide range of proven cli ...
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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 ...
Vision Together we change the world. Through shared challenges we create opportunity.Our communities have transformed how we live and work. We are all leaders. We all innovate.We work in harmony with the natural world. It's not just our responsibility, ...
Supporting Communities in the East Usambara Mountain to Adapt to Climate Change
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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 ...
Background Information Meru district council is among the two councils that form Arumeru district. Administrative is divided into 3 divisions, 17 wards, 69 villages, 275 hamlets and 48,768 households. The district has a total population of 225,611 people ...
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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 ...
About NM-AIST The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) in Arusha is one in a network of Pan-African Institutions of Science and Technology located across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). These institutions, which are the proud ...
OEA vision is a future where local communities and authorities work together to promote a fair socio-economic development based on the sustainable use of natural resources. OEA mission is to work with high ethical and scientific standards to promote ...