TANZANIA: Weather Changes Turn Farming into Gamble with Nature
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Denis Gathanju
DAR-ES-SALAAM, Mar 10 (IPS) – Changes in weather patterns have turned agriculture into a gamble with nature for Tanzanian farmers. Prolonged droughts and floods have made the lives of small-scale farmers, who don’t have access to irrigation, extremely difficult.
In Tanzania, where the economy is largely driven [...]
ENERGY-TANZANIA: Charcoal A Dirty Trade-Off
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Jessie Boylan
DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 19 (IPS) – The sun is setting slowly over Dar es Salaam’s Tabata Changombe neighbourhood. Ameenah and Skukulu Juma lean against the corrugated iron walls of their makeshift charcoal shop.
The earth is black. Charcoal layers every surface and crevice. Shawls over their [...]
AFRICA: ‘Have Your Own Policies, as Long as They’re Like Ours’
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Marina Penderis
JOHANNESBURG, Sep 9 (IPS) – The controversial conditionalities attached to World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans over the past 20 years may, from the World Bank’s point of view, no longer be necessary as African countries are of their own accord imposing similar policy restrictions [...]
