Butterfly farmers call upon govt to lift exportation ban
Conservationists and Butterfly farmers are worried that achievements of a three-year project will be reversed.
Environment managers in the making
Pupils in six primary schools are involved in conserving the environment in high biodiversity forests of the Eastern Arc Mountains
Firewood demand in sharp drop in project villages
Energy saving stoves that where introduced in Mzungui Village in Muheza district to save the forest from deforestation has proved beneficial to a great deal, thanks to thew three year climate change adaptation project.
The school without a female teacher
Deep in the East Usambaras, at a mountain edge that overlooks Korogwe, a rural primary school is pondering over a challenge that might affect attendance of girls school.
How farmers can boost milk yield, adapt to climate change
A climate change adaptation project has teamed up with other stakeholders to merge the needs of increased milk production and incomes and climate change adaptation in the East Usambaras.
Villagers use new ways as climate change bites
After experiencing the vanishing of vegetation, drying up of rivers and soil errosion which threatened their livelihood, villagers in Usambara East are now turning to environment-friendly farming techniques to offset climate change impacts.
New tech saves trees
The decrease in the collection of firewood from about four loads a week to one load a week since the adoption of the new technology has helped to conserve forests.
Improving access to water in the Saseni rivers sub-basin (Tanzania)
In the sub-basin of the Saseni river, in northern Tanzania, two out of three families live with less than a dollar a day. The precarious conditions of access to water in the area reduce the productive time of their homes, limit children’s, especially girls, school assistance and provoke high rates of water transmitted diseases; all …
Clean water: cooperation + research in Manhiça (Mozambique)
We begin a new Project in Maluana, one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Maniça, in southern Mozambique. Barely half of the population has Access to water and less than 20% to appropriate sanitation. Diseases related to the lack of water and sanitation, such as diarrhea, are one of the primary health problems in the neighbourhood, …
Adapting to climate change is urgent in Muheza (Tanzania)
The rise in temperatures and the evermore uncertain rainfall threaten the livelihood components of the 2,500 families living in the area. To them, adapting to climate change is not a future outcome but an emergency of the present.
