The Tanzania Railway Corporation (TRC) recently initiated the first official trial of the nation’s inaugural electric train, running from Dar es Salaam to Morogoro. During the launch, Mobhare Matinyi, the Chief Government Spokesperson and Director of Information Service at the Ministry of Information, Communication, and Information Technology, expressed the government’s ambition to extend the Standard Gauge Railway […]
Dar es Salaam; Tarehe 22, Februari 2024. Mamlaka ya Hali ya Hewa Tanzania (TMA) imetoa rasmi utabiri wa msimu wa mvua za Masika 2024 kwa maeneo yanayopata mvua mara mbili kwa mwaka. Akizungumza wakati wa mkutano na vyombo vya habari katika ukumbi wa Ubungo Plaza, tarehe 22/02/2024, Kaimu Mkurugenzi Mkuu wa TMA na Makamu Mwenyekiti […]
On World Soil Day, experts and civil society representatives at the UN Climate Summit urged world leaders to recognize the role of healthy soils in achieving the Paris Agreement, calling for these long overlooked ecosystems to feature in COP28 declarations and in plans for more sustainable food systems. Representatives from the scientific, finance, policy, corporate and […]
The College of Forestry, Wildlife and Tourism of the Sokoine University of Agriculture, in collaboration with Tanzania Forestry Research Institute (TAFORI) and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, hereby invites interested and qualified citizens of Tanzania (holding Master’s degree or equivalent) to submit applications for 2 PhD scholarshipsunder the Danida financed project “Climate, pollinator biodiversity, crop […]
One of the most invasive Australian weeds is being touted as a potential economic crop, with benefits for the construction, mining and forestry industries, and potentially many First Nations communities. The prickly paddy melon weed, which costs the agricultural industry around $100 million a year in lost grain yields, cattle deaths, and control measures, could turn into an […]
On 8 August 2023, twenty-six restoration practitioners and stakeholders set off from Oloitokitok – a small town on the green slopes of Kenya’s Mount Kilimanjaro – to Mbirikani Group Ranch in Kajiado County. There, the Centre for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) and Big Life Foundation were holding a field visit as part […]
Twenty percent of global land area is degraded to some extent. In Africa, it is estimated that two-thirds of productive land is degraded, impacting hundreds of millions of people’s ability to produce food and making them more vulnerable than ever to our rapidly changing climate. Healthy land resources, including soil, water and biodiversity, provide services such as food, fuel, fibre, clean water, […]
Gardening, hunting, fishing, foraging and maintaining backyard poultry and livestock increased in rural New England during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. A new study found that these activities, collectively known as home and wild food production, reduced hunger among households during that period. Researchers from the University of Vermont and University of Maine […]
The Northern Forest Region, encompassing 26 million acres across Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and northern New York, faces significant transformations due to the impacts of climate change, invasive insects, and other emerging threats. Safeguarding these forests, which are essential ecologically, economically, and culturally, demands innovative approaches and deeper insights. To address these challenges, the University […]
In voluntary carbon markets, buyers (like big companies with emissions) voluntarily purchase and trade in offsets generated from emissions reduction or removal projects elsewhere. And in early 2023 momentum was building for them, but that soon collapsed as evidence of greenwashing grew: forestry programs were significantly overestimating their value. Allegra Dawes at CSIS lays out […]