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Tanzania: New Resistant Coffee Varieties Developed with EU Support

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Voices & Views

As soon as the seedlings are ready for planting, women in brightly coloured clothes wrapped at the waist load the new disease resistant varieties of coffee seedlings into the back of a truck. Developed at the Tanzania Coffee...

Africa
Tanzania
Agriculture & Rural Development
Capacity Development
Fisheries
+2
Knowledge Management
Learning

The Land-Drugs Nexus

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Voices & Views

"For many communities in Myanmar who grow opium, for them opium is not the problem, it is the solution to their problems," said local project consultant, Tom Kramer, from the Transnational Institute. And therein lies one of the...

Asia
Afghanistan
Myanmar
Agriculture & Rural Development
Fisheries

Ecosystems Approach to Make Agriculture More Efficient, More Sustainable, and to Create More Intelligent Markets

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Voices & Views

“The future of food security on the current trajectory is a road to nowhere, and to repeat the statistics that we need to grow 50-70% more food without answering the questions, on what land, with which water and with what kind of...

Africa
Kenya
Uganda
+1
Tanzania
Agriculture & Rural Development
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Climate change & disaster risks
+3
Environment & green economy
Fisheries
Forests

Eco-village Project Empowers Villagers to Deal with Climate Change

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Voices & Views

Climate change is a devastating reality in Tanzania where higher temperatures are resulting in regular droughts and the rapid melting of the snowy peak of Mount Kilimanjaro. Difficult lives are getting even tougher, so the...

Africa
Tanzania
Agriculture & Rural Development
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Climate change & disaster risks
+3
Environment & green economy
Fisheries
Forests