Shifting Baselines : Zanzibar's Missing Fish

Jennifer Jacquet, Ph.D. student with the Sea Around Us project at the UBC Fisheries reports that Tanzania used to be two countries. Now, Tanzania still has two sets of fisheries data and two options for reporting their fish catch: report it all (accurate) or report only half (inaccurate). Currently, only the mainland reports their fish internationally; Zanzibar's fish are missing from the statistics. http://scienceblogs.com/shiftingbas...

Experts Say Government's Project a Threat to Flamingos

The Tanzanian government has been asked to reconsider a proposed soda ash mining project in Lake Natron. http://allafrica.com/stories/200710 ...

Tanzania: Academics Criticize Government Over High-profile Graft

Mon. October 15, 2007 04:40 pm.- By Bonny Apunyu. -- (SomaliNet) In the latest case of corruption, Academics yesterday criticized the government over high-profile graft, excessive donor dependency and ... http://somalinet.com/news/world/Eng ...

Julius Nyerere: Statesman, Thinker, Humanist

Julius Kambarage Nyerere is a leader of the type of Mahatma Gandhi, Sun Yatsen, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Kwame Nkrumah, and Leopold Sedar Senghor, who have earned their place in the history of mankind. Even ... http://www.ippmedia.com/ipp/guardia ...

Expert Tells How Dar Could Attract More Investors

Tanzania is likely to attract more foreign investors and secure more aid if it takes painstaking efforts to improve infrastructure and adhere to rigorous expenditure of public finances.The Managing Director ... http://www.ippmedia.com/ipp/guardia ...

Metty Reviews Surrogates of the State

Metty'z RefleXions - Tanzania in Focus: Book Review: Surrogates of the State
Metty reviews a new book, Surrogates of The state: NGO's, Development and Ujamaa in Tanzania. Ujamaa was the concept that formed the basis for Julius Nyerere's social and economic policy following independence from Britain. Nyerere served as Tanzania's first president from 1964 to 1985. Nevertheless, several factors in the 1970's caused the collapse of Nyerere's Ujamaa approach and this book examines how NGO's might have contributed to the failure of Nyerere's concept of the "extended family", which for him meant that every individual was in the service of the community.

Tanzania Coffee Growers Acquire Techology to Improve Harvest and Increase Income

PT's Coffee Co. reports in its blog from the Let's Talk Coffee conference that Sustainable Harvest Coffee Importers is introducing technologies to the Kanyovu growers’ cooperative in the Gombe region of eastern Tanzania to improve harvests, increase income and save the environment. Read more > Let's Talk Coffee ... Tanzania

Tanzania: Dar Plans Power From Sisal Waste

Peak Oil News and Message Boards is a community and collaboration portal about energy-related topics. It reports that a pilot project is underway in Tanzania to produce electricity from sisal waste. >>> read more