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Previous biogeographical studies on forest avifaunal compositions of mountains in the Eastern Arc archipelago have focused primarily on patterns of species richness and the effects of montane area and isolation. This preliminary investigation examines species composition in terms of nestedness patterns for 12 mountain...
The household data is further analysed in terms of five households types: pure cultivators, cultivator-collectors, cultivator-craftsmen, mixed-farmer-collectors and mixed farmers. Comparative advantage or risk cannot explain entry into cattle rearing but comparitive advantage does explain entry into low return off-far...
The Southern Highlands of Tanzania offer favourable climatic conditions, which permit the production of a wide range of crops, making this zone one of the most reliable in terms of food and cash crop production. However, this environment also favours the survival of numerous pests and pathogens which reduce the quanti...
Tanzania has been a relative success story in Africa in terms of political reform. While
The Government of Tanzania has continued to make significant progress in terms of macroeconomic indicators: annual GDP growth rates are over 5%, inflation is down to a single digit, and international reserves have been rising for a number of consecutive years.
Agroforestry principles are especially of value in enhancing the agrosystem’s buffer capacity hence in conserving its biophysical capita. While its capacity to increase crop productivity is limited on its own terms it may prove the efficiency of the use of costly (imported) inorganic fertilizers. A distinction is made...
Community participation, ownership and cost sharing are key components of Tanzania’s water policy, in common with the broad international consensus on water governance. However these policy goals are difficult to achieve, beset with paradoxes and the benefits of them (both in terms of efficiency and equity) may be ove...
Community/stakeholder participation, ownership and cost sharing/recovery are key components of Tanzania’s water policy. However these are not easy to achieve and the benefits of them (both in terms of efficiency and equity) may be overstated.