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Tanzania

Women Farmers in Tanzania

Women provide more than half the labor on farms in sub-Saharan Africa, but many lack access to land, capital and farm inputs. Empowering them is seen as an urgent economic development priority.

Tanzania: Droughts in Engaruka Cause Hunger

In Tanzania's drought-prone villages like Engaruka, residents who've suffered hunger are now left with few possessions and little livestock with which to shield themselves from future drought.

Tanzania's War on Weevils

Tanzania’s struggle against bean-eating weevils is just one chapter in the story of the tension between farmers and the ever-evolving pests that attack crops in the field and after harvest.