Journalists Form Collaborative International Networks to Better Report World News
Collaborating with local journalists in Tanzania sheds new light on critical topics.
Collaborating with local journalists in Tanzania sheds new light on critical topics.
Tanzania is caught in the middle of an intense global debate over GM technology.
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.
Not everyone, after all, is on the phone in Tanzania.
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.
As Tanzania's savanna landscape evolves over time, unexpected consequences ripple through the food chain.
Zanzibar's female farmers drive food production but suffer a lack of access to modern farming tools.
Scientists say they can help farmers in Tanzania, but anti-GM regulations tie their hands.
To understand food security in sub-Saharan Africa, context is crucial. Some 500 million small farms feed 80 percent of the people who live in regions that are perilously close to hunger.
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.
Women in sub-Saharan Africa provide more than half the farm labor yet are five times less likely than men to own land.
Many African women still struggle for rights — for the right to go to school, to marry when and whom they choose, to own farmland and livestock.