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Protecting Tanzanias Farmers from Weather Extremes
2013-11-14 10:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: When Habiba Msoga from Kiroka village, in Tanzania's Morogoro Region, first began applying a method of rice cultivation that was different from what her fellow farmers traditionally used, they laughed at her. But now three years later, as she falls asleep each night in her newly built brick home that will soon have electricity, she could not be happier. "When I started some people were laughing at me because they thought it was impossible to grow rice without flooding the field. But I have...
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