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Tanzania: Warming seas frustrate Zanzibar's seaweed farmers
2013-02-15 01:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: Rising sea temperatures and more extreme weather are damaging Zanzibar's formerly thriving seaweed farms, maritime experts say, reducing harvests and putting farmers out of work. Commercially valuable seaweed was brought to Zanzibar from the Philippines in the 1980s, and early producers found it grew well in the shallow waters off this Indian Ocean island. Some types of seaweed, used in the food and pharmaceutical industries as a stabilizer or emulsifying agent, are in great demand abroad,...
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Torrential rain, lack of preparedness batter Tanzania
2013-02-11 02:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: When the heavy rainfall came last month, floodwaters poured into Magdalena Lweno's house and washed away her hard-won belongings: her mattresses, couches, television set, clothing and her daughter's school books. Worst of all, it took the cooking utensils the mother of three uses to run her business as a food vendor, leaving her without an income. "I can't work right now because my working tools have been swept away,' the 39-year-old resident of low-lying Jangwani suburb complained, from the...
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Tanzania: Climate Change Takes a Toll At Pangani River Basin
2013-01-29 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tanzania Daily News: FOR Joanita Kilimba of Langoni village of Pangani District, the day starts at 2.00 am. That is the time when she must wake up, walk about 100 metres to a small shallow well and fetch water that the family will use for the rest of the day. However, sometimes she oversleeps and wakes up at 3.00 am or 4.00 am. Then the cost of sleeping would be reflected by the family's failure to wash in the morning or miss their lunch because there would be no water. "We have a big shortage of water here especially...
Tanzania: Irrigation Crucial for Agriculture Production
2013-01-28 06:28:47| Sugar Industry News
THE Minister for Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperative, Eng. Christopher Chiza has reiterated the need for promotion of irrigation schemes in the Lake Zone regions, to be able to yield more food in the absence of enough rainfall.
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Tanzania: Maasai herders breed fewer, stronger cattle to tackle climate change
2013-01-25 01:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: The loss of more than half their livestock in the 2009 drought has led Maasai pastoralists in northern Tanzania's Arusha region to breed fewer, stronger cattle and end their traditional focus on numbers alone as symbols of wealth and status. The impact of that devastating drought, which dealt a blow to the whole nation's economy, is still visible in the small number of cattle in many villages of Engarenaibor in Arusha's Longido district. The district's cattle breeders and owners lost at least...
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