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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Candidate Representation and Media Biases in Tanzania / Representación de los candidatos electorales y prejuicios mediáticos en Tanzania

open access: yesIndex Comunicación, 2013
The promises of democracy in Tanzania underscore a wide range hopes for the nation, notably with regard to media freedom and freedom of speech. However,  the intensifying privatization of the media that has characterized the last two decades of Tanzania ...
Kaanaeli Bariki Kaale   +1 more
doaj  

Competition in Mobile Financial Services: Lessons from Kenya and Tanzania

open access: yesThe African Journal of Information and Communication, 2016
Mobile financial services (MFS) are the main drivers of financial inclusion in many developing countries, where they provide low-income consumers with access to transfers, payments, and increasingly more complex products including credit, savings ...
Rafe Mazer, Philip Rowan
doaj   +1 more source

STEM starts early: Views and beliefs of early childhood education stakeholders in Tanzania

open access: yesJournal of Childhood, Education & Society, 2020
For about a decade, Tanzania has intensely focused on developing literacy and numeracy skills in pre-primary and early grades programs. Recently, the attention has shifted towards the significance of teaching Science, Mathematics, Technology and Science (
Laurent Gabriel Ndijuye   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

How cold is too cold? A theoretical analysis of the optimal trigger for index insurance for frost damage to crops

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Opportunities and Challenges for Implementation of Harmonized Competence-Based Curricula in Medicine and Nursing Programmes in Tanzania: Experiences of Biomedical Sciences’ Stakeholders

open access: yesAdvances in Medical Education and Practice, 2023
Nathanael Sirili,1 Doreen Mloka,2 Lilian Mselle,3 Rodrick Kisenge,4 Erasto Mbugi,5 Dennis Russa,6 Obadia Nyongole,7 Stephen E Mshana,8 Rose Laisser,9 Kien Mteta,10 Levina Msuya,11 Eligius Lyamuya,12 Judith Martin-Holland,13 Gideon Kwesigabo,14 Ephata ...
Sirili N   +14 more
doaj  

Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tanzania HIV/AIDS Indicator Survey 2003-04 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The Tanzania Commission for AIDS (TACAIDS) authorised the National Bureau of Statistics\ud (NBS) to conduct the THIS. The THIS is the first household survey of its kind to be conducted in Tanzania.\ud The survey covered the Tanzania Mainland only.The ...
National Bureau of Statistics Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, (NBS)   +2 more
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Evaluating the African arid corridor hypothesis: A meta‐analysis including the phylogenetic and biogeographical history of Sesamothamnus

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise We examined the African arid corridor (AAC) disjunction pattern of vascular plants between northeastern and southwestern Africa in the context of geological and climatic events since the late Miocene. We developed a phylogenetic and biogeographical framework for the arid‐adapted genus Sesamothamnus (Pedaliaceae), a classic example of ...
John G. Zaborsky   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fiscal Reforms and Deficits in Tanzania: An Exploratory Review

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Vasile Goldis Arad, Seria Stiinte Economice, 2020
This study provides an exploratory review of the trends, policy reforms, and determinants of fiscal deficits in Tanzania during the period 1980-2017.
Mawejje Joseph, Odhiambo Nicholas M.
doaj   +1 more source

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