The Section of International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance at the Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences at the University of Kassel, Germany together with the University of Dar Es Salaam, College of Social Sciences, develop research on land use change on the Southern slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. The project is part of a...Read More

As part of the Academic Staff Lecture Series, Dr. Theofrida Maginga and Ms. Mary Marcel will present their lectures on 19th February 2025, from 14:00 Hrs at ICE-SUA, Morogoro. Staff, Students and the General Public are All InvitedRead More

Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly warming our planet, with potentially severe economic, social, and health consequences. Conventional estimates of climate damages suggest that while coordinated global efforts are desirable, unilateral action is rarely cost-effective due to a classic free-rider problem. Why should a country bear the costs of reducing emissions when the benefits are...Read More

Toco believes its novel monetary system is a solution for the climate crisis that doesn’t compromise economic growth, but sceptics question whether a lack of oversight will undermine its impact. Imagine if you could save the planet every time you spend money. A Swiss-South African start-up has launched Toco, a digital currency which is backed...Read More

Cocoa crisis: Climate change threat to chocolate laid bare in new report ahead of Valentine’s Day Cocoa prices have risen 400% in recent years as study shows climate change made 2023 heatwave in West Africa 10 times more likely. British chocolatiers feeling the heat: “It’s a nightmare, I don’t think any business involved in chocolate...Read More

Go to any informal settlement in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, or to the outskirts of a city along its coast, such as Khulna, and it doesn’t take long to find communities that have relocated or been displaced. Their homes may have been destroyed —often repeatedly—by a sudden onset natural hazard such as a cyclone; or their...Read More

There are ways to reduce the climate impact of what we eat – but companies and governments have been slow to back them. One of the most striking, and widely shared, images of the recent catastrophic California fires was of a McDonald’s restaurant in Pasadena engulfed in flames. A symbol of the American Dream going...Read More

[Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida holds a PhD summa cum laude in International and European Law at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is a Professor of International Law at FGV Rio Law and Director of FGV Rio Law’s Centre for Global Law and the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on EU-LA Global Challenges. Valentine Tissot Pinheiro holds an LL.M. in...Read More

The government should harmonize electricity tariffs to achieve the targets outlined in the National Energy Compact (NEC) endorsed at the 2025 Africa Energy Summit held recently in Dar es Salaam. The Compact aims to make electricity the primary energy source for cooking in Tanzania. Fadhila Trisekwa, Senior Manager for Tax Services at PwC, emphasized that to...Read More

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) invites proposals for the Graduate Researchers Award to foster innovative research and discovery in biodiversity informatics. GBIF will present awards of €5 thousand each to one master’s student and one doctoral student. Students must apply through and be nominated by a Head of Delegation of a GBIF participant country....Read More