Bringing the world to Tanzania to Celebrate 50 years of Forestry Training across Eastern and Southen Africa Region in the areas of Ecosystem and Conservation Forest Resource Assessment and management Forest engineering and wood sciences Forest and Environmental Economics with out forgetting the importance of Wildlife management together with Tourism and Recreation
Sokoine University of Agriculture, SUA has for years thrived in provision of quality education to its students at all levels from Diploma, Undergraduate and Postgraduate and contributing largely to Tanzania, Africa and the Global development through its greater capacity in research activities but also competent knowledge delivery accompanied with field activities in the field of […]
After her father died, Jeimila Donty took over her family’s coral export business and shifted its focus to conservation, creating Koraï. Donty is part of a young “pro-climate” generation that’s keen to incorporate the environment into business models. Koraï plants corals in Madagascan waters on behalf of other companies as part of their corporate social […]
As global food production expands to keep pace with a growing population, industrial nitrogen for fertilizer increasingly contributes to both greenhouse gas emissions and pollution of aquatic ecosystems. Agroecology can help tackle both problems by improving soil health while reducing the use of synthetic fertilizers and the emissions they produce, according to experts at the Agroecology […]
The Tanzania Railway Corporation (TRC) recently initiated the first official trial of the nation’s inaugural electric train, running from Dar es Salaam to Morogoro. During the launch, Mobhare Matinyi, the Chief Government Spokesperson and Director of Information Service at the Ministry of Information, Communication, and Information Technology, expressed the government’s ambition to extend the Standard Gauge Railway […]
Dar es Salaam; Tarehe 22, Februari 2024. Mamlaka ya Hali ya Hewa Tanzania (TMA) imetoa rasmi utabiri wa msimu wa mvua za Masika 2024 kwa maeneo yanayopata mvua mara mbili kwa mwaka. Akizungumza wakati wa mkutano na vyombo vya habari katika ukumbi wa Ubungo Plaza, tarehe 22/02/2024, Kaimu Mkurugenzi Mkuu wa TMA na Makamu Mwenyekiti […]
On World Soil Day, experts and civil society representatives at the UN Climate Summit urged world leaders to recognize the role of healthy soils in achieving the Paris Agreement, calling for these long overlooked ecosystems to feature in COP28 declarations and in plans for more sustainable food systems. Representatives from the scientific, finance, policy, corporate and […]
The College of Forestry, Wildlife and Tourism of the Sokoine University of Agriculture, in collaboration with Tanzania Forestry Research Institute (TAFORI) and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, hereby invites interested and qualified citizens of Tanzania (holding Master’s degree or equivalent) to submit applications for 2 PhD scholarshipsunder the Danida financed project “Climate, pollinator biodiversity, crop […]
One of the most invasive Australian weeds is being touted as a potential economic crop, with benefits for the construction, mining and forestry industries, and potentially many First Nations communities. The prickly paddy melon weed, which costs the agricultural industry around $100 million a year in lost grain yields, cattle deaths, and control measures, could turn into an […]
On 8 August 2023, twenty-six restoration practitioners and stakeholders set off from Oloitokitok – a small town on the green slopes of Kenya’s Mount Kilimanjaro – to Mbirikani Group Ranch in Kajiado County. There, the Centre for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) and Big Life Foundation were holding a field visit as part […]