Promises, Power and Poverty: Corporate land deals and rural women in Africa
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 Posted in Food security, Gender, Land, Pan Africa, Tanzania, Women's rights | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_6121" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Tatu, a woman farmer in Tanzania, harvesting potatoes"][/caption] A new Oxfam briefing paper, Promises, Power and Poverty: Corporate land deals and rural women in Africa, reflects the unfortunate finding from recent research that the promises of development ...
Making markets work for women smallholders in Tanzania
Sunday, March 31st, 2013 Posted in Agriculture, Food security, Tanzania, Women's rights | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_6052" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Farming in Tanzania"][/caption] As we launch the findings of our research on Women's Collective Action in agricultural markets, Global Research Adviser Martin Walsh, who helped to develop the ...
Stopping to listen to those who help themselves
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 Posted in Aid, Education, Governance, Tanzania | 1 Comment »Sometimes the most valuable insights into communities and development can be found by taking time to stop work and just talk and listen to people. Makarand Sahasrabuddhe reflects on a few days of random conversations in northern Tanzania: A couple of ...
Justice at last for Tanzania villagers owed money by gold mine
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 Posted in Governance, Tanzania | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_5964" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Maimuna Said"][/caption] For the past four years, villagers in Mwime in northwest Tanzania have been waiting for payments promised to them after a new gold mine opened up on their land. Oxfam’s Chukua Hatua project has ...
Tanzanian women talk about land
Monday, March 18th, 2013 Posted in Land, Tanzania, Women's rights | 1 Comment »[caption id="attachment_5946" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Women's Land Dialogue"][/caption] In Morogoro, Tanzania, Oxfam held a series of Women’s Land Dialogues – opportunities for rural women to discuss how their land and property rights can be improved. Women sat on benches under the shade of ...
SOLD! – activists sell off Tanzania’s famous landmarks
Friday, February 8th, 2013 Posted in Food security, Land, Photos, Tanzania | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_5739" align="alignleft" width="174" caption="Sold: Tanzania Independence Monument"][/caption] In a protest against land grabs, Tanzanian activists today "sold off" two of the most famous landmarks in the capital Dar es Salaam - the national independence monument and Coco beach. The protests were ...
Tanzanian rice farmers fight against climate change
Monday, January 14th, 2013 Posted in Agriculture, Climate change, Tanzania | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_5625" align="alignright" width="270" caption="Farmers in Tanzania"][/caption] "Climate change is killing us". Andrew Chikwanda could scarcely put it more bluntly. It's his first day as Acting Director of Kahama District in Tanzania, but his biggest challenge is obvious. The rain does still ...
Actor Amr Waked visits schools in Tanzania
Monday, January 7th, 2013 Posted in Education, Tanzania, Video, Water/sanitation | No Comments »In schools in rural Tanzania Oxfam is providing clean water and sanitation to help young girls and boys have a chance of a better future. Egyptian actor Amr Waked recently met pupils at schools where Oxfam and Dubai Cares are ...
2012- Our year in pictures
Thursday, January 3rd, 2013 Posted in DR Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Photos, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania | No Comments »As 2012 ends, a look back at some of the events that have shaped our work in the region over the past 12 months - from ongoing emergencies in South Sudan and DRC, to working with amazing women food producers ...
Sister Martha wins Tanzania’s Female Food Hero
Thursday, October 18th, 2012 Posted in Food security, Land, Tanzania, Women's rights | Comments Off[caption id="attachment_5345" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Sister Martha emerges from "The Village" as Female Food Hero 2012 winner"][/caption] After spending 14 days in the Maisha Plus reality TV village, Sister Martha Mwasu Waziri from Dodoma in central Tanzania was crowned as the Mama ...