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16
Feb

Mpwapwa and Kongwa farmers to benefit from a new beekeeping project

Farmers in six villages of Mpwapwa and Kongwa districts are set to benefit from a new beekeeping project launched by LEAD Foundation. Some of the “lead” farmers from the six villages The timely initiative, christened ‘Kiboriani Reforestation and Beekeeping Project’ is an incentive to encourage the farmers to beef up the war against environmental degradation in their areas. In his remarks during launching of the project over the weekend in Mpwapwa District, Director of Programmes at LEAD Foundation, Njamasi Chiwanga, said the environment
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22
Oct

Igunga exchange visit

What’s better than sharing your knowledge and experience with an enthusiastic and inquisitive group of people from different corners of the country? Two weeks ago we held such an event in Kongwa, one of our districts. Farmers, Maasai, village leaders and ecovillage project employees came to visit  LEAD Foundation from different parts of Tanzania. This resulted in 15 participants from centre-east Tanzania (Igunga) and a number from north Tanzania (Mbaash). After they had seen the Kisik Hai documentary, they were eager to learn
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18
Sep

Measuring in colours

These people have just received a colored stick from us. They are trainers from the Kongwa district in Dodoma who will keep track of the number of trees and the height of each tree with these colourful sticks. These facilitators specifically monitor the re-greening by the farmers they have trained before. For each height (color) the facilitators can shade how many trees a farmer has. For example blue (50-100 cm): 34 trees. Green (200 + cm): 12 trees. Etcetera. In the corresponding
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20
Mar

The traveling cinema in Tanzania

Our ‘Kisiki Hai’ caravan about re-greening one of the most affected landscapes has been traveling around Central Tanzania for one month already, and in two months’ time it will visit 60 villages. Today it is Iyumbwi village’s turn! The film inspires and activates farmers how they can re-green their land and make their land suitable to grow food again. Imagine that you have never or rarely seen a movie. A normal evening out for us, is THE event of the year
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1
Jul

A National Workshop on “Combating Desertification and restoring degraded lands into Food Baskets”

LEAD Fondation in collaboration with the office of the Parliament of Tanzania, World Agroforestry Centre/ICRAF and World Vision organized a national workshop for Members of Parliament and senior executives, from 18th – 19th June, 2016 in Dodoma, on regreening Tanzania. The main goal of the workshop was to scale up Kisiki Hai countrywide and to promote a National Regreening Movement involving the Tanzania Government, Civil Society Organisations and Development Partners to join forces in combating desertification and turning degraded land into
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