1. Session:Crop-raiding by elephants can devastate small farmers, leading to food insecurity, lost opportunity costs, and even death, as well as negative attitudes towards elephants, but finding effective and inexpensive solutions, has proven extremely difficult. Beehive fences surrounding crops...
  2. Session:The presentation will focus on women processing groups that have been capacitated by WODSTA to add value to different agricultural products such as fruits, vegetables, and honey, and to enable women to access reliable markets for processed, preserved fruits and vegetables to augment their...
  3. Session:Conservation Agriculture (CA) provides clear soil conservation benefits, but meta-analyses from across sub-Saharan Africa indicate that CA on its own only provides a small increase in yields – not enough for most farmers to overcome food insecurity in the short term. Taking a more...
  4. Session:The session will address promoting community ownership for sustainable development through Asset Based Community Development. Development starts with changing people’s mindset to believe in themselves, appreciate what is within their means - their abilities, talent, and resources and...
  5. Session:We cannot face the climate crisis alone. We need solutions from grassroots communities, scientists, technology companies, governments, and the private sector. We need to create new pathways to share knowledge and best practice to accelerate ecosystem restoration. Let's imagine together...
  6. Session:Simon Ewing will share on empowering women farmers with agricultural technology hubs. Speaker:Simon Ewing is a missionary serving with Emmanuel International UK in Mwanza, Tanzania. A mechanical engineer by training, Simon is currently running an innovation trial funded by Fund for...
  7. Session:Rangeland degradation and invasive species infestation in northern Tanzania, driven by climate and societal change, reduces threatened wildlife populations and threatens food security for pastoralist communities. Here, women are the biggest victims of climate change and land degradation...
  8. Session:The presentation will discuss recent changes being implemented in the TFS Meru Plantation Forest through the ‘Taungya’ management of land. Farmers contract to cultivate land which is planted to forestry species for annual crops until the tree canopy closes, but until recently, did not...
  9. Session: The presentation will highlight the successes, challenges, and best practices to mobilize community buy-in in the adoption of FMNR and rainwater harvesting. Speaker: Njamasi Chiwanga works as the Director of Programs at LEAD Foundation - a local NGO based in Dodoma, Central Tanzania....
  10. Session:The presentation will focus on sharing experiences and lessons learned in promoting community participation and engagement for biodiversity protection. It will highlight the role of land use planning in promoting community conservation initiatives and landscape management. We will also...