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10 June 2016
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
In this brief, Lucas Katera looks at the barriers Tanzanian citizens and other nonstate actors face in trying to make the state listen...
Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) is a five-year, DFID-funded, research programme consortium which aims to produce new evidence and policy insights into different pathways to agricultural commercialisation in Africa and their differential outcomes for local people and economies.
23 May 2016
Published by: IDS
To effectively reach poor people, nutritious food must be affordable, available in the market, safe, and must contain the nutrients which it claims to have. Ensuring that nutritious food can reach the most vulnerable cannot be addressed by an individual business or value chain, but rather must be addressed through influencing the market system more broadly.
19 May 2016
29 April 2016
Published by: IDS
Development theory has built on the historic experience of rich countries to identify a foundational role for agricultural growth in national economic development.
The Sustainable Development Goals have targeted universal access to water and sanitation, and associated monitoring is intended to help achieve this target. Reflecting on Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, this consultancy explores how global monitoring could better support local efforts to improve water and sanitation in low-income urban settlements.
11 February 2016
Published by: IDS
Policymakers in a number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are seeking to work with food markets and food businesses as part of efforts to reduce undernutrition. These market-based approaches include national fortification programmes, public food distribution systems, new product development and the promotion of biofortified crops.
28 January 2016
I returned to IDS for the fortieth anniversary conference after an absence of almost 20 years. Feeling a sense of excitement tinged...
27 January 2016
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This article draws upon a comparative survey of young people’s vulnerability to HIV and primary research conducted in two wards of Dar...
27 January 2016
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Tanzania has a population of about 40 million people, half of whom are children (herein defined as under the age of 18 years). Poverty...