Tanzania

Like this farmer in Kenya, the challenge in Tanzania is connecting smallholder farmers to larger markets. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ciat/5366702717/sizes/z/">CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture</a>

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Value Chains

How a Tanzania NGO scrapped grants to build markets that last

When it comes to solving poverty, sometimes the best way to get more done is to move out of the driver's seat.

Companies are working to empower in the tech sector. Photo: <a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/unwomenarabstates/7245942414/sizes/m/in/photostream/”> UN Women Arab States (Flickr)</a>

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Youth Skills

Geekery for all: Google chips $6m to youth tech empowerment

With the iLab educating in Liberia and the Switchboard mobilizing health across Africa, Google is working on global technology empowerment.

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The mobile phone is the bank of choice in Africa

A new Gallup Poll from Sub-Saharan Africa shows that the mobile phone is the most popular way to transfer money in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

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TV makeover show shapes up East African agricultural economies

Edutainment company Mediae's latest recipe to revive rural livelihoods in Kenya mixes agricultural education and reality TV, with a pinch of celebrity and a dash of drama.

The Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic is a plan to deliver medical services by water to reach populations that would otherwise be restricted by their landscape. Photo courtesy LTFHC.

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Floating clinics, rolling medics: In Africa, the hospital goes to you

For those who live in some of the most challenging landscapes in rural Africa, two innovative models are expanding the distribution of health care to ensure consistent aid—a boat and a truck.

Those mangroves aren't just nice-looking - they could be delivering serious value to nearby farms just by staying put. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/aramisfirefly/3306656930/in/photostream/">Matthew Stewart (Flickr)</a>

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10 African countries will put a price on 'natural capital'

A plot of mangroves could be harvested for $850, then the land sold for $9,000 to a shrimp farmer. Or, alternatively, it could stay standing and offer $16,000 worth of flood protection to everyone nearby.

Food aid procured by the World Food Program in Tanzania has injected millions of dollars into the country's economy. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/theroadtothehorizon/2175363898/">Photo: WFP/Tom Haskell (Flickr)</a>

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By shopping local, the UN puts food aid to work for African economies

The benefits of food aid go beyond feeding the hungry.

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Who needs the grid? Three ways Africans are making DIY electricity cheaper

The HipPump, a portable, low-cost farming tool, will help women in Tanzania plant money making crops year round. Photo courtesy of <a href="http://www.kickstart.org/products/moneymaker-hip-pump/">Kickstart</a>

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Drill, baby, drill: Rockefeller's cash will finance one-woman water operations

Kickstart, a non-profit that empowers female farmers in Tanzania, recently scored a win with Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and The Rockefeller Foundation.

Apps4Africa helps African farmers to be more productive in the face of climate change. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/iicd/5348358125/sizes/m/in/photostream/">IICD (Flickr)</a>

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Made in Africa: Three mobile apps to fight climate crisis

As the Apps4Africa climate challenge announces its winners, African farmers and communities gain new market tools in tackling the everyday challenges of climate change. And who better to design these tools than Africans themselves?

A simple solution makes a big impact for Ethiopia's farming families. Photo: Erin Gray/Mercy Corps.

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19 Ways We Innovate: Winners Announced

And the winner of Mercy Corps’ internal innovations competition is...(drumroll, please)... Ethiopia! Despite—or very well perhaps because—of the massive drought that's hit the Horn of Africa, community members and Mercy Corps staff have hit on a solution that's both simple and cheap.

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East Africa seeks to learn from the Eurozone's mistakes

Has the eurozone crisis made shared currencies passe? East African leaders don’t think so, and they’re looking to Europe for an example of what not to do.

Women farmers in Africa produce over 60 percent of all food crops. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cimmyt/5352940723/in/photostream/">CIMMYT (flickr)</a>

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In Africa, female scientists should power female farmers, group says

Women comprise 43 percent of the world’s farmers. In Africa, it’s 80 percent. Women plant, harvest, process and sell their crops, but men continue to dominate agricultural science and research. This may be about to change.