Author: FELICIAN EZEKIEL (FELICIAN EZEKIEL)

Are you passionate about making a meaningful impact in the world? Do you want to gain hands-on experience in sustainable development while contributing to global change? The weltwärts program, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), offers Tanzanian young adults the unique opportunity to volunteer in Germany through a partnership...

As a result of living close to national park, farmers experience challenge of losing their crops from elephants. When elephants move from one park to another, they pass through farms and eat crops, something that affect income and food security of the community.ECOWICE is working with the Village natural resource committee and farmers group to...

Sesame is now the highly dependable crop for farmers who face challenges from elephants. Since elephants don't eat sesame,  farmers are now changing from growing elephant preferred crops to growing sesame. ECOWICE started by supporting 60 farmers by the year 2021 and now hundreds of farmers are  turning into growing sesame, " I like growing...

37.7%  (33,428,000ha)of Tanzania land is forested where the forest ownership and management lies on state. Local community  normally find themselves being excluded from earning forest benefits which in most cases drive them to utilize the forest illegally.With limited manpower and equipments, the government cannot manage to protect all forested areas and hence there is a...