by Johannes Thoma | Jul 15, 2019 | Climate, coffee&climate, Tanzania, Water, Water management
Since 2010, the initiative for coffee&climate (c&c) implements its vision to enable coffee farmers worldwide to adapt to climate change. Water scarcity is one of the challenges, farmers face. HRNS-staff Johannes Thoma tells the story of the Idugumbi-Community...
by Nora Fedisch | Jun 3, 2019 | Coffee Kids, Tanzania, Youth
Our program Coffee Kids aims to empower young coffee farmers to create thriving businesses. This it how they do it in Tanzania: On a seemingly typical December morning, the time had come for me to visit the Mareu Youth Group in Arusha region, Tanzania. I planned to do...
by Jesko Johannsen | Apr 7, 2019 | Climate, Coffee, coffee&climate, Tanzania
Since 2010, the initiative for coffee&climate (c&c) implements its vision to enable coffee farmers worldwide to adapt to climate change. See how this resulted in climate-smart innovation in Usa River, Tanzania. Ubunifu is the Swahili word for creativity. And...
by Johannes Thoma | Mar 7, 2019 | Academic research, Gender, Tanzania, Uganda
“Can we have both of them in the shot for the interview?” I asked Els while setting up the camera, nodding to the change agent couples sitting a few meters away from us. They were waiting to be interviewed by Els Lecoutere, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of...
by Jesko Johannsen | Feb 14, 2019 | Coffee Kids, Tanzania, Youth
Our program Coffee Kids aims to empower young coffee farmers to create thriving businesses. This it how they do it in Tanzania: Proud and with a smile, 27-year old Jehovaness is holding up an Arabica seedling from her own nursery. Her business plan is written on...
by Els Lecoutere | Aug 30, 2018 | Academic research, Evaluation, Gender, M&E, Tanzania, Uganda
A randomised control trial: Balancing scientific rigour, feasibility and program objectives In this guest Blog, Els Lecoutere from the University of Antwerp in Belgium, describes how she assessed the impact of improving intrahousehold decision-making on the efficiency...