Transportation in Dar es Salaam is particularly difficult. Statistical data drawn from the 1993 Human Resources Development Survey confirm that in unplanned settlements, transportation conditions and access to urban services are less favourable than in the rest of the city. The poverty of a...

Cet article vise à illustrer les liens entre mobilité quotidienne et processus de ségrégation spatiale dans les villes d'Afrique subsaharienne. Dans un contexte général de croissance démographique, d'étalement urbain, et de pauvreté persistante des ménages comme des acteurs publics, à...

En Afrique sub-saharienne, le coût du transport supporté par les citadins tend à ajouter aux difficultés quotidiennes, notamment des plus pauvres. La connaissance du poids du transport dans les budgets paraît essentielle pour améliorer les conditions de transport des pauvres et l'équité...

In this paper we have put forward a Bayesian framework for the analysis and testing of possible non-stationarities in extreme events. We use the extreme value theory to model temperature and precipitation data in the Dar es Salaam region, Tanzania. Temporal trends are modeled writing the...

Global food supply is dominated by transnational corporations, which have great power and are widely critiqued for the negative environmental and social impacts of their operations. Many argue that this industrial food system is unsustainable, yet its expansion seems inevitable and alternatives...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide generalised views on ways in which field practice in Tanzania deviates from the village savings and lending associations (VSLA) methodology. Design/methodology/approach The research applied “participant observation method” involving actual...