Environment

The Environment project was launched in 1995 to assist the Tanzanian governments efforts at improving environmental health.  Environment volunteers serve in rural communities teaching sustainable and productive agricultural practices in order to increase the standard of living in agricultural communities.  A particular focus is to assist persons living with HIV/AIDS to create sustainable income-generating activities.  In addition, environmental volunteers work with NGOs and schools in order to teach about hygiene, nutrition, and food preservation.
 
Library
  • Environmental Education Resource Book (pdf, 2.3 MB)
  • Environmental Education in the Schools: Creating a Program That Works! (pdf, 1.9 MB) - Available on the ICE publications website and the "Sharing Promising Practices" CD
    • This is a practical guide that offers useful information on introducing environmental issues into the academic curriculum. Each of the nine chapters deals with a different aspect of developing and implementing an environmental education program, starting with assessing local environmental problems and school conditions to determine goals and objectives, ways of gaining program support, and evaluating results. It contains a wealth of activities, illustrations, case studies, and Volunteer examples. [ICE No. M0044]
 
  • An Introduction to Agroforestry (pdf, 8.0 MB)
  • Agroforestry Training Program (pdf, 2.6 MB)
  • Agriculture and crop profile for Tanzania (doc, 52 KB)
  • Handbook on Agro-ecosystems Analysis and Agro-ecological Zoning: A tool for district landuse planning (pdf, 1.4 MB)
 
  • An Introduction to Soil Fertility (pdf, 280 KB)
  • Soil Testing: The First Right Step (pdf, 164 KB)
  • Collecting Soil Samples for Testing (pdf, 53 KB)
  • Take a Good Soil Sample to Help Make Good Decisions (pdf, 754 KB)

  • Selection of an irrigation method (pdf, 2.0 MB)
  • Smallholder Irrigation: Ways Forward (pdf, 817 KB)
  • Integrating population, health, and environment in Tanzania (pdf, 1.2 MB)
 
  • Fruit tree planting techniques (doc, 33 KB)
  • Moringa tree (pdf, 1.2 MB)
  • Moringa recipes (pdf, 83 KB)
  • Moringa manual (doc, 285 KB)
  • Moringa leaf powder (pdf, 475 KB)
  • Neem tree (pdf, 34 KB)
  • Leucaena tree (pdf, 20 KB)
  • Intercropping Principles and Production Practices (pdf, 664 KB)
  • Intercropping fact sheet (pdf, 103 KB)
  • Grafting: An Integrated Approach for Soilborne Disease Management (doc, 113 KB)
  • Plant propagation: Asexual propagation (grafting) (pdf, 1.5 MB)
  • Tree planting drive - project guidelines for volunteers (doc, 33 KB)
  • Green manure crops (pdf, 63 KB)
  • Water cycle (Swahili) (bmp, 1.2 MB)

  • Permagardening - The Garden Dialogue Approach (docx, 150 KB)
  • Permagardening field manual (Sept 2011) (doc, 4.2 MB)
  • Permagardening lesson plans (doc, 1.1 MB)

  • Beekeeping and Sustainable Livelihoods (pdf, 664 KB)
  • Report on successful beekeeping project (docx, 14 KB)
  • Starting a Dairy Goat Business: A Guide for Farmers (pdf, 535 KB)
  • Rearing dairy goats (pdf, 1.6 MB)
  • Farmers dairy goat production handbook (pdf, 454 KB)
  • Start a pig farm (pdf, 101 KB)
  • Introduction to pig farming (doc, 859 KB)
  • Integrated livestock-fish farming systems (pdf, 538 KB)

  • A-Frame Level (pdf, 200 KB)
  • Batik cloth as an IGA (doc, 27 KB)
  • Directory of Tanzania development organizations (pdf, 1.1 MB)
  • How to build a mudstove (doc, 107 KB)
  • Identifying indigenous specialists (doc, 33 KB)
  • Income Generating Activities Training Modules for Pre-Service and In-Service Training (doc, 331 KB)
  • Map of protected areas in TZ (jpg, 178 KB)
  • Measurement & Evaluation: The Sharp Jembe (doc, 68 KB)
  • Quilting as an IGA (Kelly Thayer, PCV) (doc, 26 KB)
  • Tanzania food security update (Feb 2009) (pdf, 1.4 MB)
  • Tanzania Investment and Environment Outlook (pdf, 96 KB)
  • Transect Walks and Observation (pdf, 220 KB)
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Karibu New PCVs

Submitted by BCrompton on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 10:42am

The new class of health and environment volunteers survived training and will be officially sworn in today.  They will be traveling to their sites tomorrow.

The Guardian ran a story here.   

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