Tag: Sokoine University of Agriculture

  • “Extreme floods to bring good tidings to Tanzania city” UPGro in The East African
    “Extreme floods to bring good tidings to Tanzania city” UPGro in The East African

    Why heavy rainfall from El Niño is a key to the water supply of Tanzania’s growing capital city.

  • Avoiding the Mistakes of the Asian Green Revolution in Africa
    Avoiding the Mistakes of the Asian Green Revolution in Africa

    DODOMA, Tanzania, Jul 11 2019 (IPS) – Research scientists are studying groundwater resources in three African countries in order to understand the renewability of the source and how people can use it sustainably towards a green revolution in Africa.

  • The Baseflow Detective looking to uncover the secrets of Tanzania’s rivers
    The Baseflow Detective looking to uncover the secrets of Tanzania’s rivers

    Interview with Hezron Philipo, GroFutures by Sean Furey, Skat Foundation Hezron Philipo has a BSc in Geology (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), MSc in Water Resources and Environmental Management (University of Twente at  ITC, The Netherlands) and is currently doing his PhD research at Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania as part of the…

  • Water monitoring upgraded in Upper Great Ruaha, Tanzania

    re-posted from GroFutures The GroFutures Team, working with the Tanzanian Ministry of Water and Irrigation, expanded monitoring infrastructure in the Upper Great Ruaha Observatory (UGRO) to include interactions between groundwater and surface water. An outstanding question regarding the sustainability of groundwater withdrawals for irrigation and drinking-water supplies is whether groundwater in the agriculturally intensive lowlands is replenished…

  • Groundwater monitoring established in the Upper Great Ruaha Basin, Tanzania
    Groundwater monitoring established in the Upper Great Ruaha Basin, Tanzania

    Re-posted from GroFutures.org The GroFutures team at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA, Tanzania), led by Japhet Kashaigili (SUA) with support from PhD students, Hezron Philipo (SUA) and David Seddon (UCL), established in July (2017) a groundwater-level monitoring network in the Upper Great Ruaha Basin Observatory in southern highlands of Tanzania.  This area is part of the Southern Agricultural…

  • GroFutures at the Association of Tanzanian Water Suppliers (ATAWAS)
    GroFutures at the Association of Tanzanian Water Suppliers (ATAWAS)

    Professor Japhet Kashaigili presented recent research from the GroFutures Site Observatory in Tanzania (Makutapora) at the 4th Annual Conference (AWAC 2016) of the Association of Tanzanian Water Suppliers (ATAWAS) held on 8th and 9thNovember 2016 in Dodoma, Tanzania. Under the theme of “Knowledge, Capacity and Learning in the Water and Sanitation Sector,” the development of…

  • El Niño Monitoring in Tanzania
    El Niño Monitoring in Tanzania

    from Grofutures The GroFutures team is working with the Tanzanian Ministry of Water to establish automated, high-frequency monitoring to examine how heavy rains associated with the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) replenish vital groundwater resources. The team from Sokoine University of Agriculture (Japhet Kashaigili, PhD student Richard Festo) and UCL (Richard Taylor, PhD Student David Seddon)…