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FELD 01/2019

  • Text
  • Heat
  • Water
  • Nature
  • Drought
  • Landscape
  • Fields
  • Climate
  • Zalf
  • Amphibians
  • Tanzania
  • Agriculture
  • Agricultural
Many people in Tanzania suffer from malnutrition. Together with local communities, a research team is working on solutions that could be used as an example for wide parts of Africa. // The more intensive the work on the fields, the more frequently agriculture and nature come into conflict. ZALF research shows that there are ways to better protect amphibians living in fields. // Kettle holes: small water bodies in the middle of our fields, with over 150.000 of them existing in Northern Germany alone. ZALF researchers are studying these biotopes, also looking at the indications they can give about the state of the landscape. // Summer heat waves like in 2018 might become more frequent in the future. An international research team finds out how exactly heat and drought affect crops and how agriculture can adapt.

Tanzania Tanzania Blood

Tanzania Tanzania Blood samples provide information on the nutritional status of the village population and thus on whether the project is really achieving the desired results. However, many people in Tanzania’s rural regions are unaware of blood sampling and are often skeptical about it. Information campaigns to promote acceptance and understanding are therefore all the more important. GARDENS AND EDUCATION The green plant bags were a first, visible success. But the researchers knew that the bags alone would not be able to sustainably improve the population’s diet. They worked together with the local communities to initiate further innovations at many levels: Compost systems, school gardens, an app for more transparent market or large rainwater cisterns to collect precious water during the rainy season. At the heart of the project, however, are newly built nutrition centers in the villages. In the “Nutrition Upscaling Center” people learn how to eat more healthy and sell home-grown vegetables or seeds for the kitchen garden. Farmers learn how to refine their products and thereby achieve higher prices. Nutrition becomes the topic of discussion in the village – and that for the long term. In the meantime, the residents of the neighboring villages visit the center to find out about healthy nutrition as well as the cultivation, marketing and profitable sale of vegetables. After two years, new studies indicated that the first successes are taking shape. In Morogoro, where people were very overweight and yet still malnourished, the blood test results of mothers and children have improved significantly. “Anemia has almost halved”, Constance Rybak says happily. Recently she visited Tanzania again and was pleased to see that people are continuing to cultivate the bag gardens. Ryback was also delighted about the fact that healthy nutrition has become an issue in everyday village life. The knowledge with which the village population creates new value chains is concentrated above all in the nutrition centers. The researchers are convinced that the facilities could also be trendsetting for other regions. Together with policymakers, business and local communities they are currently working on new concepts to establish these institutions as centers of innovation. THE TEAM Project coordinator Dr. Constance Rybak works together with group leader Dr. Stefan Sieber in the working group “Sustainable Land Use in Developing Countries” at ZALF. To the »Scale-N« video 08 09

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