From 1990 to 1994 I worked at the Mvumi Rural Training Centre, a rural NGO in Central Tanzania aiming at Participatory Technology Development. My managements tasks were:
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Develop a long term policy plan for MRTC
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Introduce zero-grazing in the area which was destocked in 1986. The destocking was a radical but necessary meassure to counter the extreme erosion caused by severe overgrazing
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Design a participatory extension system
In 1994 I published a A Farming System Analysis of the Wagogo, semi-pastoralists in Dodoma, Central Tanzania. Later, the experience in Dodoma were the foundation of an extensive paper on the role of research in rural development.
