The Land of Potatoes, Tea and Trees// 'Roots' Out of Poverty?
In April 2016, Olivia and Esbern Friis Hansen, from DIIS in Copenhagen, visited villages in Njombe region where Esbern has conducted...
Dodoma to Babati//A Photo Blog
I went on an adventure yesterday. Ignoring everyones advice I decided to drive what looked on my map to be a more direct route from...
Tomatoes and Tengas//Fieldwork in Ikuwala Village
In February and March, Olivia and Torben Birch Thomsen did fieldwork in our second study site in Tanzania. Ikuwala village is located in...
The Great Big List of Vitongoji
A word of warning on this blog – it is definitely aimed at hard core Tanzanian researchers who love getting into the minutiae of data...
Tech Your Methods//Using Open Data Kit for Domestic Unit Surveys
Our first period of fieldwork in Gitting really helped us as a research group to identify ways in which we could improve and ‘streamline’...
A Pilot Study//Resurveying Domestic Units in Gitting
In October and November of 2015, Vesa-Matti Loiske and I returned to his study site where he did his doctoral research in 1991. Gitting...
LCT's Introductory Workshop @ The ESRC//Dar es Salaam
On Friday, the Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) in Dar hosted our introductory workshop. The aim of the session was to...