| Many of the poor people in Tanzania depend on the natural environment for
their food and also to make a living from selling forest products like firewood,
charcoal, honey and wild fruits. We don’t know enough about these activities
to make plans and set targets for protecting the environment. Information will
be gathered and built into future versions of the PRSP. |
| Life story patterns
showed that the poor with few assets would, with great effort,
slowly creep upward, only to be plunged back into poverty by
illness, loss of employment, poor crops or, for women,
desertion. There often is nothing to prevent them from falling
into the abyss. And when they do fall there may be nobody
waiting to catch them at the bottom or to lend a hand as they
attempt to start over. [Deepa Narayan] |
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