2009Oct6: Tanzania’s GDP could fall 68% by 2085 due to the impacts of climate change on its agricultural sector, according to environmental economists Muyeye Chambwera and James MacGregor (VOA News, 2009).
Reference: Voice of America News http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-10-06-voa48.cfm
Read Cultivating success: the need to climate-proof Tanzanian agriculture – Muyeye Chambwera, James MacGregor http://www.iied.org/pubs/display.php?o=17073IIED&n=1&l=6&k=Muyeye%20Chambwera
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