Tanzania: Mobile Data Helps Tanzanian Herders Get Ahead of Markets, Weather

20 June 2014

Dar es Salaam — Tanzania has devised a new system to help pastoralists and cattle traders track real-time market information on livestock, while keeping them abreast of weather conditions likely to affect their animals' wellbeing.

The system allows livestock dealers to monitor prices and volumes in markets across the country, while being alerted to the onset of drought and diseases that could affect herds.

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