MISC

2008年6月

Linking perceived land and water resources degradation, scarcity and livelihood conflicts in southwestern Tanzania: Implications for sustainable rural livelihood

Environment, Development and Sustainability
  • Z. J U Malley
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  • M. Taeb
  • ,
  • T. Matsumoto
  • ,
  • H. Takeya

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開始ページ
349
終了ページ
372
記述言語
英語
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DOI
10.1007/s10668-006-9069-9

In Africa, the land and water resources quality are key factors for sustainable development. The degradation of the quality of these resources leads to scarcities and conflicts, which together threaten the sustainability of rural livelihoods. This work investigated and analysed the livelihoods conflicts over the land and water resources and their scarcities, policies that contributed to the land and water scarcities and the livelihood conflicts and linkage of the conflicts to the resources scarcities and degradation. Implications of degradation of the resources, development policies and livelihoods conflicts on sustainable development are discussed. Literature study, visits and discussions, participatory assessments, observations and questionnaire survey were used tools to collect data. Interviews of the 266 households revealed that, those experiencing the land and water scarcities and conflicts over these resources are significantly (p &lt
0.001) higher than those not experiencing the scarcities and conflicts. Crop-livestock competition, over the land and water resources causes prominent conflicts. A significant, (p &lt
0.05) associations of livelihoods conflicts to water shortage and period of water shortage for crop and livestock production were found. Improved accessibility to soil and water management technologies, wildlife-livestock co-existence, recognition of needs and land rights for pastoralists are recommended to minimize scarcities and herders versus farmers' conflicts. © 2006 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-006-9069-9
CiNii Articles
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/80019534031
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1007/s10668-006-9069-9
  • ISSN : 1387-585X
  • CiNii Articles ID : 80019534031
  • SCOPUS ID : 42949084195

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