ABSTRACT This study sought to analyse marketing chain of sawnwood from Mufindi District to Dares-salaam City and Arusha Municipality. Specifically, the study focused on examining the existing marketing chain of sawnwood, assessing chain’s key actors and how they develop chain strategy in the marketing of sawnwood, identifying main factors affecting marketing chain from producers to enduse manufactures, determining preliminary estimate of marketing margins at wholesale and retail sale nodes...
ABSTRACT This study was undertaken to analyse economic determinants for households involvement in fishing for livelihoods in coastal villages of Bagamoyo District. Specifically, trend in the number of fishers for ten years in coastal villages were determined, factors influencing household decision to be involved in fishing were examined and household income structure was analysed. Three villages were randomly selected and thirty households were randomly selected from each village. Primary da...
ABSTRACT Fishing sector is responsible for providing critical income for many families within fishing communities. Fishing activities explain the levels of income in which at the end indicate whether a given fishing household is benefiting.This studywas undertaken to assess the contribution of fishing to the household income in Mafia District.The data were collected from random sampled 120 household heads using several methods such as questionnaire survey; Focus Group Discussions (FGD), chec...
ABSTRACT Agriculture is an important source of food and economic survival of rural populations in Tanzania however farming activities are highly affected by rainfall variability which cause loss in crops and livestock yield. This study explored adaptation strategies to rainfall variability, socioeconomic factors influencing maize production in mixed farming systems. Specifically, assessed the trends in rainfall and maize production, determined the relationship between trends, identified farm...
ABSTRACT The present study was carried out in 2014 in Rombo District, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, in order to classify Chagga agroforestry home gardens and establish their relative contributions to food, income and wood energy to the local communities. The study methodology included random selection of four divisions, one ward from each division, one village from each ward and 30 households per village forming a total sample of 120 households. A social survey was subsequently carried out using q...
ABSTRACT Wetlands cover about 4–6% of the earth‟s surface and are the most productive ecosystems on earth. However, they are under threat from natural and anthropogenic factors with more than half having disappeared, largely through factors related to increase in human population such as; conversion to agricultural use, urbanization, transport and communication, human settlement and infrastructure expansion. This study assessed water quality, vegetation status, socio-economic status as...
ABSTRACT Animal feed scarcity and mostly the availability of high quality forage, is one of the major limiting factors to dairy productivity improvement in Lushoto District. This is a result of soil fertility losses due to soil erosion, deforestation practices and to the decrease or the abandonment of mineral fertilizer use. Thepresent study was conducted in Ubiri Village, Lushoto Districtto assess the influence of desmodium and farmyard manure on the agronomic performance of fodder plants s...
ABSTRACT This study was aimed at examining the role of formal and informal institutions in implementing REDD+ at local level in a REDD+ pilot project, Rungwe District, Tanzania. The study was conducted in four villages adjacent to Rungwe forest reserve, namely Ipuguso, Kandete, Kibisi and Ndala. Household questionnaire and PRA techniques were used in data collection. Content analysis technique was used for qualitative data while quantitative data were analyzed by using SPSS software version ...
ABSTRACT Mangala Village Land Forest Reserve is a productive forest under Community Based Forest Management being managed by the Mbangala Village Council. The forest reserve was established in 2010, at Songwe District in Songwe Region. Sustainable charcoal production in Songwe District has not received a systematic research assessment. To what extent the so called sustainable charcoal production adheres to sustainability principle is not clear. The aim of this study was to assess charcoal pr...
ABSTRACT The study was done to determine the willingness to pay (WTP) for improved watershed services by downstream water users in Babati District using contingent valuation method in the form of close and open-ended WTP questions. Specific objectives were (i) to assess the level of awareness of the downstream water users on the importance of watershed in the provision of sustainable water supply (ii) to estimate willingness to pay for watershed services by the downstream users (iii) to ana...
ABSTRACT Soil degradation attributed by erosion threatens agriculture production in many regions of Tanzania, consequently food insecurity and drawback poverty reduction efforts. Though various soil conservation measures (SCM) have been introduced and practiced by farmers, the extent of their adoption and sustainability are not clear. The objective of this study was to assess the factors influencing adoption of soil conservation measures, their sustainability, and socio-economic impacts amon...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted in Kinondoni Municipality, Dar es Salaam City, Tanzania. The aim of the study was to explore the potentials on provision of information on bottled mineral water and other beverages in order to improve its effective use in environmental management The specific objectives of the study were (i)To identify the existing information provided on the bottled mineral water and plastic bottled beverages (ii) to evaluate society’s awareness on the information provisio...
ABSTRACT The growth of tobacco production in Tanzania has become a threat to the woodlands due to the amount of firewood used for curing the crop. The overall objective of the research was to assess the economic feasibility of substituting firewood with sawdust and/or rice husks in curing tobacco. The specific objectives were to: (1) determine calorific values of sawdust briquettes, rice husk briquettes and firewood, (2) examine quality of tobacco cured by sawdust briquettes, rice husk briqu...
ABSTRACT Given the reality that trade-offs are rules rather than exceptions, there is a need to acknowledge them and assess how different groups of people influence conservation and development choices. This study was conducted on the Uluguru Mountains to assess the socio-economic factors influencing conservation and development trade-offs. Specifically, the study aimed to identify the major conservation and development trade-offs existing on the Uluguru Mountains, assess the socio-economic ...
ABSTRACT The study on the economic valuation of Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) and its implication for adaptation to climate change was conducted in four villages surrounding Iyondo Forest Reserve (IFR). The study specifically aimed at identifying and quantifying NTFPs for subsistence use and trade, examining factors influencing supply and demand of NTFPs, examining the total economic value of NTFPs and determining profit margin between different actors along the NTFPs market value chain...