Landscape degradation in Tanzania has occurred since the era of imposed colonial administrative policies, compounded by unsustainable environmental and land management practices due to local demand for agricultural land and fuel wood. For example, in the 1920s, the colonial administration instituted a programme in Shinyanga Region, which demanded local people to cut down large areas of the Miombo and Acacia woodlands to eradicate tsetse flies, opening up grazing land for the Wasukuma agro-pastoralist tribe. Although this program was successful in terms of its aims, it led to regional landscape degradation. As human and livestock populations increased, demand for fuel wood and farmland for food and cash crops grew in tandem, leading to large scale deforestation (Barrow et al. 2004).
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Publication year
2018
Authors
Language
English
Keywords
landscape, ecological restoration, forest rehabilitation
Geographic
Tanzania
Funders
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB), Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
