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Land tenure and mining in Tanzania

January, 2008
Tanzania, Sub-Saharan Africa
mining
land
land tenure
land rights
extractive industries
This study focuses on mining related conflicts in Tanzania, a relatively new mining country. It argues that unclear land and mining rights, and conceptual differences in how land and mining rights are perceived, contribute to conflict in the country and to a feeling among both local people and human rights advocacy groups that the government has betrayed ordinary people.The study finds that there have been seven recorded conflicts related to mining companies in the country, six of them taking place over the last seven years.
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Losing ground in the Mara: fast but not inevitable

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2007
Kenya, Tanzania, Africa, Eastern Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
pastoral lands
rangelands
pastoralists
The Maasai Mara Ecosystem (MME) is one of the key wildlife areas in Kenya and has more wildlife than any other part of the country. However, aerial surveys by the Department for Resource Surveys and Remote Sensing (DRSRS) show that Mara lost 60% of it’s resident wildlife in the last 25 years. As human populations grow, and crop farming expands and land privatizes, these pressures will only grow.
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Kitengela transforming: Will pastoralists and wildlife survive?

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2007
Kenya, Tanzania, Africa, Eastern Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
pastoral lands
rangelands
pastoralists
The semi-arid Kitengela plains south of Nairobi National Park (NNP) have been the longtime

home of the Kaputiei Maasai community. Together with NNP these plains form the

Athi-Kaputiei ecosystem. The plains host rich populations of wildlife and are vital to the

health of NNP, since 70 to 80 percent of the Park’s animals roam outside it’s boundaries

at any one time.

But the rangeland that once seemed endless is now splintering. Close to the ever

expanding Nairobi, the Kitengela plains are experiencing a population boom, rising land
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Género y tierra: Compendio de estudios de caso

Reports & Research
December, 2007
Dominica, Burkina Faso, Honduras, Zambia, El Salvador, Chile, Guatemala, Zimbabwe, Bolivia, Cuba, Namibia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Lesotho, Uganda, Tanzania, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Senegal, Paraguay, Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
property rights
customary law
customary tenure
land governance
Indigenous Peoples
land tenure
private ownership
land reform
land tenure systems
land ownership
indigenous people's tenure
Desde sus orígenes, el desarrollo de la agricultura ha estado estrechamente ligado al trabajo de la mujer. Su contribución a la agricultura se remonta a más de 6 000 años, cuando se inició la domesticación de animales y plantas en los primeros asentamientos humanos. Con el paso del tiempo, con la división del trabajo y de responsabilidades tanto en el seno de la unidad familiar como en la comunidad, se asignaron a las mujeres las tareas y responsabilidades vinculadas a las actividades agrícolas y nutricionales.
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Original People

Land, Culture, History & Destiny

Reports & Research
December, 2007
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
advocacy
agrarian reform
agrarian structure
land access
land use
land use mapping
land-use planning
natural resources management
sustainable land use
The Hadzabe community of the Yaida Valley requested UCRT to assist them to undertake a cultural mapping exercise.
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Wildlife Conservation for Tourism Investments or Villagers' Livelihoods?

A Fact-Finding Mission Report on Vilima Vitatu Village Land Dispute-Babati District

Reports & Research
June, 2007
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
advocacy
agrarian reform
communal ownership
compulsory acquisitions
encroachment
eviction
indigenous peoples' land rights
land conflicts
land dispute
land grabbing
A fact-finding mission team was formed as a result of consultative meetings on the land dispute between the village government and pastoralists in Vilima Vitatu village in Babati district. The team was comprised of the following members: Kassian Mshomba (LHRC), Seif Mangwangi (Majira), Diana Mawalla (PINGOs Forum), Hamadi Sadick, Emmanuel Cornel (PINGOs Forum), Asraji Mvungi (ITV), Rodgers Luhwago (The Citizen), Bakari Mnkondo (Uhuru), Bernard Baha (HakiArdhi) and Chambi Chachage (Independent Researcher).
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Report on Eviction and Resettlement of Pastoralists from Ihefu and Usangu-Mbarali District to Kilwa and Lindi Districts

Reports & Research
December, 2007
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
advocacy
agrarian reform
communal ownership
concession (land)
environment
eviction
indigenous peoples' land rights
land administration
pastoral land rights
pastoralists
This study is focused on the effects of the eviction process of pastoralists from Mbarali to Lindi Rural and Kilwa Districts in Lindi Region. The study sampled six villages out 15 villages in Lindi Rural and Kilwa districts. The study employed semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions with district, village authorities, host communities and migrating pastoralists in selected villages.
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Urban agriculture - a key to food security

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2008
Tanzania
Urban Tenure
urbanization
urban population
rural population
land markets
land
farming systems
food security
farmers
land policies
Dar es Salaam is one of the fastest growing cities in sub-Saharan Africa. In its rapidly expanding peri-urban fringe poor migrants from distant rural areas settle down on plots they can afford that provide access to urban markets. They engage in commercial poultry farming establishing sustainable livelihoods and improving food security in the city.
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SP/SSM

Policy Papers & Briefs
May, 2007
Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Botswana, China, Congo, Cuba, Côte d'Ivoire, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Mauritius, Mongolia, Montserrat, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Tanzania, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe
agricultural land management
agriculture
farmers
farmers associations
farming systems
land economics
A Special Product (SP) is an agricultural product “out of the WTO” in that they are not subject to tariff reductions, i. e. Countries can keep the right to maintain protective tariffs on certain agricultural products that are essential for food security, rural development, and farmers’ livelihoods. The G33 proposal is for 10% of developing country products to be exempt from tariff reductions, with an additional 10% of product lines to have limited tariff reductions. This would be somewhere in the range of 300 products. The US counter-proposal is for a mere 5 products!
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Emergent or illusory? Community wildlife management in Tanzania.

Issue Paper No. 146

Reports & Research
January, 2007
Tanzania
Indigenous Peoples
local communities
pastoralists
land rights
common property
land policies
legal empowerment
natural resources management
environment
As with natural resource management reform processes elsewhere in East Africa, Tanzanian CWM has become highly contested terrain, both physically and conceptually. The linear, centrally-led, devolutionary reform processes that were conceptualised by donor and NGO supporters of CWM in the mid-1990s have not materialised. Rather, multi-faceted political and institutional conflicts over the control of valuable land and wildlife resources characterise CWM in Tanzania today.