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Godfrey Eliseus Massay is a lawyer and land tenure specialist.He has eight years of experience working on land rights and in the natural resource sector in Tanzania, and has written and published numerous articles on land rights in both national and international academic journals.
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The Fact Finding Mission Report on the Land Conflict and Boundaries in Rufiji District
This fact finding mission had been organised to investigate the challenges facing pastoralists in Rufiji District, the challenges which have been defined as the source of conflict in this district. Although pastoralists had arrived in Rufiji since 1990’s but they officially went there and other places in Coastal and in Lindi Regions after they had been evicted from Ihefu and Kilosa in 2006-9. The Government, through their operation, announced to prepare areas for pastoralists and also to set all necessary and potential services for them to survive In Lindi, Ruvuma and Pwani Regions.
Report on Status of Meatu Litigation
According to the research and follow ups made by Pingo’s Forum and LHRC indicated that, most victims were not trespassers to the land as contented by the Government. The pastoralists including Sukuma, Taturu, hunters and gatherers (Hadzabe) lawfully living within the Conservation Area resisted the government movement to evict them without paying adequate compensation.
Eviction of Pastoralists from Kilombero and Rufiji Valleys, Tanzania
This report springs from series of field visits.Its aim was, among others, to examine further the extent of human rights violations suffered by pastoralists in Kilombero and Rufiji valley during the evictions. It additionally makes recommendations including the need for lobbying against the State’s contempt of court orders
The Constitutional Review Process Tour Report
This trip report includes key essential areas which were core areas of the tour; aim of the tour, list of organization visited and brief explanation about them, key issues of their advocacy, method they had applied, their experience, success, challenges and lesson learnt
Report on the Fact Finding Mission in Tanga Region
This is a report of a fact-finding mission which took place in Tanga Region in June 2013. It aims to map the situation of pastoralists and the challenges they face in three districts of Tanga Region namely Handeni, Korogwe and Pangani. There are similar challenges in Bagamoyo, Kilindi and Mchinga Districts which were not covered
Fact Finding Mission on the Impact of Wildlife Investment in Pastoralist Areas of Monduli, Simanjiro, Babati and Kondoa
This fact finding is the fulfilment of PINGO’s Forum daily activities for inquiring the challenges facing pastoralists communities. In this fact finding, we will look at the impact of wildlife conservations in pastoralists areas. The Wildlife sector has become a threat to livestock sectors by which the wildlife sector is grabbing livestock grazing areas in the name of wild life conservation. In this fact finding we will look at the impact of established Randile Wildlife Management Area (RWMA) into the grazing area of Lolkisale village among other five villages forming the WMA.
Vanishing Rangelands
The primary aim of this study is to investigate the size of the range lost to other forms of land uses. This will support the argument that it is time to reconsider the pastoralists sector as a legitimate mode of production in the country which, like other sectors, deserve due priority.
Soci0-Economic Contribution of Pastoralism as a Livelihood System in Tanzania
Tanzania is endowed with numerous resources including livestock. It is number three country in Africa in terms of livestock population after Ethiopia and Sudan. Currently, the country (Tanzania) has more than 22 million livestock, of which at least 95% are indigenous animals kept under traditional livelihood model known as indigenous pastoralism. At least 70% of Tanzanians earn their living through agro-pastoralism whereby around 40% of them entirely practices indigenous pastoralism.
Impacts of Climate Change on Land Use Patterns and Livelihoods of Pastoralists and Hunter Gathers
Over the years, PINGOs Forum has been concerned with the future of Pastoral and HunterGatherer communities with regard to changing patterns of traditional land use and livelihoods options. The information gathered from the past studies have risen much concern on the side of PINGOs Forum that perhaps climate change may have a serious bearing in the land use patterns and livelihoods of Pastoralists and Hunter-gatherers. As a result of this concern, PINGOs Forum decided to embark on a study to observe changes that have occurred in land use patterns in recent years.
Lawyers’ Environmental Action Team
The Lawyers' Environmental Action Team (LEAT) was established to ensure Tanzania's environment and natural resources are sustainably managed.
Their mission is to enhance the capacity and participation of the people in sub-Saharan Africa to sustainably manage their natural resources and environment through legal, policy and other strategic interventions.
LEAT’s major activities are conducting legal and social-policy research, advocacy work, public interest litigation and giving legal advice.