Proceedings of the 5th Scientific Conference of Rangeland Society of Tanzania (RST)

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    Fodder commercialization as strategic solution for increased ruminants’ productivity and reduced land use conflicts in Tanzania: A review
    (Rangeland Society of Tanzania (RST), 2023) Kamugisha, Proscovia Paschal
    Forage is the major input in livestock production whose adequate quality and quantity makes it a key component for increased livestock productivity. Natural pastures have been used to feed ruminants in Tanzania over years. Steady growth of human & livestock population, climate change prevalence, and encroachment of pastures through conversion of communal grazing land to wildlife conservation, expansion of crops farming land and areas for construction threaten adequacy and sustainability of pastures. Scarcity of pastures is widely documented as a cause of land use conflicts between farmers and livestock keepers in Tanzania. Measures to address inadequate pastures have been focused on ratification & enforcement of land laws, fair land use plans; and strengthening traditional conflicts resolution mechanisms. Despite the aforementioned efforts, the land use conflicts are still existing. Likewise, livestock are affected more during the dry season that leads to low productivity parameters. Therefore, this review paper advocates commercialization of fodder production to improve productivity of ruminant animals and mitigate land use conflict in Tanzania. The paper emplo\ed Vcoping liWeUaWXUe UeYieZ appUoach of AUkVe\ and O¶Malle\ (2005) to map the present literature by using four search queries namely; declining Tanzanian communal range lands, land use conflicts, fodder production technologies & profitability of fodder production from reliable sources. The review study shows that there is massive 148 potential to produce fodder commercially with promising profit margins Zhich can VignificanWl\ conWUibXWe Wo impUoYed UXminanWV¶ pUodXcWiYiW\ and reduction of land use conflicts. However, further pasture production research for cost-benefit analysis and market need to be done to ascertain the commercial pasture business concept in Tanzania