Livestock population and role of land use planning on sustainable grazing land management: case of Tanganyika district, Katavi region
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Date
2023
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Rangeland Society of Tanzania (RST)
Abstract
The aim of the study was to assess the trend of livestock
population and contribution of land use planning process towards
development and implementation of sustainable grazing land
management, reconciling land use with environmental concerns
and resolve potential conflicts between sectoral interests and
potential uses as well as increasing land tenure security and
clarify customary land tenure of grazing lands (communal lands)
as per requirement of national policies and laws. The study
employed Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF) as
tools to realize the study aims. Results from the livestock data in
the district show that there is an increasing number of livestock,
and in particular cattle increased from about 39600 in the year
2006/2007 to about 316651 recorded in the year 2016/2017 in the
Tanganyika district. This signifies that the district experienced
almost 700% increase in cattle from 2006 to 2017. In the year
2018, Lwega village located within the Mwese ward contributed
20950 cattle (55%) out of the 37834 in the Mwese ward. Land use
planning process was carried out in the Lwega village as pilot village to enable setting aside areas for various uses including
grazing land and issuance of Certificate of Customary Right of
Occupancy (CCRO) in grazing land and other communal lands.
The process enabled setting aside grazing land of total area of
12,955 ha (which is 26% of the whole village land) for the village
with a total of 12,736 Livestock (with a total of 11,359 cows) by
2020 and which is expected to have a total of 15,193 Livestock
(with a total of 13,313 cows) by 2030 based on the number of
livestock found within new village boundary which was
resurveyed in 2020. The requirement of grazing land was 20,579
ha which would have been sufficient for the planning period of 10
years i.e. from 2020 to 2030. This has a deficit of 7,625 ha and
therefore this calls for a further study which will provide
recommendations for interventions to improve rangeland quality
and advise on restoration techniques of the currently degraded
rangeland including enrichment planting and identify species of
interest taking into account their palatability, intake, digestibility,
and nutrient content for future reseeding programs or other
measures including destocking.
Description
Healthy Rangelands for Sustainable Natural Resource Productivity
Keywords
Land use planning, Grazing land management, CCRO, Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF)