Impact of livelihood strategies on household wellbeing in land shortage villages of mvomero district, Tanzania

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dc.contributor.authorLyatuu, Patricia M.
dc.contributor.authorUrassa, Justin K.
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-07T08:10:33Z
dc.date.available2023-08-07T08:10:33Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionJournal articleen_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines a household’s wellbeing status (HWBS) and its relationship with Livelihood Strategies (LS) and demographic characteristics (DC) in the land shortage villages of Mvomero District, Tanzania. Through a cross-sectional research design, a structured questionnaire was administered to 267 randomly selected households. The findings show that 95.3% of households were unwell expressly in Mgeta villages; only 6.7% formed a well-off category. Unlike the hypothesis, a combination of on and off-farm LS confirmed to have a positive significant influence (p < 0.05) on the likelihood for a household to be well-off, whilst sole farming demonstrated a negative influence. Likewise, unlike the hypothesis, location of a household and sex of its head verified to have a negative influence (p < 0.05) on the likelihood for a household to be well-off. It is concluded that the majority of households are not well and only a combination of on and off-farm LS enhance wellbeing except for female headed households and those located within shrunken arable land areas. Tanzania’s Development agencies are advised to encourage LS diversification, relocation to land abundant area while paying special attention to female headed households.en_US
dc.identifier.citationUrassa, J. K. & Lyatuu, P. M. (2019). Impact of Livelihood Strategies on Household Wellbeing in Land Shortage Villages of Mvomero District, Tanzania, East African Journal of Social and Applied Sciences, 1(2), 95- 113en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/5541
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherEast African Journal of Social and Applied Sciencesen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEAJ-SAS Vol.1, No.2;
dc.subjectArable landen_US
dc.subjectDiversificationen_US
dc.subjectLivelihood strategiesen_US
dc.subjectHousehold Well-Beingen_US
dc.subjectFarmingen_US
dc.titleImpact of livelihood strategies on household wellbeing in land shortage villages of mvomero district, Tanzaniaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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