Socio-economic effects of urban livestock farming in Dar es salaam City, Tanzania
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Date
2013
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Sokoine University of Agriculture.
Abstract
This study was conducted in the Dar es Salaam city aimed at assessing the socio
economic effects of urban livestock farming in Tanzania. The specific objectives of
the study were: (i) to determine the effect of urban livestock farming on household
income and income distribution (ii) to determine the effect of urban livestock
farming on employment and (iii) to determine the effect of urban livestock farming
on food security and nutrition at household level. With and without research design
was employed to determine the socio-economic effects of urban livestock farming. A
structured questionnaire was used to collect data from 100 livestock keeping and 100
non livestock keeping households. The data were processed and analyzed using
SPSS and Stata. The study finds income of livestock keepers to be significantly
(P<0.05) higher than that of non livestock keepers. Concentration coefficient score
indicates that the income from urban livestock farming affect negatively the income
distribution. Livestock keepers were found to create significantly (P<0.05) more jobs
than non livestock keepers. Diet was found to be significantly more diversified
among livestock keepers than non livestock keepers. The livestock keepers were
found to be significantly (P<0.05) able to feed themselves from their own resources
than non livestock keepers. It is upon this conclusion that all null hypotheses that
urban livestock farming has an inequality decreasing effect, urban livestock farming
has no significant effect on food security and nutrition at the household level and
urban livestock farming has no significant effect on employment creation have been
rejected. To improve socio-economic situation of urban population through urban
livestock farming the study recommends improvement in access to capital, review of
urban livestock policies and by-laws, integrating livestock farming in urban land use planning, reducing cost of livestock farming and enforcement of laws and regulations
governing provision of public veterinary services.
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Master of Science in Agricultural Economics
Keywords
Urban Agriculture, Dar es Salaam city, Tanzania, Urban livestock farming, Socio-economic effects