Socio-economic effects of urban livestock farming in Dar es salaam City, Tanzania

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dc.contributor.authorMalipa, Isack
dc.date.accessioned2026-01-17T16:26:13Z
dc.date.available2026-01-17T16:26:13Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.descriptionMaster of Science in Agricultural Economics
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/20.500.14820/7217
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSokoine University of Agriculture.
dc.subjectUrban Agriculture
dc.subjectDar es Salaam city
dc.subjectTanzania
dc.subjectUrban livestock farming
dc.subjectSocio-economic effects
dc.titleSocio-economic effects of urban livestock farming in Dar es salaam City, Tanzania
dc.typeThesis

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