Northeast Tanzania's disappearing rangelands: Historical perspectives on recent land use change

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dc.contributor.authorBörjeson, L.
dc.contributor.authorHodgson, Dorothy L.
dc.contributor.authorYanda, Pius Z.
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-11T06:34:48Z
dc.date.available2016-03-11T06:34:48Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.descriptionFull text available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/40282530.pdfen_US
dc.description.abstractIn the nineteenth century, and during most of the twentieth century, Northeast Tanzania was a region dominated by two distinct types of food producing landscapes- intensively cultivated areas and the pastoral grazing lands of the Maasai Plains.1 However, in the last few decades a new distinct pattern of land use has developed in the region whereby large areas of the Maasai Plains have become extensively cultivated. In other parts of the world, as well as in other East African rangelands, rapid land use change during the last few decades of the twentieth century has usually been associated with the demands and opportunities of modernist development policies, pressures for increased productivity, rapid urbanization, land tenure reforms, population growth, and increased commercial investments in agriculture- factors that have also dominated recent land change processes in northeast Tanzania. Hence, the relatively abrupt shift in land use on the Maasai Plains, as documented by satellite image interpretations between the 1970s and 2000, closely follows an expected trajectory of rapid change based on the momentum of such recent driving forces, which in this case implies a conversion of large areas of pastoral rangelands and dry-land wood and bush savanna to a landscape dominated by agricultural production.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBörjeson, Lowe, Dorothy L. Hodgson, and Pius Z. Yanda. "Northeast Tanzania's disappearing rangelands: Historical perspectives on recent land use change." The International Journal of African Historical Studies 41, no. 3 (2008): 523-556.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/836
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTrustees of Boston Universityen_US
dc.subjectland useen_US
dc.subjectTanzaniaen_US
dc.subjectRangelandsen_US
dc.titleNortheast Tanzania's disappearing rangelands: Historical perspectives on recent land use changeen_US
dc.typeJournal Article, Peer Revieweden_US
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