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

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dc.creator Börjeson, L.
dc.creator Hodgson, Dorothy L.
dc.creator Yanda, Pius Z.
dc.date 2016-03-11T06:34:48Z
dc.date 2016-03-11T06:34:48Z
dc.date 2008
dc.date.accessioned 2018-04-18T11:17:51Z
dc.date.available 2018-04-18T11:17:51Z
dc.identifier Börjeson, 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.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/836
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/9415
dc.description Full text available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/40282530.pdf
dc.description In 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.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Trustees of Boston University
dc.subject land use
dc.subject Tanzania
dc.subject Rangelands
dc.title Northeast Tanzania's disappearing rangelands: Historical perspectives on recent land use change
dc.type Journal Article, Peer Reviewed


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