Contribution of beekeeping towards rural household livelihood in Tanzania

Paji, Kelvin

dc.creator	Paji, Kelvin
dc.date	2019-08-30T11:19:15Z
dc.date	2019-08-30T11:19:15Z
dc.date	2016
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-20T12:07:27Z
dc.date.available	2022-10-20T12:07:27Z
dc.identifier	Paji, K. (2016). Contribution of beekeeping towards rural household livelihood in Tanzania: the case of two selected wards Mlali and Chamkoroma in Kongwa district, Dodoma. Dodoma: The University of Dodoma
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/1321
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/1321
dc.description	Dissertation (MA Development Studies)
dc.description	This study aimed at assessing the contribution of beekeeping towards household livelihood with the aim of determining the potentiality of beekeeping towards the households’ livelihoods as an effort to reducing poverty in Mlali and Chamkoroma wards in Kongwa District, Dodoma. Specifically, the study intended (i), to assess the factors that influence people to engage in beekeeping activities in the study areas. (ii), to investigate the contribution of beekeeping towards household livelihood in the study areas. (iii), to examine available strategies towards beekeeping in the study areas. Data were collected using a cross- sectional design. Both probability and non- probability sampling procedure were employed. Questionnaires, participatory observation and interviews were used to collect data from the field. 97 respondents randomly were selected from two villages in Kongwa District. The study has found that majority of beekeepers 50% were influenced by the need to increase income while the rest were influenced by other beekeepers. Furthermore, beekeeping was found to have met the expectations to majority 80% of the beekeepers. The researcher, therefore, concludes that beekeeping has improved peoples’ livelihoods in the study area. Despite the absence of a special allocated site for operating beekeeping activities in the study areas as affirmed by 90% of the respondents, majority 99% of the respondents are able to access new knowledge on beekeeping from NGOs and internet. The study recommends that, the government should provide beekeeping equipment as well as market and price information to beekeepers.
dc.publisher	The University of Dodoma
dc.subject	Beekeeping
dc.subject	Beekeeping contribution
dc.subject	Tanzania
dc.subject	Beekeeping activities
dc.subject	Kongwa
dc.subject	Beekeeping strategies
dc.subject	Dodoma
dc.title	Contribution of beekeeping towards rural household livelihood in Tanzania
dc.title	The case of two selected wards Mlali and Chamkoroma in Kongwa district, Dodoma
dc.type	Dissertation