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Impact of Eucalyptus and Pine Growing on Rural Livelihood: The Lesson from Bukoba Area, North Western Tanzania

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dc.creator Mwanukuzi, Phillip K.
dc.date 2016-07-19T13:01:34Z
dc.date 2016-07-19T13:01:34Z
dc.date 2009
dc.date.accessioned 2018-03-27T09:09:41Z
dc.date.available 2018-03-27T09:09:41Z
dc.identifier Mwanukuzi, P.K., 2009. Impact of eucalyptus and pine growing on rural livelihood: the lesson from Bukoba area, north western Tanzania. African Journal of Ecology, 47(s1), pp.105-109.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/3266
dc.identifier 10.1111/j.1365-2028.2008.01056.x
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/3266
dc.description Full text can be accessed at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.2008.01056.x/full
dc.description Sustainable resource management intends to allocate resources in such a way that unnecessary deterioration of biophysical and socio-economical systems is avoided. In Bukoba Area where rainfalls are plenty, evergreen grasslands were expansive and forests were limited, eucalypts (eucalyptus spp.) and pines (pinus spp.) were grown on grasslands for preventing land degradation through deforestation and for providing additional source of income for rural poor. This study shows that in addition to detrimental consequence of eucalyptus and pine forests on soil resources, conversion of Bukoban grasslands to forests has negatively impacted livelihood of the rural poor. Growing eucalypts and pines on grasslands prevented a farming system that enabled integration of grasslands, cattle keeping and crop production. Consequently, the grasslands role of nutrients cycling was disrupted, food crop production reduced, home-gardens productivity declined, majority deprived important livelihood asset and foreign income flow into the area reduced.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Wiley
dc.subject Eucalyptus
dc.subject Grasslands
dc.subject Livelihood
dc.subject Nutrient recycling
dc.subject Pine
dc.title Impact of Eucalyptus and Pine Growing on Rural Livelihood: The Lesson from Bukoba Area, North Western Tanzania
dc.type Journal Article, Peer Reviewed


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