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Marginalization of Maasai Pastoralists in Northern Tanzania

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dc.contributor.author Gamaasa, Deo-Gratias Mboje
dc.date.accessioned 2010-01-27T14:31:09Z
dc.date.available 2010-01-27T14:31:09Z
dc.date.issued 1993 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5447
dc.description.abstract "A study to assess the impact of agricultural development and wildlife conservation on Maasai pastoral commons was carried out in 1989 in two villages in Norther Tanzania. Maasai had occupied this area of about 400 sq km from ca. 1400 A.D. Intercensal analyses show a sixfold population increase between 1947 and 1989. Before 1960, 70% of the population was Maasai; in 1989 Maasai are just 29%, immigrant Waarusha 52%, and other tribes, 20%. The area is contiguous to Tarangire Park which was an integral part of the Maasai grazing ecosystem before its establishment in 1972. Wild herbivore biomass density was 4197 kg/sq km. Wildlife utilizes the pastoral grazing commons but pastoralists are forbidden to graze and water in the park. It was concluded that the immigrants had occupied wet season grazing land for the Maasai; turned it into agricultural land. Wildlife conservation denied accessibility into grazing commons." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject IASC en_US
dc.subject pastoralism en_US
dc.subject wildlife en_US
dc.subject land tenure and use en_US
dc.subject Maasai (African people) en_US
dc.title Marginalization of Maasai Pastoralists in Northern Tanzania en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.type.published unpublished en_US
dc.type.methodology Case Study en_US
dc.coverage.region Africa en_US
dc.coverage.country Tanzania en_US
dc.subject.sector Grazing en_US
dc.subject.sector Wildlife en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Common Property in Ecosystems Under Stress, the Fourth Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates June 15-19, 1993 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Manila, Philippines en_US


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