Using a comprehensive data set from surveys carried out over the period 2004–2010 in the region of Kagera in Tanzania, the article examines whether households whose members had migrated to a unimodal region of the country experienced a reduction in their vulnerability to expected poverty (VEP) relative to households whose members had migrated to a bimodal region, which was affected by the drought.
In this paper, evidence from a small-scale case study of a flood-prone informal settlement in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania was presented to examines the gendered dynamics of climate change adaptation in a rapidly urbanizing area of the global South.
Using data collected through a cross-sectional survey conducted between December 2009 and January 2010 covering 240 households in six villages of Morogoro region, Tanzania, the aim of this paper is (1) to analyse the micro-level drivers of poverty and vulnerability among smallholder farmers in a changing climate and (2) to improve the availability of micro-level empirical information on local perceptions on and adaptations to climate change, and other socio-economic drivers of poverty and vulnerability for site-specific and generic policy implications in similar settings.
Using the 2008–2009 Tanzania National Panel Survey (TZNPS), the paper investigated the effect of drought or floods, crop diseases, and severe water shortages on inter-district migration in the United Republic of Tanzania, while controlling for several socio-demographic variables.
The project was launched in 1998 and is now operating in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Activities in Swaziland will begin this year. The LinKS project is a regional effort in Southern Africa aimed at raising awareness about how rural men and women use and manage biological diversity. The project seeks to help development practitioners recognize that farmers have knowledge, practices and skills that are often highly sustainable and respectful of the natural ecosystems they depend on for their food and livelihoods.
Population growth and internal migration, when coupled with changes in land tenure, is exerting increasing pressure on the environment and natural resources in Tanzania. This paper examines population dynamics affecting seven protected areas, and highlights factors such as poverty, alienation from land and resources, drought, and lack of local participation in conservation activities that are currently hindering conservation efforts in the country. (Author's Abstract)
The author argues that unregulated peri-urban development in Dar es Salaam is likely to continue for the foreseeable future due to increased rural-urban migration.
Based on a case study from the Usangu Plains, Tanzania, a receiving area for displaced herders and cultivators from elsewhere in Tanzania, this paper investigates the links between migration and ecological change by focusing on environmentally-displaced populations.
The author examines competition over natural resource use and poverty eradication strategies. Among the factors considered is population growth.
Larsson explores livelihood and child bearing decision making at the household level. Attention is given to matters of growing population pressure and market integration.
