Land Use Conflicts between Farmers and Pastoralists in Mkoka and Songambele Wards in Kongwa District, Tanzania: Causes, Impacts, and Resolutions | Chapter 5 | Recent Trends in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 9

 Land use conflicts are complex disputes that donate negative social and business-related impacts within the various peoples. Land use conflict resolution still need further research by way of various mindsets of people as political whole. In this paper, the issues of land conflicts between producers and pastoralists in Mkoka and Songambele wards in Kongwa District, Tanzania which take care of lead to reduced financial development are inspected and the causes and effects of land use conflicts are defined. Poor land governance, unfit of land use plans, inadequate land procedures, land tenure danger, baseness are cited as being with of the main causes fuelling land use conflicts in Mkoka and Songambele wards in Kongwa District, Tanzania. Pastoralists traverse an area the district accompanying large herds of starving livestock being next or after pastures and water, the bovine animals are randomly surpassed intofarms where they rummage on whatever crops that grant permission be in sight. Angered peasants frequently take the law into their hands and fight the pastoralists. Armed fights explode resulting to human and animals raised on a farm deaths, demolition of crops and homesteads.  The National Land Policy (NLP) is a key instrument for farming and administration, land use preparation, conflict determination, and land tenure safety. However, lack of land use plans in the rural extents, and the outdated National Land Policy of 1995 brought focus of the recurring land conflicts 'tween farmers and pastoralists. This paper specifies in what way or manner Mediation-Arbitration (MED-ARB) approach can be secondhand in solving land conflicts middle from two points farmers and pastoralists. The pieces of advice have been created on this issue, and authors propose MED-ARB as high-quality habit to put in place tenable measures of land conflicts in Mkoka and Songambele wards, Kongwa district.

Author(s) Details:

F. Mbonde,
Institute of Rural Development Planning, P.O. Box 138, Dodoma, Tanzania.

N. Kavana,
St. Francis University College of Health and Allied Sciences, P.O. Box 175, Ifakara, Morogoro, Tanzania

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