The paper aims to analyse the changes in sustainable living
in Mtwara Rural District, Tanzania, by assessing the effects of gas extraction
operations. A household survey was conducted between July and October 2020,
whereby a questionnaire was administered to the household heads who were
sampled for the study. Key informant interviews (KIIs) and Focus Group
Discussions (FGDs) were recorded, transcribed, and analysed together with field
observations. The results show that gas extraction has had an adverse impact on
changes in livelihood activities in general in the study area. Local
communities residing closer to the gas extraction plant had higher livelihood
diversity, especially in sea-shells collection, farming and farm wage labour
and carpentry, compared to villages away from the gas processing plant. In
order to bring equitable livelihood changes and outcomes among households, it
is recommended to the Local Government Authority and non-governmental
organizations involved in promoting livelihood improvement through extractive
investments to promote local communities households ownership of resources by
allowing them to have more access and control of their natural resources
including gas, land as well as addressing the constraints for household
residing close to extractive investment operations. Hence, incorporating those
changes, analysing their impact on households' well-being, and designing
various coping strategies for mitigating such events would probably shed more
light on poverty reduction and promotion of sustainable livelihoods in rural
areas affected by gas extraction.
Author(s) Details
Beston Musa Musoma
Department of Development Finance and Management Studies, Institute of
Rural Development Planning, P.O. Box 138, Dodoma, Tanzania.
Mwabless N Malila
Department of Policy Planning and Management, College of
Social Sciences and Humanities, Sokoine University of Agriculture, P.O. Box
3035, Morogoro, Tanzania.
Francis Naftal Mbowe
Institute of Judicial Administration, Lushoto, P.O. Box 20, Lushoto,
Tanzania.
Please see the book here :- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/nicass/v5/2581
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