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Assessment of forest cover change under different forest tenure regimes in Ngitili management systems in Meatu district, Tanzania

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dc.contributor.author Manyanda, B.J
dc.contributor.author Kashaigili, J.J
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-22T13:13:53Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-22T13:13:53Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.identifier.uri http://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/5078
dc.description Journal article en_US
dc.description.abstract Deforestation and forest degradation are tied to a complex array of socioeconomic and political factors. Quantifying the amount of amount of forest is key to ensure that appropriate management practices and policies are in place to combat deforestation and forest degradation. Despite the fact that forestland tenure changes from private and communal to state ownership occurred in Ngitili management systems in Meatu district Tanzania, little has been done to evaluate its impacts on forest cover. The objective of this study was to assess the forest cover changes under different tenure regimes in Ngitili management system. Landsat imagery of 1986 and 2000 were used in this study and data were analyzed using QGIS software. Results show that open land, grassland, bushland and open forest were the dominant forest classes under private and communal tenure regime while semi closed forest dominated most of the Ngitili area under the state tenure regime. The study concludes by supporting the alternative hypothesis that, forest land tenure changes have significant impacts on forest cover. The study recommends that, a study is needed to assess the impact of devolution which occurred in 2002 on forest cover change. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Tanzania Journal of Forestry and Nature Conservation en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Vol 91, No. 2(2022) pp120-131;
dc.subject Ngitili en_US
dc.subject HASHI en_US
dc.subject Deforestation en_US
dc.subject Private tenure en_US
dc.subject State tenure en_US
dc.title Assessment of forest cover change under different forest tenure regimes in Ngitili management systems in Meatu district, Tanzania en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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