Rangeland Society of Tanzania (RST) Scholarly Output

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This sub-community hosted at SUA brings together conference proceedings and other scholarly outputs and works presented during the Scientific Conferences of the Rangeland Society of Tanzania. It serves as a platform for sharing knowledge and research on healthy rangelands, sustainable livelihoods, natural resource management, pastoral systems, environmental conservation, and economic development.

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Browsing Rangeland Society of Tanzania (RST) Scholarly Output by Subject "Climate change"

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    Rangeland management practices in changing environment: implications for land use and climate change in selected African countries
    (Rangeland Society of Tanzania (RST), 2023-04) Kilemo,Dominico Benedicto
    Rangeland Management entails rangeland resource management for improved animal production and other ecosystem services. While Africa is endowed with spectacular rangelands which support biodiversity, animal production and people's livelihoods, they face pressure from anthropogenic activities such as overgrazing which leads to land degradation and conversion of rangelands into other land uses. Furthermore, the quality of pastures fed to livestock has implications on feed efficiency and methane gas emission. Rangeland management interventions which enhance the carbon sequestration function of rangelands and reduce enteric methane emission from livestock have a potential of mitigating global warming and climate change. This paper reviews different rangeland management approaches for animal production and assesses their contribution to climate change in some African countries. Such approaches include (i) Community Based Natural Resource Management; (ii) Land and water use planning; (iii) marketing and alternative income; and(iv) wildlife and nature tourism. The findings suggest that, the adoption of SRM approaches is very low with less than 25 cases across Africa. This suggests that the existing SRM interventions have had little contribution to climate change mitigation. The 74 implementation of approaches such as village land use planning, legalization of the customary land right to grazing areas, establishment of mini ranches and the establishment of improved pasture species with low GHG emission will significantly contribute to sustainable range management and climate change mitigation in Africa.
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    Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change; implications for policy and practice in Tanzania.
    (Rangeland Society of Tanzania (RST), 2022) Sangeda Anthony Zozimus
    Climate change has significant socio economic impacts in Tanzania, in particular through floods, droughts and changes in rainfall pattern. Most literature on climate change impacts and vulnerability, report the idea that countries, economic sectors, social groups and individuals differ in their degree of vulnerability to climate change. This is partly true due to the fact that changes in temperature and precipitation occur unevenly and that impacts are unevenly distributed. Drivers of vulnerability inTanzania include both socio-economic (population and conflicts) and biophysical (infrastructure, water resources, soil erosion & land degradation, pest & diseases). It is assumed that many regions will be capable of adapting to climate change, but that poorer ones will face difficulties. It is therefore argued that the study of adaptation to climate change should begin with the study of social and economic vulnerability. In this case, vulnerability and adaptation are important issues in climate change debate. This is because always vulnerability is defined in terms of capacity to adapt, and capacity to respond to stress is a starting point for climate change impact analysis. Climate vulnerability and adaptation carry important lessons for assessing Tanzania’s preparedness for human induced climate change, and an understanding of climate variability provides important context for discussions in this study. Decreasing the vulnerability of socio-economic sectors and ecological systems to natural climate variability through a more informed choice of policies, practices and technologies will, in many cases, reduce the long-term vulnerability of these systems to climate change. Based on these issues, literature review was done to prepare this paper that provide an overview of vulnerability status and adaptation initiatives in order to inform policy and practice in the country.