Determinants of rural land use conflicts in west district-Zanzibar
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Date
2014
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Sokoine University of Agriculture
Abstract
This study was conducted in West District Zanzibar to assess the determinants of
rural land use conflict. Specifically, the study identified the prevailing land use
conflicts and types of land tenure systems existing, as well as assessing the influence
of demographic, socio-economic and institutional arrangements on land use conflicts.
A cross section research design was adopted with 125 household’s respondents. Data
were collected through questionnaires and key informant interview. Binary logistic
regression model and descriptive statistics were used to analyse data. The result
identified live main types of land use conflicts prevailing in the study area namely
government and community, community and investors, farmers and pastoralists.
villagers and villagers as well as community and military camps, whereby land
tenure system has changed from communal status to individual/private ownership;
lease hold has replaced customary freehold and other form of interests. Three
fundamental factors mainly demographic, socio-economic, policy and institutional
arrangement were identified to have direct influence on land use conflicts in the
study area. The result of logistic analysis reveal that age (p<0.05), land utilization
(p< 0.05), land size (p<0.05), land conflicts panel (p<0.05) and household size
(p<0.05) had positive significant influence on land use conflicts. The study conclude
that demography, socioeconomic as well as policy and institution arrangement are
the main determinants of the existing land use conflicts in the study area where the
existing weak institutions made local communities compete for land resource without
being regulated. The study further recommends that land use conflict needs
establishment of strong institutional organs and committed leadership in all levels, in
order to provide enabling environment and transform it into practice so as to achieve
desirable objectives.
Description
Master of Arts Dissertation in Rural Development
Keywords
Land use conflicts, Land tenure systems, West district-Zanzibar