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• TITLE: Farming systems and crop-livestock land use consensus. Tanzanian perspectives

  AUTHORS: Dunstan Gabriel Msuya

  KEYWORDS: Farming Systems; Pastoralism; Land Use Choices; Farmer-Herder Conflicts

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Ecology, Vol.3 No.7, November 26, 2013

  ABSTRACT: Agriculture is an important source of economic survival of rural populations, and with great power for poverty reduction in the economy. For this reason farming systems that are most efficient have to be sought. This paper explores crop-based and pastoralism farming systems under conflicting land use relations. Incidences of violent conflicts are highlighted, which usually assume a depoliticised expression as inter-group conflicts. Competition for resources (land and water) is an important reason for such conflict, but the role of the state in protection of property rights is also advocated to nurture rivalry. Very wide difference in conception, that to the pastoralists property is cattle, land is common property open to herds, while to crop farmers land is property, which is divided between households, complicates the conflict resolution. State bias exists in the protection of property rights. Mechanisms for the state bias arebriefly cited. This paper suggests a farming systems educational approach as a way to reduce environmentally stressful practice, and strengthen the study of administrative regulation that harmonizes equity in conflicting land use.