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Community Rights and Land Use Policies in Tanzania: The Case of Pastoral Communities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

J. T. Mwaikusa
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The statement above is an admission of failure, or neglect, to design a policy for livestock production and development. The admission appears t o be almost contradictory. Nyerere's leadership of Tanzania had its landmarks, the most indelible of which is probably the Arusha Declaration with its particularly heavy bias towards rural development in its policy objectives. Yet that rural bias conspicuously excluded the role of pastoral communities and their potential in the development of Tanzania's rural economy. The pastoralists are not a majority but constitute a substantial portion of the population. They are entitled, as of right, to proportionate attention by national policies, as well as access to national resources, especially land, proportionate to their needs and potential, just like the cultivators. But government policies in Tanzania have marginalized pastoralists and sometimes even their rights and their very presence have been ignored.

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Journal of African Law , Volume 37 , Issue 2: LAW AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN AFRICA , Autumn 1993 , pp. 144 - 163
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1993

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