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Land Cover Transition in Northern Tanzania
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- Ouedraogo, Issa (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Stockholm Resilience Centre,World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Burkina Faso
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- Barron, Jennie (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Stockholm Resilience Centre,International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Sri Lanka
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Tumbo, Siza D. (author)
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Kahimba, Frederic C. (author)
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- 2015-11-10
- 2016
- English.
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In: Land Degradation and Development. - : Wiley. - 1085-3278 .- 1099-145X. ; 27:3, s. 682-692
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- Land conversion in sub-Saharan Africa has profound biophysical, ecological, political and social consequences for human well-being and ecosystem services. Understanding the process of land cover changes and transitions is essential for good ecosystem management policy that would lead to improved agricultural production, human well-being and ecosystems health. This study aimed to assess land cover transitions in a typical semi-arid degraded agro-ecosystems environment within the Pangani river basin in northern Tanzania. Three Landsat images spanning over 30years were used to detect random and systematic patterns of land cover transition in a landscape dominated by crop and livestock farming. Results revealed that current land cover transition is driven by a systematic process of change dominated by the following: (i) transition from degraded land to sparse bushland (108%); (ii) conversion from sparse bushland to dense bushland in lowland areas (60%); (iii) conversion from bushland to forest (48%); and (iv) conversion from dense bushland to cropland in the highlands (45%). Agricultural lands under water harvesting technology adoption show a high degree of persistence (60-80%) between time slices. This suggests that there is a trend in land-use change towards vegetation improvement in the catchment with a continuous increase in the adoption of water harvesting technologies for crop and livestock farming. This can be interpreted as a sign of agricultural intensification and vegetation regrowth in the catchment.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences (hsv//eng)
- LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER -- Lantbruksvetenskap, skogsbruk och fiske (hsv//swe)
- AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES -- Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- agro-ecological transformation
- water harvesting
- land-use change
- systematic transition
- Tanzania
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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