| Herkunftsinstitution: | University of Dar es Salaam |
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| Zeit am Institut: | 2026 |
| Förderung: | IEG Senior Research Fellowship |
| Forschungsthema: | Opportunities and challenges in the conservation sector in postcolonial Tanzania, 1961-2025 |
| "Tanzania has been the best destination of many tourists in Africa and the world at large because of its natural resources (forest, wild life and historical heritages). Tanzania’s natural resources carry a historical legacy way back to pre-colonial, Germany and British colorizations. The task of keeping these natural resources, however, has taken external and internal resources. The world has put pressure on the state on keeping the natural resources for posterity. The government has taken heed by having up to now-2026, 40% of its land is under conservation purposes. While population increase and re-claiming the ancestral land taken in the guise of colonialism has been a pressure from the adjacent communities in the state is looking on the same resources to increase funds in the public coffers. Because of such conflicting interests in the natural resources some of the sectors have got priority while others have less priority and, therefore, this fellowship will be used to navigate historically, the ups and downs in the forestry sector whereby the sector has received much encroachment by the adjacent communities. While in the natural forests peasants and pastoralists have encroached to increase their farming plots and pastures areas respectively, in the plantation forests peasants have encroached the extension areas and/or they put court injunctions to repeal the manner their lands were taken by the state. The fellowship will allow the senior scholar to navigate these challenges and where possible put forward the possible mitigation possibilities within the ambit of the state actors. Above, all, while in the natural forests is where wild animals live, the fellowship will allow the scholar navigate the challenges borne out of wild animals as well. The main argument in this thesis will be the adjacent communities needs attention than being ignored." |
