Tanzania: Paying local communities not to convert grasslands to crops

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2007-12-05
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In Tanzania, villages receive communal economic benefits for maintaining traditional pastoral activities on grazing lands rather than converting these grasslands to arable agriculture.

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Wildlife, Cattle, Payments for environmental services, Grazing, Community participation, Pasture management, Grasslands, Conservation, Conservation incentives, Pastoralism, Livestock, PES, Tanzania, Ungulates, Elephants, Maasai, Land conversion, Ecosystem
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