The need for socio-economic and environmental indicators to monitor degraded ecosystem rehabilitation: A case study from Tanzania

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dc.contributor.authorOgle, R. Brianen
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialKondoa Closed Areaen
dc.coverage.spatialTanzaniaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:09:23Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:09:23Zen
dc.date.issued2001en
dc.description.abstractThis paper documents the events leading to the imminent collapse of an attempt to rehabilitate a degraded ecosystem in central Tanzania, focusing on the consequences of the failure to systematically monitor socio-economic and environmental indicators. A decision was taken in 1979 to evict all grazing livestock from a 1200 km2 semi-arid area, the so-called Kondoa Closed Area, in central Tanzania due to their destructive effect on contour ridges and bunds that had been constructed in an attempt to arrest land degradation. Although the closure was successful in that the vegetation quickly regenerated and soil erosion was arrested, the evictions resulted in severe hardship for the agro-pastoralists in the area. As a result, it was decided a decade later to allow the reintroduction of cattle on condition that they were totally confined and were of improved dairy breeds. Although performance and economic data have generally been positive, the top-down approach to the introduction of the cows, the lack of baseline data, followed by the withdrawal of external funding, have resulted in increased illegal free-grazing and the near collapse of the attempt to convert a degraded ecosystem to sustainable use. It is concluded that the probable collapse of the ecosystem in the Kondoa Closed Area is a result of the initial top-down approach to the introduction and implementation of the project, inadequate monitoring of socio-economic and environmental indicators, and ultimately to the withdrawal of donor funding.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier658en
dc.identifier.citationAgriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 87(2): 151-157en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-8809(01)00275-4en
dc.identifier.issn0167-8809en
dc.identifier.other658_CR_00006.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/65664en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2001 by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.en
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectEcosystem managementen
dc.subjectHumid zonesen
dc.subjectPlanningen
dc.subjectSoil erosionen
dc.subjectEnvironmental impactsen
dc.subjectLand use planningen
dc.subjectTropical zonesen
dc.subjectProgram planningen
dc.subjectLand use managementen
dc.subjectPasture managementen
dc.subjectConservation strategyen
dc.subjectConservationen
dc.subjectHabitat destructionen
dc.subjectResource management toolsen
dc.subjectNatural resource managementen
dc.subjectRange managementen
dc.subjectLivestocken
dc.subjectFarming systemsen
dc.subjectTanzaniaen
dc.subjectEnvironmental indicatorsen
dc.subjectSocioeconomic indicatorsen
dc.subjectEcosystem Governanceen
dc.titleThe need for socio-economic and environmental indicators to monitor degraded ecosystem rehabilitation: A case study from Tanzaniaen
dc.title.serialAgriculture, Ecosystems and Environmenten
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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