Sustainable Natural Resource Management (NRM) and Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)
Situation Analysis
- Annually, 450,000 forests are cleared in Tanzania for agriculture, fuel wood and charcoal, lumbering, and mining
- Over-grazing by livestock has led to increased soil erosion and desertification
- Tanzania’s human population is 67 million (5th largest in Africa) with an annual growth rate of 3%. Tanzania’s population is projected to exceed 100 million people in the next 10 years (by 2024)
- Both human (3% annual growth rate) and livestock (5% agr) are experiencing population explosion
- About 42% of land in Tanzania is under protected forest and wildlife reserve
- Competition for land and water resources has sometimes led to conflict among rural communities
- Climate change has exacerbated pressure on land and water resources
- According to the 2019/20 Agriculture Sample Census, only 2.5% of farmland was irrigated, which was below the Sub-Saharan Africa average of 5%