Making community based environmental impact assessment work: Case study of a Dairy Goat and Root Crop Project in Tanzania

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cg.authorship.typesNot CGIAR developing country instituteen
cg.authorship.typesNot CGIAR international instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationSokoine University of Agricultureen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Albertaen
cg.contributor.affiliationTanzania Wildlife Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.crpLivestock and Fish
cg.contributor.donorInternational Development Research Centreen
cg.coverage.countryTanzania
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2TZ
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Africa
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.urlhttp://isdsnet.com/ijds-v3n4-14.pdfen
cg.issn2168-8662en
cg.issue4en
cg.journalInternational Journal of Development and Sustainabilityen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL BREEDINGen
cg.subject.ilriDAIRYINGen
cg.subject.ilriENVIRONMENTen
cg.subject.ilriGOATSen
cg.subject.ilriIMPACT ASSESSMENTen
cg.subject.ilriSMALL RUMINANTSen
cg.volume3en
dc.contributor.authorKilemo, D.K.en
dc.contributor.authorKerario, I.en
dc.contributor.authorParkins, J.R.en
dc.contributor.authorNindi, S.J.en
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-16T08:35:47Zen
dc.date.available2016-08-16T08:35:47Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/76492
dc.titleMaking community based environmental impact assessment work: Case study of a Dairy Goat and Root Crop Project in Tanzaniaen
dcterms.abstractCommunity Based Environmental Assessment (CBEA) is an approach used to collate information in order to identify and analyze the environmental impacts of planned, on-going and completed community development activities. This study was conducted with four villages in the Kongwa and Mvomero Districts of Tanzania where dairy goats and root crops were introduced as project interventions. The study addressed three key research questions. (1) What are key environmental challenges in the project villages? (2) What are the likely environmental impacts from this project? (3) What could be the community-perceived mitigation and enhancement measures for such impacts? Participatory appraisal methods including focus group discussions, participatory village resource mapping, transect walks and pair wise ranking were used in the field research. Research revealed several environmental challenges and depicted a number of environmental impacts (both negative and positive) including shortage of pasture, deforestation, conflicts between farmers and pastoralists and loss of biodiversity. In contrast to conventional regulatory environmental assessments that are required for larger-scale industrial projects in many countries, this study offers experiences from a small-scale development project where environmental impacts are assessed. Such methods could be applied to other small-scale development initiatives where positive or negative environmental impacts can be enhanced or ameliorated.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationKilemo, D.K., Kerario, I., Parkins, J.R. and Nindi, S.J. 2014. Making community based environmental impact assessment work: Case study of a Dairy Goat and Root Crop Project in Tanzania. International Journal of Development and Sustainability 3(4):767–783.en
dcterms.extentp. 767-783en
dcterms.issued2014
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.subjectgoatsen
dcterms.subjectdairiesen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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