Baseline Survey Report: Case study of Uluguru and Usambara mountains (Bigwa, Tangeni, Peko Misegese, Mashewa and Misalai villages)

Madulu, Ruth; Chalamila, Betty (2004). Baseline Survey Report: Case study of Uluguru and Usambara mountains (Bigwa, Tangeni, Peko Misegese, Mashewa and Misalai villages) (Unpublished) Bern, Switzerland: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)

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Agriculture is the back borne of the economy of Tanzania and its main objective is to
ensure food security and eradication of rural poverty through the promotion of production
systems, technologies and practices that are environmental sound (Tanzania National
Environmental Policy, 1999). However, this has not been achieved due to rapid land
degradation, which has consequently lead to massive soil loss, decline in crop yields,
disruption of water resources and the destruction of the natural resources in general.
This report highlights the extent to which agricultural related activities like agronomic and
cultural practices such as use of fire for preparation of farms and cutting of trees to meet
villagers’ needs have devastating effect on the quality of the environment. Besides these
observed difficulties this paper argued that as the survival, well being and future of the
Uluguru and Usambara people it is essential to provide continuous training to farmers,
so that they know how best to continue farming and harvesting forest products on a
sustainable basis without causing much harm to the environment. Most of all this paper
recommends the introduction of Ngolo cultivation technology on steep slopes of
Usambara and Uluguru mountains in order to enhance the conservation of the
environment.

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