Land Access, Livelihood Strategies and Rural Household Well-being in Mvomero District, Tanzania

Abstract: Understanding the influence of specific livelihood variables on a household’s well-being provides a crucial basis for effective focus of poverty intervention, and consequently wiser resource allocation. This paper analyses the influence of land access, livelihood strategies (LS) and selected demographic characteristics on household well-being status (HWBS) in Mvomero District, Tanzania. The study adopted a cross-sectional research design whereby quantitative data were collected once from 267 randomly selected households in 8 villages. Data analysis was done using SPSS. Unlike the hypothesis, multinomial logistic regression results demonstrated that per capita land size and location have a positive significant influence (p < 0.05) on HWBS. Likewise, unlike the hypothesis, three more variables including exclusive farming, number of dependents and distance to farms were confirmed to have a negative significant influence (p < 0.05) on well-being. It is concluded that though per capita .... https://journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/JNRD/article/view/739

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

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• Bibliographic citation: Land Access, Livelihood Strategies and Rural Household Well-being in Mvomero District, Tanzania ; volume:6 ; year:2016 ; Journal of natural resources and development ; 6 (2016)

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• Creator: Mwesiga Lyatuu, Patricia ; Kalisti Urassa, Justin

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• DOI: 10.5027/jnrd.v6i0.05
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022053111592572225678
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.