The Effects Of Climate Change On Land Tenure In Zanzibar Islands
Azzan Rashid
Zanzibar is an archipelago of islands within the United Republic of Tanzania. However these islands have a semi-autonomous authority with its own Government, President and Legislative Assembly independent of the United Republic. The Islands consist of two main islands ? the island of Unguja and that of Pemba with 53 small islets. They have limited land resource for human settlement as well as socio-economic activities. On one hand, land demand for different uses (including for investment, agriculture, livestock keeping and settlements) has been increasing over the years while on the hand, the high rate of urbanization (at about 4.2 percent per annum) increases the land scarcity. Besides, most of the urban land is unplanned, un-surveyed and untitled that resulting to difficulties in land management.
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