[14th Public Workshop / 7th Meeting of Research Unit on Livelihood and Environment] “Conflicts among residents over commons; cultivated area expansion in the seasonal damp ground in Tanzanian farm village.” Kana Yamamoto (JSPS Research fellow / Kyoto University) (June 20, 2013)

Date: June 20, 2013. 15:00-17:00
Venue: Middle-sized seminar room, 3F Inamori Center, Kawabata Campus, Kyoto University

Program

Title: Conflicts among residents over commons; cultivated area expansion in the seasonal damp ground in Tanzanian farm village
Presenter: Kana Yamamoto (JSPS Research fellow/ Kyoto University)

Abstract

Most of the damp grounds distributed over Africa are existed as the commons that local residents commonly use, but recently cultivated area expands and there are tendencies that households start enclosing the damp ground. Turning damp grounds into cultivating fields yields an interest among local residents and often leads to conflicts. In this presentation, showing the process and the background of expansion of cultivating field in the seasonal damp ground in Tanzanian farm village, I clarify the figure of people trying to find the way of using the commons that is suitable for the present conditions while they disputes over the use of surrounding environment.