Dhr. R.L. (Romanus) Dimoso: “Aantasting van natuurlijke hulpbronnen en welvaart in huishoudens: De Tanzaniaanse South Pare hooglanden”

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12 jun 2009 13:30
Onderdeel: Wageningen Universiteit
Locatie: Aula, gebouw 362, Gen. Foulkesweg 1, Wageningen
Organisatie: Wageningen Universiteit
Promotor: prof.dr. G. Antonides (Economie van consumenten en huishoudens)

 Deze studie presenteert een empirische analyse van effecten welke gebaseerd is op cross-sectionele data verzameld in 2006/2007 bij huishoudens in het landelijk gebied van de South Pare Highlands in Tanzania. De studie is gebaseerd op vier hypothesen, waarbij iedere hypothese de basis vormt voor een empirisch hoofdstuk in dit proefschrift.

Samenvatting;

The rural South Pare highlands in Tanzania experience a deteriorating environmental situation. Of particular importance is the disappearance of forests and woodlands. The consequences are declining amounts and reliability of rainfall, declining amounts of water levels and loss of biodiversity. Deterioration of environmental resources increases costs of collecting environmental products, which in many respects have no feasible close substitutes. One of the major components of the increased costs is labour time allocated by household members to collecting environmental products and/or grazing activities.

This study presents an empirical investigation of the impact of this reallocation of intra-household labour resources on livelihood for different members of a household. We used cross-sectional data. To analyse how variations in environmental degradation affect intra-household labour allocation, three types of areas were distinguished: severely-degraded, medium-degraded, and non-degraded environments.

Our findings show that (1) the environmental products collection and/or grazing activities were gender biased with husbands specializing in grazing while wives and children fetching water and fuel wood; and labour time allocation was significantly influenced by environmental condition; (2) environmental degradation was limiting the production and consumption potentials in the area and a limited adoption of agricultural modernization further aggravated this problem; (3) factors like school crowdedness, illness, bad weather, poor school quality, and school absenteeism due to street vending contributed negatively to the probability of primary school attainment for children apart from the environmental degradation situation; and (4) subjective welfare and well-being of household members were affected by the quality of the environment.

This study contributes to the understanding of the situation and setting proper measures towards solving the problems of sustainable development, poverty alleviation, environmental policy, and human capital formation in South Pare.
Titel proefschrift: “Environmental Degradation and Intra-Household Welfare: The Case of the Tanzanian Rural South Pare Highlands”
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