Abstract
This paper used the perceptions of local leaders at a ward level to assess the governance of urban agriculture (UA) in Kinondoni Municipality-Dar Es Salaam City in Tanzania. Unstructured interviews were conducted with 24 local leaders involved in the day to day governance of UA in the Municipality. During the interviews, the local leaders were requested to narrate their perceptions on the governance of UA in the Municipality based on three criteria namely leadership quality, infrastructure provision and farmers’ land right. In general, the leaders had the opinion that in the current settings there were limited efforts and plans to support UA in Kinondoni Municipality as assessed using the three criteria mentioned above. Key words: Governance, urban agriculture, local leaders, ward agricultural officers, Tanzania.
Highlights
Urban agriculture (UA) has been known to be both a strategy for dealing with poverty and a means to ensure sustainability (Mlozi, 1997, Foeken, 2005)
The study intended to respond to questions with the nature of why, how and what with the view of extracting meaning from the opinion of the local leaders who are involved in the day to day promotion, coordination and management of UA in Kinondoni Municipality
This section reports and discusses the results of the evaluation of the governance in Kinondoni Municipality based on the identified criteria
Summary
This paper used the perceptions of local leaders at a ward level to assess the governance of urban agriculture (UA) in Kinondoni Municipality-Dar Es Salaam City in Tanzania. Unstructured interviews were conducted with 24 local leaders involved in the day to day governance of UA in the Municipality. The local leaders were requested to narrate their perceptions on the governance of UA in the Municipality based on three criteria namely leadership quality, infrastructure provision and farmers’ land right. The leaders had the opinion that in the current settings there were limited efforts and plans to support UA in Kinondoni Municipality as assessed using the three criteria mentioned above
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