Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism

This article explores the link between the accessibility of marine tourism resources and sustainable livelihoods in Tanzanian communities, guided by the sustainable livelihood’s framework. Data was gathered through convenience sampling from Kilwa and Bagamoyo's coastal populations between March and April 2025. Out of 280 distributed questionnaires, 161 (73.9%) were analyzed using SPSS and SEM (AMOS). Results indicated that access to various types of livelihood assets, including financial, human, social, and physical resources, significantly benefits sustainable livelihoods in these coastal areas. Stakeholders should aim to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDG 14, which emphasizes the importance of marine tourism resources for coastal communities. Promoting access and sustainable use of these resources can aid conservation efforts and sustainable development. The study offers strategic recommendations for government and private sector investment to ensure equitable access to ocean resources for coastal communities.

Economic valuation of ecosystems is increasingly being recognized as an important exercise to inform sustainable utilization and conservation of natural assets. It helps in planning and establishing fair profit margins that accrue either directly or indirectly from the consumptive and non-consumptive uses of ecosystem goods and services. This paper is based on a study which estimated the economic values of tourist hunting blocks (HBs) in Tanzania using the Analytic Multicriteria Valuation Method (AMUVAM). The study used a sample size of 12 out of 24 vacant hunting blocks which were to be auctioned to potential hunting companies in December 2022. The economic values of HBs were estimated using the time horizon of 10 years (the mean tenure for winning company). The results show that the economic values ranged from USD 6,215,588 to USD 653,470,695 per hunting block and the Existence Value (EV) constituted about 19% of the Total Economic Value (TEV). EV ranged from USD 632,210 to USD 125,147,285. The study underscores the need for decisions to allocate ecosystems, such as HBs, to both direct and indirect uses, to be guided by a though understanding of their values. We further recommend building the capacity of staff charged with the role of managing and allocating uses of these ecosystems to enable them undertake economic valuation of ecosystems using both simple and more robust analytical tools, such as the GIS, relational databases, and worldwide websites based tools, like InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Environmental Services and Tradeoffs), ARIES (Artificial Intelligence for Ecosystem Services), and Co$ting Nature.

Restoration of degraded natural areas to enhance species conservation is widely gaining pace; however, effort assessing restoration impact on the animal community particularly in restored African forests is still rare. We used a capture‐mark‐recapture method to trap rodents and to assess effect of restoration and ecological covariates on the rodent abundance and community structure in Lulanda Forest Reserve, southern Tanzania, 20 years after restoration. We found five species in the restored corridor and three in the natural fragments, withGrammomys dolichurusthe most abundant in the former andPraomys delectorumin the latter forest type. Species diversity was highest in the restored corridor and lowest in the natural forest, supporting earlier studies in this forest reserve. Further, the rodent communities were broadly similar by >55% between studied sites but showed strong association with local habitat characteristics in the restored corridor, suggesting the importance of restoration on reassembling the small‐mammal communities. Our regression models revealed number of saplings and shrub cover were the strongest predictors of the rodent abundance across the study sites. Despite the rodent colonization of the secondary forest, we found most measured biophysical properties significantly lower in the restored corridor, suggesting that the secondary forest is still far from attaining conditions of the old‐growth natural fragment at its second decade of succession. Future monitoring to see how other animal taxa recolonize these forests will increase our knowledge on how the animal communities assemble in the restored habitats following disturbance threats.

ABSTRACT This study explores the motivations for rural tourism and segments its market based on the push and pull motivational forces by drawing largely from international tourists visiting villages on the slopes of Kilimanjaro Mountain in Tanzania. By applying questionnaire survey and critical segmentation algorithm, the study provides empirical evidence that rural tourists in African villages are motivated by nostalgia for rural cultural life. Other motivations include relaxing with relatives and friends, learning about local farming methods, socialising with the villagers, enjoying nature and contributing to the community. The clustering of the motivations generated the four segments of multi-experiences, authenticity-learners, relaxing with friends and relatives, visiting farms and nature seekers and casual segments. The study argues that rural tourism market is heterogeneous and plural. Recommendations for practitioners and for future research are provided.

Online shopping is the current dotcom era for businesses to achieve a competitive edge. The emergence of Smartphones and relative improvements in the Information and Technology (IT) infrastructures among other factors, have triggered youths in developing countries to shop online. Various studies have shown reasons for people to shop online but less has been researched about the youths’ intention to shop online at higher education institutions of learning, such as Makerere University Business School (MUBS). Hence, to bridge the knowledge gap, this study aimed at examining factors influencing African Youths at higher education institutions to shop online, in the context of MUBS in Uganda. Questionnaires were distributed among the youths via online survey. The quantitative data was collected from 71 respondents and analysed using PLS-SEM assisted with SmartPLS 3. The findings revealed that there is a significant relationship between hedonic and satisfaction among youths shopping line (<em>p = 0.00</em>), and there was also a significant relationship between subjective norms and satisfaction among youths shopping line (<em>p = 0.02</em>). The results show that key factors which trigger the youths’ intention to satisfactorily shop online in Uganda’s higher education institution are hedonic and subjective norms.

&lt;p&gt;Online shopping is the current dotcom era for businesses to achieve a competitive edge. The emergence of Smartphones and relative improvements in the Information and Technology (IT) infrastructures among other factors, have triggered youths in developing countries to shop online. Various studies have shown reasons for people to shop online but less has been researched about the youths&rsquo; intention to shop online at higher education institutions of learning, such as Makerere University Business School (MUBS). Hence, to bridge the knowledge gap, this study aimed at examining factors influencing African Youths at higher education institutions to shop online, in the context of MUBS in Uganda. Questionnaires were distributed among the youths via online survey. The quantitative data was collected from 71 respondents and analyzed using PLS-SEM assisted with SmartPLS 3. The findings revealed that there is a significant relationship between hedonic and satisfaction among youths shopping line (&lt;em&gt;p = 0.00&lt;/em&gt;), and there was also a significant relationship between subjective norms and satisfaction among youths shopping line (&lt;em&gt;p = 0.02&lt;/em&gt;). The results show that key factors which trigger the youths&rsquo; intention to satisfactorily shop online in Uganda&rsquo;s higher education institution are hedonic and subjective norms.&lt;/p&gt;

SummaryReducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation plus the conservation of forest carbon stocks, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD+) requires information on land-use and land-cover changes (LULCCs) and carbon emission trends from the past to the present and into the future. Here, we use the results of participatory scenario development in Tanzania to assess the potential interacting impacts on carbon stock, biodiversity and water yield of alternative scenarios where REDD+ is or is not effectively implemented by 2025, a green economy (GE) scenario and a business as usual (BAU) scenario, respectively. Under the BAU scenario, LULCCs will cause 296 million tonnes of carbon (MtC) national stock loss by 2025, reduce the extent of suitable habitats for endemic and rare species (mainly in encroached protected mountain forests) and change water yields. In the GE scenario, national stock loss decreases to 133 MtC. In this scenario, consistent LULCC impacts occur within small forest patches with high carbon density, water catchment capacity and biodiversity richness. Opportunities for maximizing carbon emission reductions nationally are largely related to sustainable woodland management, but also contain trade-offs with biodiversity conservation and changes in water availability.