Village Land-Use Planning as a Tool for Resolving Land Conflicts in Tanzania
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- The allocation was announced on 1 July 2026 at the Sokoni Mugumu grounds in Serengeti District, Mara Region, by the Deputy Minister for Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development, Kaspar Mmuya.
- The Government of Tanzania has approved TZS 38 billion to survey all 12,333 villages in the country in a bid to end land disputes, with 4,873 villages surveyed to date.
- A recurring driver of these conflicts across rural Tanzania has been the absence of formal, surveyed boundaries for the majority of the country’s more than 12,000 registered villages, leaving boundaries and land rights.
- Samia Suluhu Hassan has in her short period managed to survey 4,873 villages, and she has directed us to survey all the remaining villages within her term,” he stated.
- Mmuya noted that Serengeti District has 30 wards and 78 villages, and assured the district leadership that all had been included in the survey plan within the President’s five-year term.