The Impact Of Cloves Production For The Sustainable Livelihood Of People Of Pemba: A Case Study Of Gando Village

ABSTRACT

The study was designed to assess the impact of cloves production for the sustainable livelihood of people of Pemba. Generally, the study intended to analyse the impact of cloves production in area of study, to identify contribution of cloves production in livelihood of people, to examine towards the problems of cloves production in livelihood of people of Pemba. The study involved 90 respondents who were selected using simple random sampling. Primary data were collected using interview from the key informants, observation, and focus group discussion. Secondary data were also collected from published and unpublished documents from various sources and government officials. Data processing and analysis was done through SPSS computer program and use of qualitative data analysis techniques whereby descriptive statistics used to obtain frequency and percentage. This study focuses on cloves production in Zanzibar by analyzing the impact of cloves production for the sustainable livelihood. From the study it was found that participation in cloves production comprised both sex. it was also found that cloves production has been fluctuating for several years, cloves are mostly used for food spice, trade and medicine and income from cloves plays a significant role in contribution to the socio-economic development of the people in the area of the study. Also the Identified factors hindering cloves production activities were lack of awareness, low production, and lack of reliable market for both producers and traders and poor physical infrastructural systems. Therefore, in order to improve the performance of cloves production for the livelihood of people there is a need for creating awareness, capacity building and facilitation to improve capital to acquire modern cloves production system. This will contribute better livelihood of people in the village concerned and government at large.