Land Degradation and Desertification

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is a full professor of rural land-use planning in protected area bionetworks. He obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Dar es Salaam in 1991. He did his MSc at ITC in the Netherlands in 1995 and his PhD at Greenwich University in the United Kingdom in 2006. For more than three decades, Professor Kaswamila has worked as an Agricultural Research Officer at Mlingano Agricultural Research Institute and a Don at Mweka Wildlife College and later at the University of Dodoma. Professor Kaswamila has published widely in areas of land-use planning, land management, agriculture, poverty and livelihood, biodiversity conservation, and community conservation. He is currently a Professot at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Research