“…Narrowing our understanding to Tanzania's past socio-economic trends and particularly, increase in population density, villagization program, and the recent global economic and technical changes, farmers' adaptive strategies such as high stocking rates (resulting in overgrazing), excess cropping, shifting agriculture and so on have been linked variably with land degradation and soil erosion problems (see Christiansson and Kilula, 1996;Shishira and Pyton, 1996;Aune, 1995;Kaihura, 1991;Wiig et al, 2001). Therefore farmers are currently faced not only by stochastic rainfall pattern but also accelerated soil erosion problem.…”