Specifically, the demographic increase has led to an expansion in cultivated farmland and a reduction in available grazing land for pastoralists that is characterised by competition over dwindling resources. In the far north, the impact of desertification as well as the crisis of energy, which has resulted in deforestation, coupled with climatic uncertainty and lower rainfall have made it more difficult to sustain increasing populations, pushing many farmers and pastoralists with livestock southwards.
Mpina ametoa kauli hiyo akiwa wilayani Handeni ambapo alitumia fursa hiyo kupiga marufuku ukamataji mifugo kiholela huku akimtaja Mkuu wa Wilaya ya Handeni, Gondwe kama kielelezo cha kuwa kiongozi wa kwanza kitaifa anayezifahamu vizuri na kuzisimamia kikamilifu sheria za mifugo na kuleta tija katika ukuaji wa sekta hiyo ikiwemo kuanzisha kijiji cha wafugaji,kumaliza migogoro ya wakulima na wafugaji na watumiaji wengine wa ardhi na utoaji huduma bora za mifugo wakati wote.