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As seen, there are substantial variations in the population in terms access to labour.The education level is generally low in the whole area, thus having little effects onincome. Households in Lunenzi, had a significantly higher worker/consumer ratio anda greater tendency to hire labour. In this respect we anticipate that the agriculturalincome in Lunenzi could be higher. However, incomes are linked to a complex mix ofdifferent attributes, with access to natural capital being one of them. Following this,we now turn to access to natural capital.7.1.2 Natural capital – landAll respondents except one have land to cultivate. An average household had 2,28 haof land. On top of this, most households accessed forest land for fuel wood, fodderand NTFPs. Richer households owned significantly more land but no such differencesare observed between villages (Table 13), although the households in Lunenzi tendedto have more land.Households with more land could afford to leave some land pieces to fallow wherewood fuel could be collected from such. Trees are used to mark boundaries, createshadow and fruit and also offer other environmental services. If needed, such treescould be taken down to produce e.g. charcoal and timber. Agricultural land thus has tobe acknowledged not solely for its functionality to grow crops, but also as a source ofenergy and fodder. Forestlands can also be converted into agricultural lands. In table7.3 and table 7.4 we illustrate this by looking into how long agricultural lands havestayed as such, which also gives an idea about the deforestation rate. By this we seethat about 10 % of the cultivated land has been cleared for agriculture over the last 10years.Table 15: Land cleared for Agriculture by location, Kilosa District, Tanzania,2010Mean: Lunenzi % Nyali % Masugu % Total %Permanentagricultural land (ha)Forest cleared last 10years (ha)Previous grassland(ha)Shifted -cultivation (ha)TotalN = 1802,16 81 1,66 81 1,92 90 1,93 850,21 16 0,13 6 0,38 9 0,24 100,01 3 0 0 0,06 0 0,02 10,02 0 0,27 13 0 1 0,09 42,422,062,362,28176