Imebainishwa kuwa kuna umuhimu mkubwa wa kuwajengea uwezo watunga sera hasa Makatibu Wakuu na Wabunge kuhusu athari za matumizi mabaya ya ardhi katika maeneo ya vyanzo vya maji, Mito na kandokando ya Bahari ili kuwa na uelewa wa pamoja wa athari hizo na mna ya kukabiliana nazo kwa manufaa ya Taifa na vizazi vijavyo.

An international collaboration of 356 scientists in which Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) is a collaborator has found almost identical patterns of tree diversity across tropical forests of the world. A study of more than one million trees across 1,568 tropical locations worldwide, published in Nature, observed that 2.2% of tree species make up 50% of the total number of trees in tropical forests across Africa, the Amazon (South America), and Southeast Asia, with each continent consisting of the same proportion of a few common species and many rare species.